Example sentences of "she was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The whole bar was up on its feet to watch even before she had finished laying down the opening phrases ; by the time she was into the full fury of the aria , with its demanding coloratura decorations , its elaborate breathing technique and its famous placing of the pauses , we were all applauding and whistling .
2 When she reached the summit , she was into the full brunt of the gale-force wind .
3 Fond though she was of the other girl , she could n't take much more of this .
4 She had never been so aware of anyone as she was of the powerful man who had entered her life so abruptly .
5 She was unbearably aware of the tensile strength of his incipient beard beneath the shaven smoothness of his jaw , just as she was of the aroused hardness of his body , controlled , contained but testifying to his rampant masculinity in a way that was driving her to abandon the last remaining threads of self-control .
6 Once she 'd received her recall from Lord C , she was aboard the next trans-Atlantic seaplane from New York to Lisbon .
7 Whatever the complications may have been , and whatever those theatre nurses may have thought , the fact was that Kirsty had suffered no physical ill-effects once she was over the post-operative period .
8 When Corkill , of Darlington , Co Durham , was stopped by police , the boy was in her car and she was over the drink-drive limit , Teesside magistrates heard .
9 ‘ But I thought she was with the other programme . ’
10 As usual when drunk , he spoke to her as if she was at the other end of the street .
11 She was at the deep end of the pool when Felipe suddenly surfaced beside her .
12 Gorman , 61 — MP for Billericay in Essex — did not appear because she was at the Tory conference in Brighton .
13 Thrilled to the core by his admission that she disturbed and aroused him , she was at the same time terrified .
14 When she 'd been doing her research for this article she 'd talked to various other people in the City regarding Laura Wyndham 's expertise in her job , and they had all agreed on one thing — she was at the very top of her profession .
15 Either because she was at the bottom end of the family , or because she always had a book to study .
16 Only when she was on the other side of the car could she gain a clear view of Maurice and only then by closing to within a few yards .
17 She needed someone to talk to about it all , needed a sharer of secrets , an ear to listen to her plans and , above all , someone to agree that she was on the right course , that both shopping expedition and holiday were what she stood in urgent need of .
18 She did n't recognise any landmarks , so she went on again , keeping a sharp lookout for her ‘ pony tree ’ and for any other tree or open space that would tell her she was on the right path .
19 Those who wished to appeal more directly to fascist or nazi ideas would criticize her Christian and anti-German ideas , while stating that she was on the right track .
20 She was on the second line .
21 At fourteen hands she was on the small side for polo , with a lovely intelligent head , wide-apart dark eyes , clean legs and a smooth , effortless stride .
22 She was on the small cot bed .
23 She was on the critical list .
24 This morning she was on the farther side of the gates raking the gravel into a pattern exact as a piece of embroidery , when Nicandra came tittupping along , her hat hanging by its elastic on the back of her head .
25 ‘ And that was why she was on the upper deck that night ? ’ asked Owen .
26 just to make my day just to make my day yeah well , I was n't sure what those you see , hang on a minute mum so er she said she 'll either get the twelve or the one so I went down to see if she was on the twelve o'clock bus , and she was n't so I thought well I 'll try again
27 She did not look like a predatory widow and she was no superannuated dolly-bird either ; she must have been fifty , she was on the plump side , clear skinned , with a frank , open face .
28 As before , when she was on the Northern Line , she thought there must be some rule , some operating law , that would stop more than a limited , controlled number getting in .
29 ‘ Answer me , ’ he thundered , and she shivered ; her pleasant , familiar room had become a battlefield , and she was on the losing side .
30 Now she was writing in her journal that she would tell Dr Neil who and what she was on the coming Saturday , after the bazaar was over .
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