Example sentences of "she was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes she was fiery , or she could be ice cool : qualities that intrigued the male in Angus , although they disturbed the businessman . |
| 2 | She was fiery by temperament , Lisa had always known that , and he , a Cancerian to his fingertips , was all shifting , unfathomable water . |
| 3 | When I arrived , she urged me inside and closed the door , and I could see that she was breathless with fear . |
| 4 | He suddenly seized her under the armpits and swung her round and round , until she was breathless . |
| 5 | She was breathless , like a girl who had danced every dance . |
| 6 | She was breathless . |
| 7 | He caught her towards him and kissed her until she was breathless , and even in her daze she heard Candace 's high heels clicking angrily across the back of the hall . |
| 8 | His mouth was warm and firm , hungry , moving against hers with complete command so that when he lifted his head and looked down at her with glittering eyes she was breathless . |
| 9 | She was breathless by the time she reached the farm . |
| 10 | She was breathless when she did catch up with him outside on the front doorstep . |
| 11 | She was breathless , shivering with cold as she hid herself behind the curtains of the four-poster . |
| 12 | How could she tell him she was n't shocked at all ; she was breathless because of his proximity ? |
| 13 | She was breathless with the emotions his kisses had aroused in her . |
| 14 | As she turned her back on him , she was breathless with rage , lying staring at the darkened wall of the cabin , aware he had completely turned her confrontation to his advantage and beaten her hands down . |
| 15 | The saxophone took off again , Damian flicked her away from him , spun her back , and she was breathless with excitement , her body his to command — and how he commanded it ! — as Jerry Hall began to shout like a Spanish gypsy , while a harmonica came rolling in to harden the beat . |
| 16 | It was only then that Nell returned once more to dominate his thoughts , and the other weird creature she was intent upon contacting . |
| 17 | However , it was obvious that she was intent on making a spectacle of herself . |
| 18 | In a few hours she would come face to face once more with that same man who was responsible for his death and this time she was intent on making absolutely sure that what had been a teenage crush on her part remained just that . |
| 19 | For herself she was relieved she did n't have to struggle to harness their zippy , anarchic minds any more to a future of filing and fast food shoppers — till for Christ 's sake let's get married and turn on the telly and have some peace . |
| 20 | She was relieved , for the sake of the parish , when he rang her up in 1940 to say that he was leaving . |
| 21 | She was relieved to hear the tone . |
| 22 | She was relieved to see no sign of Pen , before whom she would not have wished to speak freely . |
| 23 | Well , she had never been happy with him , so she was relieved . |
| 24 | Burnett 's favourite preparation for the treatment of uterine tumours was Aurum Muriaticum Natronatum so not having the LMI gave her the 6C potency in a 10ml dropper and within 3 days she was relieved of the discomfort on walking and standing which it seems reasonable to assume is due to the fibroid shrinking . |
| 25 | It was a hard walk to the mountain top , and she was relieved he had selected a pastime which did not require her participation . |
| 26 | She was relieved when the New Year arrived and things returned to normal . |
| 27 | She wriggled her skirt down over her thighs and when she risked a look she was relieved to discover Edward had done his trousers up again . |
| 28 | But she was relieved to see Patrick thrive at last now that Maggie had been weaned off gin , and when Rosa 's sixth baby arrived she helped with it , gaining experience for when her own time came . |
| 29 | She was relieved , I saw . |
| 30 | She told me that she was relieved to know that there was a reason for it , even if the root cause had occurred so long ago . |