Example sentences of "she [verb] it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She met it with a puzzled look in her eyes . |
| 2 | She read it through the following morning and decided not to send it , but a small niggle of grievance stayed in her mind . |
| 3 | Now Liz did n't win our first , second or third prize er last year , but she , she made it to the final twelve , er her , her full-length novel now , has now been accepted by Collins and that 's going to be published next February , there 's talk of a big American contract for Liz and Liz has now been floated away in to the world of big time professional writing . |
| 4 | God was clearly on her side and she made it to the living-room door without a hitch . |
| 5 | Whatever the grandeur of the situation she transcends it with a sweet serenity which mesmerizes everyone . |
| 6 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 7 | She regarded it as an unofficial library , as remote and as Municipal as the library itself And then , one Saturday morning , she went into it with Walter Ash , to look at ( not to buy ) the text of Anouilh 's Ring Round the Moon , which was being currently performed at the local rep . |
| 8 | She bore it with a little smile of amusement that began to enrage me . |
| 9 | ‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers . |
| 10 | She dismissed it with a regal gesture . |
| 11 | She handles it like a sophisticated traveller unthreatened by a new airport . |
| 12 | She imagined it as a tiny surge welling over a dam and splashing into a parched valley . |
| 13 | Telling the story , as she imagined it of the mad wife . |
| 14 | She adjusted it at a still more ludicrous angle in the mirror . |
| 15 | Above all , it 's a relaxing therapy and she sees it as a major way of helping a runner ‘ warm down ’ . |
| 16 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |
| 17 | Searching round for where she 'd put her champagne glass , she discovered it on a wrought-iron table behind her . |
| 18 | It decided her ; instantly she followed it to the broad Danube . |
| 19 | She heard it in the raised treble , saw it in the bright eyes . |
| 20 | She repeated it in a dull , polite way . |
| 21 | And she frightened it into the supreme effort that carried it up , soaring and stretching , reaching beyond any achievement it knew of , until , by a hairsbreadth , it gained the crest of the fallen trunk . |
| 22 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 23 | Charles had given it to her for a joke , suggesting she use it as a visual aid to introduce Saussurean linguistics to first-year undergraduates , holding the tube aloft to demonstrate that what is onomatopoeia in one language community may be obscenity in another . |
| 24 | Eventually , after appealing her case for years in the UK , she took it to the European Court which agreed that there must be equal opportunities to claim social security benefits , and that discrimination on the grounds of either sex or marital status must end . |
| 25 | She had known this all along , but she knew it with a different knowledge now . |
| 26 | She knew it with a dragging certainty . |
| 27 | So she advertised it at a knock-down price , and then invented a competitive bid to hurry you into signing on the dotted line . |
| 28 | Everyone else seemed to be roused by the War , but she saw it as a giant emotional hoax . |
| 29 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 30 | That first meeting had been shortly after she and her mother had moved into the house on the banks of Loch Lomond , and even now she remembered it as a magical time . |