Example sentences of "in [adj] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in 1934 she suffered a stroke and died 10 January peacefully in her sleep . |
| 2 | After the third European Bridge Championships were held there in 1934 she turned professional . |
| 3 | In vain she had pleaded and begged him to use the train . |
| 4 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |
| 5 | When she arrived in England in 1568 she claimed to be seeking the protection of her cousin Elizabeth , but at the same time began scheming for support in her claims to both thrones , having earlier told a priest that she ‘ trusted to find many friends when time did serve , especially among those of the old religion ’ . |
| 6 | In 1891 she taught at a finishing school in Hanover for six months and , after her return to England , at a school in Finsbury Park . |
| 7 | In 1891 she married George Keppel , third son of William Coutts Keppel , seventh Earl of Albemarle [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | Her initial training was in printmaking and her interest in social welfare in 1891 she moved to Berlin where her husband was a doctor in a poor area of the city combined in her great early cycle of six prints ‘ A Weaver 's Rebellion ’ ( completed 1898 ) . |
| 9 | In 1891 she moved to Ambleside and started the House of Education to prepare for the teaching and care of children . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Only the grandmother seemed above it all , but in private she confided that the atmosphere of bickering recrimination made her feel sad and insecure . |
| 12 | ‘ Ithell Colquhoun thus spoke for future generations of women artists when in 1943 she stressed the need to escape from gender barriers . |
| 13 | In 1794 she began learning Arabic and Persian from her brother 's oriental dictionary ; in 1796 she studied Hebrew from a Bible belonging to Henrietta Bowdler 's mother . |
| 14 | In 1948 she had opened almost identical telegrams . |
| 15 | When she retired from the RCM in 1948 she went on to run the Violet Melchet Infant Welfare Centre near Sloane Square , a job she held for the next twenty years . |
| 16 | In 1948 she joined the Department of Employment in the Ministry of Labour . |
| 17 | ‘ It is so very tragic and it really does tug at your heart to think of the state that her poor mother must be in that she feels she can no longer look after her child . ’ |
| 18 | In 1850 she discovered she had cancer of the uterus . |
| 19 | After a three year stint at the Conservative Research Department , in 1986 she became head of the policy unit at the Institute of Directors . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | In 1986 she contacted her local authority for help ; it was then , she says , that her life changed for the worse . |
| 22 | ‘ In 1986 she stops over in New York for an exhibition and at the same time visits two postmodern ‘ simulationist ’ painter , Philip Taaffe and Ross Bleckner , in their studios . |
| 23 | In 1986 she joined the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) , first as programme manager of the electronics sciences division of the Defense Sciences Office and , later as deputy director of the office , where she negotiated the agreement with Gazelle ( see left ) . |
| 24 | In 1866 she went to St Thomas 's nursing school as an observer for four months and the following year studied at the Kaiserswerth Institute on the Rhine , under Pastor Theodor Fliedner , subsequently visiting many hospitals in Europe . |
| 25 | Following her father 's death in 1866 she carried on his pioneering work on the development of the screw propeller for steamships . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In 1794 she began learning Arabic and Persian from her brother 's oriental dictionary ; in 1796 she studied Hebrew from a Bible belonging to Henrietta Bowdler 's mother . |
| 28 | In 1794 she published her Collection of Poems and Fables , by which time she had suffered a number of domestic calamities , including the death of a child and apparently the imprisonment of her husband . |
| 29 | After Wordsworth 's marriage she continued to live in the same house ; in 1829 she became seriously ill , suffering from arteriosclerosis . |
| 30 | She was educated at home by a German governess ; then , after keeping house for her brothers , in 1886 she went to Newnham College , Cambridge , where she and another were the first women to gain first-class honours in the Cambridge moral sciences tripos in 1889 . |