Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] in [adj] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Until her marriage in 1903 she worked in post offices in Buckinghamshire , Essex , and Hampshire . |
| 3 | On the death of her father in 1866 she suffered physical and mental breakdown , confiding in a letter that it was her religion that held her up . |
| 4 | After the death of her father in 1891 she withdrew entirely into private life , devoting herself almost obsessively to the care of her mother , even though the latter soon came out of retirement to become a royal lady-in-waiting . |
| 5 | After the deaths of her father in 1789 and her mother in 1793 she remained at Twickenham , living with her scholarly brother Henry and a friend , Margaret Mitchell . |
| 6 | Her husband did , however , receive in 1604 a lucrative patent for the weighing of hay and straw , but on his death in 1616 she surrendered the patent to an enterprising brother-in-law , Innocent Lanier . |