Example sentences of "[noun] she [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 From a distance of thirty feet she heard it clawing the earth .
2 For a moment she thought it shared her doubts ; there was a hint of a fumble as it doubled its hind legs under for the leap .
3 But when she got to the flat she found it ransacked .
4 When she received a gift from the Queensland corps back in Australia she used it to help Simon .
5 On her way back up the stairs she struck it to make sure it had petrol .
6 Without a word she folded it shut and laid the pencil flat beside it .
7 In the end she left it to cry .
8 The insolent way she said it made the other girls gasp with astonishment .
9 Somehow , the way she said it gave it a capital letter .
10 I am sure that had nothing to do with her withdrawal but the way she did it raised more questions than it answered .
11 She 's right nice , just qualified now to college , from Taunton you know , Daphne says steering the conversation in the way she wanted it to go .
12 ‘ I 've had a splendid time , ’ she replied instead , and when some minutes later a taxi whisked them back to their hotel she felt it had been a dream of an evening .
13 and then the second time she had it done
14 the second time she had it done and then , they had to remove it because she went down to seven stone
15 and the second time she had it done it was very unfortunate because I
16 It contained perhaps half a dozen large water-colour sketches of a seaside resort ; because of the context she knew it had to be Deauville — his imagined Deauville .
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