Example sentences of "she was [prep] the " 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 | She was into the pyjamas . |
| 4 | Gazing down , Luke thought how beautiful she was despite the tear-stains and the swollen eyelids . |
| 5 | ‘ … poor , almost illiterate … her pride was that she was of the Clanranald . |
| 6 | Fergus had divined how afraid she was of the doll-mask and had dealt with it in his own way , daring her to let it all hang out , quoting Yeats at her in his Irish voice . |
| 7 | Stephanie did not like cut glass : she was of the generation that discovered the plain , the functional , the Finnish , Dartington . |
| 8 | She was of the opinion there was more to the girl than might reasonably be expected . |
| 9 | She had never been so aware of anyone as she was of the powerful man who had entered her life so abruptly . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She gave me the names of all her friends and said how proud she was of the life her father had given her . |
| 12 | Far from being tempted to explain anything then , she was of the view that she 'd see him in hell first . |
| 13 | Fond though she was of the other girl , she could n't take much more of this . |
| 14 | Once she 'd received her recall from Lord C , she was aboard the next trans-Atlantic seaplane from New York to Lisbon . |
| 15 | The catamaran shook its bows against the swell , then she was through the wind and on to the other tack with the sails drawing sweetly . |
| 16 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 17 | Remorse and pain clutched at her , almost taking her breath away , and Jenna spun round and took to her heels , taking Alain by surprise so that she was through the door and down the stairs before he caught her . |
| 18 | She was through the door and out into the courtyard within seconds but Ana had already gone and all Maggie could do was follow . |
| 19 | He plunged back into his work , forgetting about her before she was through the door . |
| 20 | She played those games — anything to keep the girls children as long as possible and not face up to the fact that she was over the hill . |
| 21 | Samson yowled , let go , and she was over the back of the counter crouching down , pushing and wriggling through stinking legs and skirts that reeked of an unwashed lifetime . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Yeah , she was over the moon with it though , was n't she ? |
| 25 | She was over the moon with it |
| 26 | ‘ She was over the moon . |
| 27 | So she was under the sea ; this was green water around her , not air . |
| 28 | ( 1 ) Although she was under the influence of the painkilling pethidine , she had not lost her mental faculties and she was sufficiently alert , though tired , to be able to understand the questions asked of her and to answer them comprehensively and comprehendingly . |
| 29 | She was under the impression that Charles had put the kibosh on any exclusive agreement with Barton , and most certainly nothing had been said about her writing her life story . |
| 30 | She was under the shower , however , when she thought that , fingers crossed , perhaps there were n't too many garages in , say , a ten-mile radius of Františkovy Láznë . |