Example sentences of "[num] she [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1616 and 1629 she bore eight children , and with her husband was active in a Shrewsbury conventicle . |
| 2 | After Thebes swallowed up Plataia in 427 she controlled four Boiotarchs and 240 councillors . |
| 3 | During the nineteen-twenties she spent some time in London , and after her second husband , Maurice Platner , died in 1929 she moved to Johannesburg , where she died in 1932 . |
| 4 | In 1892 she became senior lady assistant commissioner to the royal commission on labour , investigating women 's work in Ireland , in the Black Country iron industry , and in London public houses . |
| 5 | After a brief engagement to a man later convicted for bigamy and fraud , in 1929 she married American-born Robert Woodward Hathaway ( second of three sons of Charles Hathaway , a Wall Street banker ) . |
| 6 | At the end of the " thirties she had other things on her mind besides horses and cooking , dogs , bantams , geese and Love Eternal . |
| 7 | There was there was a case of one girl who back in nineteen sixty eight she killed two boys when she was eleven . |
| 8 | After she retired from the headship of her department in 1920 she gave much time to various women 's groups and to societies for the promotion of women 's interests . |
| 9 | During the 1930s and 1940s she helped German refugees from Nazism . |
| 10 | In 1921 she investigated differential operators in quantum mechanics by abstracting their essential properties , taking these properties as axioms and building all consequences thereupon . |
| 11 | At Chester in England in October 1807 she spent two days editing a slim volume of letters addressed to her by ‘ Several Africans and Indians ’ , including a black bishop , proto-feminist Indian women , and a convicted felon . |
| 12 | In 1960 she won golden opinions in Britain in Leonid Spigelgass 's study of autumnal courtship , A Majority of One ( Phoenix ) , in which she starred opposite Robert Morley . |
| 13 | At the impressionable age of fourteen she spent twelve days in Geneva , and soon fell under Malan 's spell : |
| 14 | Anti-German feeling in World War I caused Louise Matthaei to leave the academic world in 1916 and in 1918 she became assistant editor to Leonard Woolf [ q.v. ] on the International Review . |
| 15 | Between 1894 and 1902 she bought twenty-four paintings from Colnaghi , always through Berenson . |
| 16 | Following the outbreak of the South African war in 1899 she gave private classes in London in these languages — classes which were transferred to King 's College , London , in 1901 ; in 1910 these were formally recognized by the University of London , the first British university to promote the teaching of Bantu languages ( Swahili had been taught in Berlin since 1887 ) . |
| 17 | The publisher Grant Richards encouraged her to turn to novel writing , and between 1907 and 1916 she produced six books which are the perfect expression of her personality : frivolous and witty , but with an underlying sense of melancholy . |
| 18 | At age 29 she underwent successful parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism with nodular hyperplasia . |
| 19 | By 1774 she had 58 ships of the line : she is said to have possessed 72 in 1789 . |
| 20 | At the age of 38 she suffered premature menopause , and her health then deteriorated very rapidly . |
| 21 | In 1966 she married German playboy Gunther Sachs , following a whirlwind romance . |
| 22 | When the PS returned to power in mid-1988 she became European Affairs Minister-Delegate but resigned in October 1990 [ see p. 37784 ] , declaring France to be " in danger of being undermined by a lack of industrial motivation " . |
| 23 | At 109 and 110 she flew first class on Concorde to New York . |
| 24 | 15 She had good reason to suspect that it would , for long before the 1924 show opened , she had decided to try to convince the critics to change their ideas about her work by changing the nature of what she exhibited . |
| 25 | From the start of the movement in 1907 she held high office , and later served as president ( 1929–35 ) . |
| 26 | In 1721 she had 124 ships of the line and 105 smaller vessels , of which roughly a quarter had been built since 1714 . |
| 27 | In 1773 she had 66 ships of the line : by 1780 , when she had 81 , she was stronger at sea than ever before in her history . |
| 28 | In 1889 she became general secretary of the Guild , which then had fifty-one branches and a membership of between 1,700 and 1,800 . |
| 29 | Between 1906 and 1936 she published five volumes of poetry , seven novels , and a number of short stories . |
| 30 | In the years following 1868 she had several landscapes and religious pictures exhibited at the Royal Academy . |