Example sentences of "she was [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was beyond caring . |
| 2 | ‘ We ran out there , o' course , but it was obvious she was beyond 'elp . |
| 3 | I tried my best to comfort her but she was beyond consolation . |
| 4 | No doubt she was as putty in his desirable hands . |
| 5 | So she was , she was into Volkswagen Polos , she 's always liked a little run-around , she 'd like a Volkswagen Polo , and . |
| 6 | Even Ruth , ignorant as she was of New York society , knew about the Astors . |
| 7 | She was of course aware that she came from a Catholic to a barely Protestant country in a state of intense flux and religious upheaval ; her new subjects presented her with a set of pressing confessional and political problems . |
| 8 | She was of course interested in his progress , but as he had already told them , a mother substitute had been appointed to give the child his direct physical care . |
| 9 | She was of course famous for her powers of observation ; she was better than any of us at using the mirrors which she had had installed everywhere to keep an eye on everything that was happening , or was about to happen and might need averting . |
| 10 | She was of course referring to the Salisbury Annual Pleasure Fair that has been held for three days commencing on the third Monday in October for the last seven hundred years . |
| 11 | However , she must also have been thinking of Annabelle ( bride 's name ) when she added , ‘ She was of course only too good for him : but as nobody minds what is too good for them , he was very steadily earnest in pursuit of the blessing . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Where 's Oliver ? ’ asked Linda who had grown as tired of hearing Harbury 's troubles as she was of Marilyn Duxbody 's . |
| 13 | It was against her nature to tell anything but the whitest of white lies , but she was of necessity getting better at it , though it would never sit comfortably with her conscience and her sense of fairness and justice . |
| 14 | She was no more a disciple of Churchill than she was of Heath . |
| 15 | Fond as she was of Tim Dunton , she had repeatedly and steadfastly refused all his proposals of marriage . |
| 16 | There was more interest to be taken in the prospect of damages due to the newspaper insertion — the first only , the second was in order — than to any lessening of a father 's due rights over his daughter until she was of age . |
| 17 | Then secure in the knowledge that she was of age by six weeks , she had become Mrs Ziolkiwski — and written to tell Dad so . |
| 18 | She wanted to lean over and touch him , and , fearful though she was of men , and she shrank at the thought , she wanted him to touch her — gently , of course . |
| 19 | When I went to see Miss Havisham the next day , as she had requested , her house looked darker than ever , and I realized how lonely she was without Estella . |
| 20 | And she was without question , a very courageous woman . |
| 21 | In fact , as a newcomer to the area , she was without family or friends and my Wednesday call was welcomed by herself and her children as something of a social high-spot . |
| 22 | She was without volition of her own . |
| 23 | She was between jobs , at a loose end , Camb had gathered , otherwise nothing would have induced her to accompany her parents . |
| 24 | She was between Titron and the assault boat which had been going away from it . |
| 25 | Belinda put it down on the nearest table and sat there , shaking and desperately trying not to show how upset she was over Deana 's blunt accusation . |
| 26 | All this was information that Kirsty revealed to me during the course of the regression session while she was under hypnosis . |
| 27 | Of course , having always possessed an interest in astrology , she knew that it was her Arien opposition that made her react so whenever she was under threat . |
| 28 | Anyone would think she was under threat of something . |
| 29 | She was under investigation for allegedly ordering unspecified illegal payments in her former post but denied direct responsibility or any resulting personal gain . ) |
| 30 | But she felt she was under orders ( there was some comfort in that ) to spend the evening in the wilderness . |