Example sentences of "it was her " in BNC.
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| 1 | She joked that it was her favourite occupation . |
| 2 | Hardly surprising , since she 'd played it non-stop since her Lucy dream , wept to it , soaked it in until it was her heartbeat , floated on the cloud of its beauty all through the Lucyless days . |
| 3 | Unfortunate that it was her turn for the floor . |
| 4 | It was her nail scissors that she 'd been searching for days , lost under the hearthrug and pressing into her hip ; and the cry was also her virginity , small and bewildered and gone . |
| 5 | When the sister was summoned up and said it was her grave had been dug , he realised there was nothing more he could do and the whole thing was adjourned to the community centre for a couple of hours while big men with shovels rather grudgingly got to work . ’ |
| 6 | It was her way with the pithy and quotable phrase that drew media attention to her work on the London catwalks in the early Eighties , a knack she called on again in her last collection , studding ‘ Clean Up Or Die ’ on to the backs of leather biker jackets . |
| 7 | The extreme delight of it had almost shocked her ; it was her one personal extravagance . |
| 8 | It was her bubbly , outgoing nature that helped Philippa grow up with her condition . |
| 9 | She had said it was her niece because the girl was young and had black hair and because who else but Nora Fanshawe could have been in that car with her parents ? |
| 10 | It was her research that showed how close we are in evolutionary terms to the apes : how they communicate with each other , use tools ( hitherto thought to be a strictly human activity ) and develop lifelong bonds of family and friendship . |
| 11 | State occasion or not , it was her day and she wanted to be surrounded by her friends . |
| 12 | It was her smile that always did for him . |
| 13 | The rabbi 's wife had insisted it was her role to attend to their epileptic daughter several times each night ; her husband must sleep to be strong for the community . |
| 14 | Although only the vestiges of her original Pomfret Lodge lie behind this Regency update , it was her obsession with the Gothic that lingered on and produced this pale pink confection . |
| 15 | It was her solitary research and activism during the 1970s which alerted the world to the fact that despite the end of large-scale hunting in the 1950s , numbers had continued to decline , and the whales were on the verge of extinction . |
| 16 | It was her face chiefly that I saw brightening and fading away in my mind 's eye . |
| 17 | Or perhaps I ought to say it was her spirit , since it resembled not at all any portrait that could have been painted . |
| 18 | That feeling was strange , she resisted it , she knew that it was absurd as well as amoral , but in the end she told herself that she could not command her feelings : she was no longer able to torment herself with thoughts of their wars nor to enjoy their celebrations , because she was filled with the conviction that none of it was her concern . |
| 19 | If something did not go right , such as missing a train — even if it was her own fault — she flew into a rage . |
| 20 | It was her relentless sense of order which had scaffolded her life . |
| 21 | She had obviously not noticed that it was her own number . |
| 22 | Sometimes in her memory , it was her faceless father who was two fingers short instead . |
| 23 | Then it was her turn . |
| 24 | It was her friend . |
| 25 | There had been a room full of people , and she knew she was dead and it was her own funeral . |
| 26 | I even asked her if it was her that smashed that kiosk up ! |
| 27 | Eager to see Bella , she had got up as soon as she was awake , although it was her usual habit to lie , for twenty minutes or so , drowsy , cocooned in her warm bed , entertaining herself with fantasies . |
| 28 | And it was her Dad 's face that she saw , briefly superimposed on Simon 's , as he slid helplessly down the slimy walls . |
| 29 | It was her ‘ wait ’ and she sped down the stone staircase ahead of the lumbering old man and snatched up the receiver . |
| 30 | And it was her fellow Australians who plunged in the knives with most relish . |