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 | Indeed the authorities became so concerned that in 1935 she became the first cartoon character to be censored . |
11 | On the twenty eight of September nineteen eighty eight she had a major operation on her left wrist . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | In 1984 she won the prestigious City of London painting prize . |
14 | In 1920 she sat the competitive examination to enter the International Labour Office in Geneva and joined its agricultural service . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | When the family moved to Althorp in 1975 she had the perfect auditorium . |
17 | But in 1556 she instituted a devastating new scheme , a perpetual tax . |
18 | Good God , she was only fourteen she had a deeper voice than |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | In 1902 she had a much-publicized exchange of views with Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree [ q.v. ] on the extent and causes of primary poverty . |
22 | From 1913 she held a two-year research fellowship at Newnham , while continuing to teach at King 's . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | In 1928 she became the first person ever to swim the Straits of Gibraltar ( in 12 hrs. 50 min. ) , braving the perils of whirlpools , currents , and sharks . |
26 | In 1928 she published the first general history of the women 's suffrage movement , The Cause , and in 1931 Millicent Garrett Fawcett . |
27 | 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 ’ . |
28 | When Beatrice visited the canteen in October 1914 she found a good deal of atmosphere , although there was no beer or wine . |
29 | In 1923 she set a British ladies ' record for Thames swimming ( 10 hrs. 45 min . ) . |
30 | All we know twenty past five she threw a wobbly and . |