Example sentences of "it was her " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yet it was her own countrymen who first demonstrated the ‘ tall poppy syndrome ’ she had herself foretold . |
| 32 | It was her old mistress from whom she had hoped for much , woman to woman , and none of his soothing phrases meant anything to her . |
| 33 | If she had known of how the Greeks slaughtered the bearers of bad tidings she might have taken longer to decide it was her duty , but , as it was , she saw no need to fear for herself , only for the person to whom she would relate the devastating news . |
| 34 | It was her age she supposed , and nothing could be done about it . |
| 35 | Little by little everything that was most English about her had been eroded and all she had left of it was her honesty , her natural courtesy and a slight reserve she could not entirely eliminate . |
| 36 | It was her perceptions of her kingdom which differed so crucially both from those of earlier kings of Scotland ( and , indeed , of her son James VI , who as James I was to infuriate his English subjects by his insistent interest in Scotland , and by his belief that his importance lay not in being king of England but in being a leading European monarch ) , and from those of her subjects . |
| 37 | Mam would n't say anything because she did n't want to throw it in his face that it was her money going down his throat . |
| 38 | A-To-Z is game if nothing else , and it was her will to win which enabled her to get home by three-quarters of a length from the Michael Stoute-trained Perfect Circle , with Soiree running on well , a further length away third . |
| 39 | It was her dad 's favourite piece that he 'd always refused to sell and which had had pride of place on top of the mantelpiece in the parlour . |
| 40 | So it was her fault Jenny had died . |
| 41 | It was her habit to drop in and see her daughter most mornings , and to take tea and chatter , a habit that John Carter frowned upon , as it interrupted Rhoda in her household duties . |
| 42 | was present in our bedroom until five minutes before was born and then again about an hour later — absence was her choice as it was her teatime and her tea was ready ! ! |
| 43 | It was her dimples that first attracted Vic to Marjorie twenty-five years ago , when she worked in the typing pool at Vanguard . |
| 44 | One grandmother is remembered as taking ‘ a deep interest in all her grandchildren ’ , reading and talking , walking and painting with them ; and when her granddaughter became in turn a mother , it was her belief that |
| 45 | They would visit the cemetery together : ‘ she would take a tram car , see she 'd one or two buried there , it was her own family , and we 'd go to the cemetery nearly every Sunday if the weather was good . |
| 46 | Alison would have to deal with those matters , it was her task now . |
| 47 | It was just a place where she had been left , and as she grew out of infancy she knew that it was her mother who had left her there . |
| 48 | In her child 's understanding it seemed that it was her own liberation that was the cause of the celebration , and the arrival of the princess , the flags which appeared on all the buildings and the succession of functions for which her mother and Denzil put on their beautiful evening clothes and left her with the maid . |
| 49 | It was her third eldest brother John of Cawdor who entered . |
| 50 | Occasionally when she was wearing this she had a trick of lifting it like wings , or ruffling it as if it was her real plumage , and she 'd declare : ‘ My dears , I am preparing for The Flight — into Egypt , to the islands , to the New World — who knows ! ’ |
| 51 | By this time I was sorely in need of a toilet , and it was her turn to be alarmed when she suddenly grasped the meaning of my frantic gestures . |
| 52 | It was her friend Pepe , a Mexican worker , coming over to offer her a drink of rum . |
| 53 | Dimity ran the house , it appeared , and it was her slender arms that bore in the coal scuttles , the heavy shopping baskets and the laden trays , while Ella 's powerful hands designed wood blocks , mixed paint and stamped the lengths of materials which draped their little cottage . |
| 54 | ‘ Well … it was her feet that gave her away . ’ |
| 55 | It was her first trip to Hawaii . |
| 56 | It was her first trip in a helicopter . |
| 57 | And now she had one bony hand extended towards Charles at the top of the table and in it was her dinner fork with a piece of meat still speared on it . |
| 58 | It did open , at seven minutes past , but it was her father who entered the kitchen . |
| 59 | Perhaps it was her choice of material , or the fact that it was a big theatre . |
| 60 | It was her hour and she knew it . |