Example sentences of "in the [adj] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1960s she and husband Harry bought a Whitby cottage as a weekend retreat . |
| 2 | Virginia Luling spent five months in 1989 revisiting the town in Somalia where in the 1960's she first did here fieldwork as an anthropologist . |
| 3 | In the 1960's she was a student at St Hugh 's College Oxford . |
| 4 | In the latter she wasted little space on such theoretical concerns as the position of monarchy in modern society , concentrating instead on the more trivial aspects of palace life . |
| 5 | Whereas in the 1780s she produced twice as much as her closest competitor , Great Britain , by the end of the Crimean War she had been overtaken by Belgium , France was exceeding her output threefold , and Britain no less than fourteenfold . |
| 6 | In the distant she heard the sound of an ice cream van with it 's with it 's jingly little tune playing and she thought oh , I 'd love an ice cream ! |
| 7 | Suddenly in the thirties she announced that she was both too thin and too old to dance any more . |
| 8 | Starting in the 1920s she became increasingly interested in floral morphology ; in a long series of papers in the Annals of Botany and the New Phytologist she recorded her observations on vascular and carpelary structure in a wide range of flowers . |
| 9 | In the Seventies she made a come-back and played to full houses at the Institute of Contemporary Arts , re-coloured and with some discreet censorship . |
| 10 | I was born in the seventies she might be in this one . |
| 11 | For a period in the 1950s she flirted with Roman Catholicism , and whether her Catholic point of view made her see moral issues exclusively within a religious framework , or whether she simply did not share the same experience as English-born-and-raised writers who faced the dissolution of their class system is difficult to judge . |
| 12 | In the 1770s she had envisaged the abolition of serfdom in Bohemia , Joseph merely its amelioration : his attitude probably contributed to the outbreak in the province of the peasant revolt of 1775 . |
| 13 | In the tenth she was beginning to receive visitors of standing , and a golden crown and jewels were added to her coat . |
| 14 | Early in the 1890s she went to work under Mrs Hugh Price Hughes at the West London Mission . |
| 15 | In the 1880s she and her sisters ( one of whom was Constance Garnett , q.v. ) moved to Fitzroy Street , London . |
| 16 | In the 1940s she first came to Scotland . |