Example sentences of "[conj] her [noun] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her lower lip stung and burned where her teeth pierced it . |
| 2 | In October of that year , while she was teaching in Columbia , South Carolina , she had realised that her work to that point expressed what her teachers or her friends expected it to ; and she determined , then , that she should allow it to express what she was feeling . |
| 3 | She might fight him , resent him , even hate him for condemning her on Matilda 's word alone , but she could n't deny his need or her longing to satisfy it . |
| 4 | She felt somehow that her sister needed it , for it seemed only too probable that if Rupert was interested in any woman it was in Ianthe . |
| 5 | Mrs Gaskell , who knew much better than Jane Austen how the poor really lived , and saw that her readers knew it too by taking them inside ( at least in towns ) , nevertheless allows her heroine , Margaret , to take pleasure in sketching the exterior of a squatter cottage which is due for demolition in the New Forest . |
| 6 | Except that her figure made it look good anyway . |
| 7 | It is now called The Cottage , but Mrs Smith remembers that her father-in-law bought it in the early thirties and referred to it as ‘ the Doctor 's House . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Beryl would n't look after the baby so her sister took it temporarily , but then Beryl really was ill with poliomyelitis so the little boy stayed with her sister . |
| 9 | She gave a small , tight smile and her grandmother answered it with , ‘ Yes , in more ways than one , we 'll definitely be back to square one . |
| 10 | Going upstairs to Helen 's flat , she handed it over , and her godmother took it with a smile . |
| 11 | She was a fallen woman , and her hair knew it . |
| 12 | Thatcher never laid out her ideal world for everyone to shoot down — she and her cronies unveiled it bit by beautifully packaged bit . |
| 13 | Without her wishing it to be so , it seemed in the nature of things for her always to seek favour and her mistress to bestow it . |
| 14 | In fact , Dinah was playing a part , and her sons knew it ; the part of a widow leaving the past behind . |
| 15 | And then sh Elizabeth had come over by then and I said it 's it 's in her bag , so we had a look at it and her friend said it 's for angina , it always makes her ill ! |
| 16 | Dry-mouthed , Jane cupped the glass in her palms , lifting it until her lips were level with its rim and her breath filled it . |
| 17 | ‘ A fisherman 's hut , by the looks of it , ’ he added , and her nose confirmed it , wrinkling at a stale smell of fish and disuse . |
| 18 | It has its disadvantages in one 's daily life , and I remember now that I described this in At Mrs L 's — how Julia was like that and her family found it tiring and annoying , because she came to everything freshly and without preconceived opinions , and wasted time and came to odd conclusions because nothing was taken for granted . |
| 19 | Impeccably dressed in white tie , top hat and tails , she sand and danced through her repertoire of songs , including ‘ Burlington Bertie ’ and ‘ Adeline ’ , and her audience loved it . |
| 20 | It may be that none of these incidents , taken by itself , would be very significant , but the cumulative effect of them supports the view that the plaintiff and her husband subordinated their own interests to the wishes of the deceased … the plaintiff 's acts went well beyond what was called for by natural love and affection for someone to whom she had no blood relationship , and both she and her husband made it very clear in their evidence that there was no great love and affection between her husband and the deceased , and that he was only willing to pay for meals that the plaintiff provided for the deceased and to work as he did in the garden of the cottage because of the expectation that the deceased 's estate would in due course pass to the plaintiff . |
| 21 | Jessy and her husband feel it is a priority that their children go through school , but are already worried that they will not be able to afford to send the eldest to secondary school . |
| 22 | She said I rang back and her husband answered it . |
| 23 | Kimberley is lucky to be alive , and her mother says it 's all due to the skill of medical staff at both Cheltenham and Frenchay hospital in Bristol where she was transferred . |
| 24 | And if , if her foot overlaps it all , take them back , cos you might be better off just getting two anyway |
| 25 | As she moved off with the other mounted followers , Artemis determined that if her father thought it was time for her to stop riding ponies and learn to hunt on a horse , then so be it . |
| 26 | Jane found it cold , but her visitors found it freezing , so she turned up the thermostat to seventy . |
| 27 | He had a lot he wanted to say , but her face forbade it . |
| 28 | Juliet was too excited to speak , but her eyes told it all . |
| 29 | Just as her fingers touched it , one foot slid from under her and she lot her balance . |
| 30 | Dinah felt the weight of Paul 's head , felt the smoothness of his straight brown hair as her hands stroked it ; and was aware of a shocking fact . |