Example sentences of "[adj] she [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1903 she married in Paris Major John MacBride [ q.v. ] , |
| 2 | Until her marriage in 1903 she worked in post offices in Buckinghamshire , Essex , and Hampshire . |
| 3 | She and her sister inherited the Treffry estates in Cornwall from their brother in 1779 , and after her husband 's death in 1786 she lived in the family home , Place , at Fowey . |
| 4 | It is certainly one of the ironies for Britain that the more thorough her privatisation programme in the 1980s ( including gas , electricity , air transport and telecommunications ) , the more disadvantaged she became in the argument for pan-European liberalisation of trade . |
| 5 | It takes my breath away , so although she is half asleep she gets in first : ‘ Did you get through ? ’ |
| 6 | After that she stood in a hazy dream , listening to the words that made them husband and wife . |
| 7 | From 1887 to 1891 she lived in Paris , where her father was ambassador . |
| 8 | She knew very little about surgery and nothing about childbirth , but she had a fund of common sense , and the moment she had pushed through the useless , wailing women downstairs , and seen the squalid room in which Dr Neil was working , she had begun to dredge up what little she knew in order to help him . |
| 9 | so she 's glad she went in the end ? |
| 10 | The season is not yet ripe for the hawthorn flowers , but these … these she sends in their place , again the whiteness of her purity . |
| 11 | These radios and other stores were brought in by the small steamer Kuru , which was fitted with a device in her stack to prevent the tell-tale streamer of fumes ; these she released in occasional puffs . |
| 12 | These she kept in an ivory box , and the gods ate from them as often as they wished to renew their youth . |
| 13 | These she slipped in her pocket , then she tidied the stuff away . |
| 14 | Never a woman to keep her thoughts to herself , she told him how comfortable she felt in his company . |
| 15 | I think he will make sure she stays in France . |
| 16 | fell in love with her , immortalizing her in verse ; in 1902 she appeared in his play Cathleen ni Houlihan . |
| 17 | All she got in reply was a smile and a shake of the head . |
| 18 | All she succeeded in doing was knocking it farther over the slithering groundsheet . |
| 19 | She shot him an angry look , but all she received in return was a derisively raised eyebrow , and , when Claudine came back to their table and pulled up a chair with the ease of a spoiled favourite , Alain gave her all his attention and left Jenna to try to pull Marguerite back into some sort of pleasure at this irritating treat . |
| 20 | What a pity she did not discover that all she needed in the first place to remove the ‘ writer 's cramp ’ was to rest her right elbow on the table when writing instead of letting it hang over the edge without support ! |
| 21 | Then at the end of the century Britain , fearing for her own security in the trans-Pacific sea-lanes , swapped rights to Tongan waters with those she had in Samoa , giving Samoan trading rights to Germany and the United States , and keeping Tonga 's for the Empire . |
| 22 | In suggesting the rule is an inalienable part of the language , Dale Spender ironically assists those she criticises in making their sexism look natural , when she ought to be exposing it as a cultural construct . |
| 23 | But her busiest years were those she spent in Tyre from 1947 to 1965 . |
| 24 | On May 29 she arrived in Karachi for emergency talks with the Sind Chief Minister , Aftab Shahban Mirani , the Governor of Sind , Fakhruddin Ibrahim , and the Army Chief of Staff , Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg . |
| 25 | One said last week : ‘ She 's such a sweet person that one day when she thought we looked tired and hungry she ordered in pizzas . ’ |
| 26 | During 1795–6 she engaged in a one-sided correspondence with the radical William Godwin , who had taken over the role vacated by Eccles . |
| 27 | Though she was dry-eyed she looked in great pain . |
| 28 | In 1766 she arrived in London to become one of the leading figures in the art world of London , not only proving remarkably successful as a portrait painter , but winning high esteem in the most prestigious form of painting — history painting , namely large-scale compositions based on historical and mythological subjects which provided a lesson in heroism , tragedy or morality . |
| 29 | At first she hovered in the farmyard , then she wandered over to the stables and sat on the outside steps up to Louis 's workroom . |
| 30 | At first she sat in silence , stirring her tea as though to get it thoroughly stirred was of the utmost importance . |