Example sentences of "she was simply " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not know whether she had a heart or a soul or whether she could be moved by emotion ; she was simply the Grand Mistress ! |
| 2 | I can think of a dozen men of much more recent notoriety if she was simply inventing it for some cranky reason of her own . |
| 3 | She was simply wrong for the job she had been obliged to undertake . |
| 4 | It was more likely that she was simply allowing her vivid imagination to run away with her . |
| 5 | She was not exactly a refugee from the violence of invaders like many other Anglo-Saxon women , including one whose case we shall soon encounter : she was simply a woman of royal birth being educated in a monastery awaiting a suitable marriage . |
| 6 | Now she was simply restraining Obispal , holding the disarmed man firmly at claw 's length . |
| 7 | She was simply reminding Jaq of how she might continue to be useful . |
| 8 | By then she was simply too weary to think clearly , feeling totally overwhelmed by the spontaneous display of affection from the patriotic crowd . |
| 9 | A broad and kindly lady of noble birth , Ibu ( meaning " mother " ) , as she was simply called , indulged her husband 's eccentricities , constantly tidied up after him and clearly ruled the household and the village . |
| 10 | She went into the corridor , hurrying as though she did not know very well that she was simply being transferred to another waiting chair , that the urgency of their voices bore no relation to the speed of their , or anyway her , movements . |
| 11 | Initially she was simply bewildered by this but soon she was plain angry . |
| 12 | FIRE ( a dead end ; she was simply recalling the sign , not the occasion . |
| 13 | She was simply embarrassed at being revealed to the public . |
| 14 | Unless she was simply a prize bitch , Alexandra thought . |
| 15 | When he saw the black-haired woman sitting beside the stream , he thought at first she was simply another ephemeral vision transmitted by the trees . |
| 16 | Maybe she was simply a bargirl , a cashier , an all-purpose heft-dispenser … and maybe I had already got to know her a little too well . |
| 17 | She was simply sailing back to Australia surrounded by the accumulated baggage of the last seventeen years . |
| 18 | If she kept on walking , then she was simply going to get lost . |
| 19 | She was simply filled with exasperation . |
| 20 | His life was not like hers and she was simply an outsider who had been forced to come here . |
| 21 | She had gone up to her room now as if she was simply going to sit there and wait for as long as it took , and when the plane disappeared from sight Maggie went to find her . |
| 22 | She had something she was simply bursting to tell me . |
| 23 | Clearly she was a major talent , but she was simply wrong for Hello , Dolly ! |
| 24 | She took up tennis after finding that she was simply in the way if she appeared on the film set . |
| 25 | Until he was sure that she was a professional actress , she was simply a new target , a figure of fun . |
| 26 | The question was casual but Rachel thought she detected a flicker of interest in Louise 's blue eyes and she wondered if the stories about herself and David had reached the welfare office yet or whether she was simply becoming paranoid where he was concerned . |
| 27 | Somehow she 'd known he 'd seek her out , or else she was simply too tired to register any kind of emotion at his intrusion into her dressing-room . |