Example sentences of "[adj] she [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 she left the mission to found the Esperance Working Girls ' Club with Mary Neal , and in 1897 she founded the Maison Esperance , a co-operative dressmaking business . |
| 2 | From 1893 to 1895 she visited the Church of Scotland mission in Blantyre , Nyasaland , to do linguistic work and prepare school textbooks , and Maritzburg , Natal , where she acquired Zulu and Afrikaans . |
| 3 | For this she blames the record companies , run by yuppies with no feel for showbiz . |
| 4 | To make doubly sure of this she turned the key in the lock as she went out . |
| 5 | In doing this she demonstrated the way in which , having once made contact with one 's feelings , it becomes possible to convert pain into creative action . |
| 6 | From this she drew the policy and with it lots of pawn tickets . |
| 7 | For this she required the £1m which was awarded her . |
| 8 | She glanced sharply at him , and although his expression remained inscrutable she had the fleeting impression that his reasons involved a woman . |
| 9 | In 1985 she became the founder exhibitions director of Manchester 's Cornerhouse Centre ; photography being included in the programming of shows . |
| 10 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd took principal charge of UK policy pending Thatcher 's return from a holiday ; at her first press conference on the crisis , on Aug. 21 , she said in London that the purpose of sending UK troops was " to get the invaders out of Kuwait " , while in Helsinki on Aug. 30 she criticized the " patchy and disappointing " response of other European countries apart from France . |
| 11 | Aloysia made her debut in Vienna the same year , and in 1780 she married the court actor and painter Joseph Lange . |
| 12 | 2 She raises the knee into a cocked position . |
| 13 | well she came down for Keith 's sake , she came down to Bournemouth for holidays and erm like it so much she brought the company . |
| 14 | I did not find out how much she sold the garments for because she left me standing outside , but she always looked pleased when she emerged from these visits . |
| 15 | It would be humiliating if he ever guessed exactly how she felt about him , how much she envied the other woman . |
| 16 | ‘ Maire was telling me how much she liked the party , Mother . |
| 17 | In 1963 she joined the BBC and worked on everything from Steptoe and Son to That Was The Week That Was , before reaching her real ambition to work on Playschool . |
| 18 | Soon after Mrs Thatcher came to power in 1979 she disbanded the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth , set up as a permanent body by the Labour government in 1974 to report periodically on changes in distribution trends . |
| 19 | In 1874 she married the Revd Elkanah Armitage , Nonconformist minister , also one of fourteen children , son of William Armitage , JP , of the manufacturing firm of Armitage & Rigby . |
| 20 | In 1874 she planned the Association of Headmistresses in order that head teachers should ‘ hold conferences occasionally in order to know what we ought to assert and what surrender ’ . |
| 21 | Finzi 's sinuous melodies for the solo instrument are made to sound as though the soloist is improvising them , and with extreme daring she uses the widest possible dynamic range down to a whispered pianissimo that might be inaudible in a concert-hall . |
| 22 | ‘ Ithell Colquhoun thus spoke for future generations of women artists when in 1943 she stressed the need to escape from gender barriers . |
| 23 | In 1948 she joined the Department of Employment in the Ministry of Labour . |
| 24 | One feminist , Mrs Wolstenholme-Elmy ( who as a young woman determined to follow Mary Wollstonecraft 's example and live with her lover , until on becoming pregnant she took the advice of fellow suffragists and married ) accepted the idea that menstruation was essentially pathological , although she also argued that it was caused by men 's brutality . |
| 25 | Shortly after eleven she heard the doorbell ring , then he groaning of the lift and a soft clatter as the grille door closed . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | On 16 May 1568 she crossed the firth to land in England at the ‘ lytle prety fyscher town ’ of Workington and appeal , fatefully , for help from her cousin Elizabeth . |
| 28 | Indeed the authorities became so concerned that in 1935 she became the first cartoon character to be censored . |
| 29 | I could of done my work today though Kim and Richard came over when I was poorly she got the duster straight out she said nanny I 'll polish the furniture because I knows you get upset . |
| 30 | Once Becky felt sure the ink was dry she closed the books and put them back in her satchel while Charlie prepared to lock up the baker 's shop . |