Example sentences of "[num] she [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst with the Boston Museum Stock Company , in 1885 she married an intense fellow actor , George Richmond Parks , the son of John A. Parks , a hotelier . |
| 2 | In the early years of her reign Elizabeth was faced with an urgent crisis on her northern border , and in 1562–4 she pursued an expensive adventure into France . |
| 3 | In '86/'87 she underwent an extensive refit which improved the yacht both aesthetically and functionally . |
| 4 | At thirteen she had an extensive collection of Esther Williams photos in glamorous swimsuits and the most advanced information available about what to do with boys . |
| 5 | In 1877 she opened a small chapel in her house in Cottenham Park . |
| 6 | In 1924 she published a short memoir of her husband . |
| 7 | In 1979 she made a new will ; after making changes to some specific bequests , she again appointed her husband to receive the income from her father 's estate . |
| 8 | Soon after Mrs Thatcher came to power in 1979 she disbanded the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth , set up as a permanent body by the Labour government in 1974 to report periodically on changes in distribution trends . |
| 9 | He says she is still the MP she was ; in 1986 she told a hard left conference that ‘ if they come for Militant in the morning , they 'll come for the rest of us in the afternoon ’ . |
| 10 | On the twenty eight of September nineteen eighty eight she had a major operation on her left wrist . |
| 11 | When Sarella pushed open the big old doors of the refectory a few minutes after eight she found the high-domed room beyond her deserted . |
| 12 | In 1984 she won the prestigious City of London painting prize . |
| 13 | In 1920 she sat the competitive examination to enter the International Labour Office in Geneva and joined its agricultural service . |
| 14 | In August 1975 she produced a consultative document which was regarded by the medical profession at large — although socialist supporters in that profession did not share the view — as a declaration of war . |
| 15 | When the family moved to Althorp in 1975 she had the perfect auditorium . |
| 16 | But in 1556 she instituted a devastating new scheme , a perpetual tax . |
| 17 | In 1918 she became the chief woman officer of the Labour party , in which role she was particularly active in pressing for improved working-class housing estates to include community centres with nurseries , restaurants , libraries , concert halls , and home-help services , all of which she saw as not merely desirable in themselves but essential for the emancipation of working-class housewives . |
| 18 | In May 1952 she obtained the superb patterns of the B form which now grace the textbooks , and which J. D. Watson saw early in 1953 . |
| 19 | In 1902 she had a much-publicized exchange of views with Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree [ q.v. ] on the extent and causes of primary poverty . |
| 20 | From 1913 she held a two-year research fellowship at Newnham , while continuing to teach at King 's . |
| 21 | On graduation in 1899 she entered the Imperial Ballet , bypassing the corps de ballet and rising through the ranks to ballerina in 1905 and prima ballerina a year later . |
| 22 | In January 1976 she had an arranged marriage to a cousin Aszal who had settled in Britain and on October 20 that year the couple arrived in Britain . |
| 23 | In 1977 she published an autobiographical sketch entitled ‘ Self-Confrontation and the Writer ’ in which she posits her authorial identity as a separate person whom she calls ‘ John ’ . |
| 24 | When Beatrice visited the canteen in October 1914 she found a good deal of atmosphere , although there was no beer or wine . |
| 25 | In 1923 she set a British ladies ' record for Thames swimming ( 10 hrs. 45 min . ) . |
| 26 | All we know twenty past five she threw a wobbly and . |
| 27 | In 1871 she married the American journalist and painter William James Stillman , widower , former husband of Laura Macks , and father of two daughters and a son , who died in 1874 . |
| 28 | In 1982 she found the right spot , in the harsh thornbush country of the Laikipiak Maasai , who live on the northern slopes of Mt Kenya . |
| 29 | On Feb. 28 she joined the Supreme Council 's economic commission , although there were suggestions that she intended to stand in opposition to the administration of President Vytautas Landsbergis . |
| 30 | In 1900 she met the American collector Samuel Bancroft , who became her foremost patron . |