Was that a sigh of relief escaping from Daniel's lips?
He was found guilty of the offence when he appeared before the League's disciplinary panel on Tuesday but, much to his relief, escaped with a fine.
Then open slid the minibus door and a vast sigh of relief escaped into the night, a sigh so deep and so long that it blew birds from their nests, twanged the wires of the cable car, and echoed up, up, up into the mountains, where it is still living in a cave somewhere – cold, hungry, but content that it never has to set foot in that minibus ever again.
I took my first look at him, and a sigh of relief escaped my tired body: he was perfect.
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There is no relief, no escape.
By the time we finally drove away with her, two days after she was born, all we felt about the place was relief to escape it.
The hospital is a sterile, soulless, modern unit and, visiting on a warm day, it's a relief to escape to the garden outside.
Writing during the day and reading when I go to bed at night, I find it an enormous relief to escape the confines of my own head.
A song in a minor key, it mourns a loss but moves with an up-tempo beat, the sound of relief or escape, of a future life somewhere else.
It's a relief to escape to the chic roof terrace, with its brown wood seating (a little unyielding on the arse, without cushions) and its wire sculptures around which jasmine is being ambitiously trained.
