Example sentences of "[subord] she [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trollope evidently shares Jane Austen 's preference for past community to present isolation ; but where she felt those sites to be alternatives , he knows that the first is a part of history . |
| 2 | Then she was driven back to the squat , where she spent all afternoon putting up her curtains where none had been , or replacing curtains for which she had no feeling . |
| 3 | Belvoir was not her only house , for her late husband the 9th Duke restored Haddon Hall where she took particular pleasure in the rose terraces . |
| 4 | She was educated at Handsworth Ladies College and at Newnham College , Cambridge , where she took both parts of the natural sciences tripos ( 1887 , 1888 ) , obtaining first-class honours . |
| 5 | The last years of her life were divided between Bermuda and Plandome , Long Island , where she built herself an Italian-style villa and where she died 29 October 1924 . |
| 6 | Rosalba tried to respond , turning to her friend and patting down a curl or two round her face ; then she adjusted the combs which held her friend 's hair behind her ears , where she wore small gold hoops . |
| 7 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , a former inspector of schools and senior education officer , has always joked that nothing could have prepared her more for being thrown into the deep end than leaving Cromer , where her father was a cattle dealer , for St Hilda 's College , Oxford , where she read modern languages . |
| 8 | After Oxford , Merck joined the staff of Time Out , where she wrote impenetrable reviews and helped to organize the strike which came close to destroying the magazine . |
| 9 | She had to go to the Garfield Centre , where she taught one day a week , to see the inmates perform their Christmas entertainment . |
| 10 | This is Eavan 's reward for a cool and competent victory in the national championship at Royal Belfast , where she beat 20-year-old Aideen Rogers in the final ( one hole ) . |
| 11 | Her own first excavation was at the Devil 's Tower , Gibraltar , where she found Neanderthal skull fragments . |
| 12 | It has been disclosed that within a short time of leaving Aberdeen Royal Infirmary yesterday where she stayed three nights and underwent an operation to remove a piece of fish lodged in her throat she was entertaining guests . |
| 13 | The doctor sent her to hospital where she stayed some time , and had X-ray examinations , and I was so worried . |
| 14 | Lesley , who is single , was taken straight to the operating theatre where she underwent immediate surgery on severe injuries to her stomach . |
| 15 | Mrs Easby , 58 , has returned to her house in Minors Crescent , Darlington , from Harefield Hospital , Middlesex , where she underwent life-saving surgery to replace one of her lungs . |
| 16 | She was rushed to Northampton General Hospital where she underwent several hours of surgery , including a tracheotomy operation . |
| 17 | Then he remembered that the cottage had been sold , the money placed in trust for his father 's mother , the income paying the fees of the nursing home where she sat all day rocking herself in a wheelchair — Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 18 | The first woman controller of Radio 2 has risen from the BBC typing pool , where she started 32 years ago . |
| 19 | In 1876 she went to Girton College where she gained third-class honours in the mathematical tripos in 1880 , and showed her flair for experimentation and designing scientific instruments . |
| 20 | She persuaded John to open a school at 226 West 72nd Street which incorporated an office where negotiations to import Tillers could be conducted , and a rehearsal studio where she trained American pupils as well as the troupes . |
| 21 | His youngest daughter Margaret married John Hastings Earl of Pembroke in 1359 , and although she died two years later , Pembroke remained high in favour at court and , with royal encouragement , embarked on a plan to reunite the inheritance of his ancestor William Marshall , which had twice been partitioned in the previous century and a half . |
| 22 | she said it 's hard enough for people with jobs to exist today without all this and she 's gone back to college on the flexi idea , erm , brush up her typing because she said , now whether she 's thinking of future years , she said when she left here that time , although she got that job she said it was n't easy , she said because I had no bits of paper as such , although when I did the test I passed it , she said it was n't simple , so she 's doing |
| 23 | Their neighbour , the writer Julia Strachey , found them " congenial souls and seeing them does cheer one up " , although she recalled one evening when Eliot suddenly emerged in a dressing gown apparently " utterly distraught and Strindbergian , with his at-all-times remarkable manner accentuated into something ghostly and weird . |
| 24 | Although she had little time to help organize the newspaper project , as she buzzed around discussing it with friends and jotting down ideas it began to get up steam . |
| 25 | Although she had pronounced likes and dislikes for the various members of her class she was perhaps the best teacher in the school , and at the end of four years she had hardly any failures in the final examinations . |
| 26 | Stevie might have tended to exaggerate , but although she had rich parents , she worked as a waitress in Los Angeles to support Lindsey , and they roughed it around a bit . |
| 27 | But although she escaped personal attack , the reviews of the £20 million blockbuster were far from ‘ perfick ’ . |
| 28 | His widow , Jeanne , held the Joinvilles ' English lands but , like Aymer de Valence , agreed to renounce her claim to a part of the Lusignan inheritance ( 1308–10 ) , although she held four Poitevin and Limousin lordships in reversion until her death in April 1323 . |
| 29 | Although she showed little interest in my academic life — her energies were spent in the pursuit of foxes and Guards officers — she was always brimful of common sense on every subject under the sun , not to mention having constant contact with a string of eligible young men who seemed to arrive in a never-ending convoy at the front door of 97 Chelsea Terrace . |
| 30 | The subject of Ireland was banned in her house ; she employed no Irish servants , imported no Irish goods — although she used Irish girls in her brothels — allowed no Irish books or papers into her house . |