Example sentences of "the [adj] year she " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the eight years she 's been showing the plants she 's won hundreds of awards . |
| 2 | In the following year she is reincarnated , but into wood , not flesh and blood : she becomes furniture , a cross between a throne and a commode , her mask-like head and rigid hand fixed to the chair back , her wig suggested by curly iron coat hooks and carved wooden scrolls and flourishes . |
| 3 | Later , and in recognition of her own achievements , Sophie Green was awarded a scholarship to attend a summer course at Bryn Mawr College , Pennsylvania in 1928 and in the following year she became a co-opted member of the Kettering Education Committee . |
| 4 | The following year she was made a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths , and in 1986 a Lady Liveryman . |
| 5 | The following year she and the Shah were divorced . |
| 6 | The following year she published Letters and Essays , Moral and Miscellaneous . |
| 7 | In 1697 she made a tour of the north and of Kent and in the following year she made her ‘ Great Journey to Newcastle and to Cornwall ’ . |
| 8 | The following year she went to New York , to a large party given by Bloomingdales to show off four rooms decorated in ‘ Laura Ashley ’ fabrics . |
| 9 | She told me that the previous year she had confided to an American friend in Rome that the two people who most fascinated her in the world were Albert Schweitzer and Herbert von Karajan ; and a year later she was sitting in an empty hall with Walter Legge , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , and Herbert von Karajan listening to a private recital on the organ by Albert Schweitzer . |
| 10 | The previous year she had read about energy-efficient homes — ‘ being Australian , I ca n't bear being cold , ’ she says . |
| 11 | The previous year she had produced a lovely baby boy called Tom and despite great efforts to reduce her weight , nothing seemed to work because all the diets left her feeling hungry . |
| 12 | The previous year she had amused herself with Greg Farrel , one of the agricultural students who had come to help with the harvest . |
| 13 | Alice Cox was later to swear on oath that , for the three years she had known Laura , she was only visited by one man other than Charles . |
| 14 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |
| 15 | There had been presents and people who had not bothered with her much during the ten years she had worked there became friendly . |
| 16 | She was trying to forge permanent links between France and Scotland because only then could the house of Valois survive against the monstrous growth of Hapsburg power , centred on Spain and the Empire , controlling the Netherlands and , in the very year she became regent , clutching England into its maw with the marriage of Philip and Mary . |
| 17 | Despite Mrs Agathangelou 's determination to remain English , the twenty-three years she had spent in Greece had left their mark . |
| 18 | She had had fewer than a dozen poems published in magazines — usually small , regional ones — during the twenty-five years she had been writing . |
| 19 | Mrs Joel said that the first year she did it she used almost all privet , as she was frightened of running out of material half way through and she knew there was always plenty of that around . |
| 20 | During the first year she did n't have to work nights . |
| 21 | It was now ten years since he had died , and during the first year she had herself pushed the handcart out almost every day for , except for young Ben , she was on her own . |
| 22 | But I mean for the first year she wo n't be in , if she goes into student , she 'll be in college |
| 23 | Well I mean for the first year she wo n't be in if she goes in as a student she 'll be in college . |
| 24 | Budd 's tome Zola , written for her , pours out the turmoil and blame for the five years she spent trying to run with a foot in two worlds . |
| 25 | The intrepid lady traveller Celia Fiennes had a near miss when her horse was nearly sucked into a dyke near Ely in 1698 ; and in the same year she took care to avoid Martin Mere in Lancashire , ‘ that as the proverb sayes has parted many a man and his mare indeed ’ . |
| 26 | Two years later in Ilchester , Somerset , she was again imprisoned , and the same year she was fined £280 for non-attendance at the local Anglican church . |
| 27 | She was divorced in 1934 and in the same year she married the journalist Alaric Jacob , in whose Scenes from a Bourgeois Life ( 1949 ) she appears as ‘ Miranda Ireton ’ . |
| 28 | At the Northern Championships the same year she won the doubles and reached the singles final , in which she extended Maud Watson , the reigning Wimbledon champion , to 8–6 7–5 . |
| 29 | With a sense of shock Harriet realised that in the last hours Paula had become more of a stranger to her than she had ever been during the twenty years she had believed her dead . |
| 30 | ‘ It is true that in the eighteen years she has been here I have never heard her speak . |