Example sentences of "in [adj] she [vb past] " 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 | In 1850 she discovered she had cancer of the uterus . |
| 18 | After a three year stint at the Conservative Research Department , in 1986 she became head of the policy unit at the Institute of Directors . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | In 1986 she contacted her local authority for help ; it was then , she says , that her life changed for the worse . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Following her father 's death in 1866 she carried on his pioneering work on the development of the screw propeller for steamships . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | After Wordsworth 's marriage she continued to live in the same house ; in 1829 she became seriously ill , suffering from arteriosclerosis . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In 1886 she became secretary to the Women 's Protective and Provident League ( founded by Emma Patterson ) but resigned in 1889 when events in London 's East End convinced her that a more radical , socialist approach to women 's trade unionism was needed . |
| 30 | Indeed the authorities became so concerned that in 1935 she became the first cartoon character to be censored . |