Example sentences of "she was [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court might be in a foreign country , there to try a citizen of yet a third nation , but it was her element and she was relieved to be back in it , even though she could take no active part in the trial . |
| 2 | She was relieved to be out in the cool night air , but the journey home was an awkward one and she felt a little sorry for herself as she waited for her second bus . |
| 3 | However , she was equal to the occasion . |
| 4 | She was invisible to him , already forgotten . |
| 5 | She was invisible to them . |
| 6 | Abul Ismail had said that she was loyal to Genoa , and it seemed this was true , whatever Carlotta had done to her . |
| 7 | But she was loyal to the Queen and in January 1979 she had realized that the Queen had a serious problem . |
| 8 | She was new to the country and did not have many friends . |
| 9 | When she was new to the gentle art she spent a lot of her time climbing trees , to retrieve misjudged casts , rather than bother Father . |
| 10 | At that moment her Arabic was even poorer than mine , for she was new to the household , but on my next visit she would be rattling away in this throaty language and I would be struggling as usual . |
| 11 | He now pulled a face at Agg and went on , ‘ He said he thought she was new to the job . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Aye , except he pointed out that if she was new to the job and she tried to muzzle in around that quarter , the others would soon make short shrift of her . |
| 13 | He then made one or two suggestions for limiting her liability , but got the impression that she was indifferent to his suggestions as though she thought it would be a waste of time to put them forward . |
| 14 | Thérèse because she was indifferent to the acid jab of nettles , Léonie because she liked to see that little corner of the grounds turned untidy and wild , the gateposts swarming with weeds and grass in their crevices , clumps of Michaelmas daisies . |
| 15 | But , as her shirt grew soaked in sweat , she was obliged to edge nearer Angel , who looked at her as if she were a tarantula . |
| 16 | She was opposed to World War I and the resultant erosion of civil liberties . |
| 17 | Whatever Laura 's motives — Moira believes she expected her to take injections or pills to dry up her milk supply entirely ; Bernard believes she was opposed to mothers returning to work so soon — the atmosphere was charged . |
| 18 | She was opposed to toleration of Protestants and Jews in her dominions . |
| 19 | She was deaf to the arguments of those who told her that they would detract from the product , that they promoted only ugliness . |
| 20 | She was dangerous to other people , dangerous to Drew . |
| 21 | She was accountable to no one and was no longer relied upon by anyone . |
| 22 | After she had walked for another half hour she was tired to the bone . |
| 23 | She was grateful to him for his solicitude and the tale came slowly out . |
| 24 | In a way she was grateful to Janine . |
| 25 | I think she was grateful to him for bothering to show any interest in a woman with an illegitimate child on her hands . |
| 26 | She was grateful to be away from the subject of her age and told him honestly , ‘ I 've an elder sister , ’ and , on thinking briefly , added , ‘ but she 's in America at the moment . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied , but she was grateful to him that he did not hurry her but allowed her to look her fill before they set off through a pathway of more trees and green parkland . |
| 28 | She was married to a Jew , a history professor . |
| 29 | Lady Jane Grey was nominated by King Edward VI as his successor — she was married to the son of the Duke of Northampton . |
| 30 | Mary Tudor rode to London in order to claim the throne and with the intention of reinstating the Roman Catholic Church , but the fact that she was married to Philip of Spain and wished to make him King of England , was also not acceptable and led to hostility in London . |