Example sentences of "her [noun] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Viola 's voice had that organ note of the English landed aristocracy , though in her case it had been formed not in the hunting-fields , but on the lonely , sheep expanses of her native land . |
| 2 | When she peered through her fingers it seemed to her that the butterfly was quite happy in its warm cage : not a flutter from its four wings as she proceeded carefully along the box-edged paths that led back to the green garden door . |
| 3 | Twice that morning , before even the heat was at its worst , she had to lie down and mop her face with a cold wet cloth and when she took the cloth from her skin it seemed to steam . |
| 4 | She thought that the spasm of pain would be followed by vomiting , as it often was , but by the time she reached her bedroom it had passed . |
| 5 | She gave it the liquorice of her mouth it began to thrive |
| 6 | She lay perfectly still , knowing that when the light , filmy shift settled over her body it revealed more than it hid . |
| 7 | Through her experiments it became evident that , despite the extensive elaboration of wine descriptors and the beliefs of the participants , neither lay persons nor experts were actually communicating knowledge about wines to their fellows in conversation , such that the wine referred to could be recognized from linguistic description alone ( Lehrer 1983 ) . |
| 8 | Under her leadership it became one of the most respected periodicals in the field . |
| 9 | She tried to pull away , but as she moved her head it brought her closer to his mouth , and when his lips touched hers she was lost , caught up in an explosion triggered by his touch . |
| 10 | Aware of the loose board near the top of the stairs , she clung to the wall and then slipped down to the garden in shadow , barely a shadow herself , and making as little noise , though inside her head it seemed as if her heart would waken the dead with its pumping . |
| 11 | His orgasms seemed to him to be perfectly genuine , but once Maisie had an idea in her head it proved difficult to shift . |
| 12 | Although , she reasoned realistically , if he had been fooling around behind her back it indicated that what he felt for her fell very far short of love , in which case he would probably have cancelled the wedding if she had n't . |
| 13 | But she had eaten it , and with the delicious taste still lingering on her palate it had seemed ungrateful to cross-question him . |
| 14 | As her mouth opened to gasp her shock it filled with snow and dead leaves . |
| 15 | When she discovered Camilla had acted as Charles 's unofficial hostess at Highgrove functions in her absence it made Diana loathe the place even more . |
| 16 | I mean while she had her career it did n't matter so much because I was there . |
| 17 | The coolly spoken words were like a bucket of ice-cold water thrown in her face , but instead of restoring her composure it had the opposite effect of stoking her anger all the more . |
| 18 | Later in her life it made her impossible . |
| 19 | A tap at the door and without waiting for her answer it opened a fraction . |
| 20 | McLeish decided that since she was unaware of her audience it did not become him to be selfconscious , and asked what she expected even a Senator to achieve in these circumstances ? |
| 21 | Her knowledge of the proposed legal charge , the reasons for it and the desirability of her signing it came exclusively from her husband . |
| 22 | With difficulty she repressed comments on the writer 's own linguistic proficiency , and how in her view it disabled him from judging Walter 's scholastic achievements ; with difficulty , too , she refrained from rebutting the idea that she was not getting any younger , for that was precisely what she felt she was getting , these days ; and she ended with best wishes for the future , mentally hoping it would not be for him a long one . |
| 23 | I quickly discovered that in her view it did n't have one , and that the only reason she had agreed to see me was to get this across once and for all . |
| 24 | David Southworth who owned the hall and who was the nephew of Tace 's widow , had done up the lodge as a home for his wife 's mother but since her death it had stood empty . |