Example sentences of "[num] she [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 She stays at the market for 1 hour , then starts to drive home at 40km per hour . |
| 2 | In July 1979 she moved into the 50,000 apartment and immediately set to work furnishing the rooms in a warm but simple Habitat style . |
| 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 | Between January 1939 and June 1940 she worked on the French–Spanish border to alleviate the wretchedness of the defeated Spanish Republicans , only leaving on the last boat to sail for Britain from Bordeaux . |
| 5 | Contacted initially by Metzenbaum 's staff on Sept. 4 , Hill at first wanted to provide evidence anonymously , but on Sept. 21 she agreed to the suggestion of judiciary committee chairman Joseph Biden , Democratic senator for Delaware , that she provide a sworn affidavit to the Federal Bureau of Investigation which would examine her case . |
| 6 | Her mother suggested that Sophia marry the exiled Charles II , but he was not interested , and , her pride hurt , in 1650 she moved to the court of her eldest brother Karl Ludwig , now restored to Heidelberg . |
| 7 | At 18 she moved to the east coast to study music at the prestigious Berkeley College in Boston . |
| 8 | From 1976 to 1981 she worked at the Henley Centre for Forecasting , where she was responsible for UK economics forecasts , and manager of special studies . |
| 9 | Following her husband 's death in 1976 she served on the politburo from 1978 to 1985 , and remained an influential voice within the CCP even after her formal retirement from public life in 1988 . |
| 10 | He and She can refer to the third party in either of the triangular relationships , but in Sonnet 2 He refers to the Friend 's future child , while in 3 She refers to the Friend 's mother ; in 50 and 51 He refers to the poet 's horse ! |
| 11 | In 1923–4 she campaigned against the French invasion of the Ruhr . |
| 12 | During World War I she worked at the Admiralty on various projects of national importance , including the large-scale production of acetone from starch by fermentation . |
| 13 | In 1914 she resigned from the paper because of differences with her colleagues over the issue of war , and became a member of the executive committee of the Union of Democratic Control , founded by E. D. Morel [ q.v. ] to campaign against secret diplomacy . |
| 14 | 13 She jumps off the perch to the bottom of the cage . |
| 15 | For four and five she spells from the other end and for six she again spells the letters . |
| 16 | She had been a former child actress , making her film debut at the age of four , and at twelve she appeared in the London production of The Sound of Music . |
| 17 | In 1961 she served on the Secretary of State 's working party on Standards of Ascertainment for Scottish School Children ( Degrees of Mental Handicap ) . |
| 18 | In 1917–18 she served on the committee on post-war reconstruction , where she frequently clashed with Beatrice Webb . |
| 19 | From 1897 till 1907 she taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts . |
| 20 | After a moment or two she reached for the telephone and contacted the police . |
| 21 | For a moment or two she toyed with the idea of making some excuse in order to get out of what would be an embarrassing situation . |
| 22 | In 1983 she spoke of the general election providing a ‘ choice ’ between two ways of life ; before the 1987 election she spoke of the election as the opportunity to ‘ kill off ’ left-wing socialism . |
| 23 | A wedge approach to three feet produced an eagle three at the ninth , while her solitary lapse was the four she made at the short 16th . |
| 24 | In 1947 she moved to the Laboratoire Central des Services Chemiques de l'État in Paris , where , in a series of beautifully executed investigations using X-ray diffraction techniques , she discovered the fundamental distinction between carbons that turn into graphite on heating and those that do not , and related this difference to the chemical constituents of the material from which the chars were made . |
| 25 | At 19 she went into the family firm and worked her way through the ranks to become the most vehement defender of her father and his girlie magazines . |
| 26 | From 1861 to 1863 she studied at the Kensington School of Art . |
| 27 | In 1793 she replied to the politically radical Letters from France of Helen Maria Williams [ q.v. ] with Letters on the Female Mind , its Powers and Pursuits . |
| 28 | At a quarter past seven she got off the bus in Bath worrying that he might stand her up . |
| 29 | From 1941 to 1944 she served on the Cambridge University women 's appointments board . |