Example sentences of "of her [noun] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was one of her daisies and it meant that we had all these hats on , which were very unattractive — a rubber hat and on top was the daisy , so when you swam around and the people looked down at you , they just saw these daisies . |
| 2 | So she lay still , prone , trying to catch the sound of her breathing before it escaped and gave the game away . |
| 3 | She leapt towards him and , seizing the plate of biscuits , brought it down on top of her head until it shattered , and fell onto her arms . |
| 4 | He would want to know the ins and outs of it , to seek out the deep dark passages of her mind , the intricacies of her life as it had been before . |
| 5 | Her approach to academic seminars would seem to confirm some of the claims that she was totally out of her depth when it came to discussing the new discoveries which she had allegedly made . |
| 6 | It was none of her business and it mattered to her not one iota . |
| 7 | She saw herself , her head a foam of lacy white like the shining tumbleweed caught in the evening light as it floats through the air , handed on to the bar stool , her little feet — her good point — showing beneath the hem of her skirt where it rode up as she adjusted herself . |
| 8 | The ears are thickened , they 're cracking , they 're bleeding , they itch and they hurt ; she almost scratched a hole on the outside of her ear because it hurt so much . |
| 9 | It had been a mere moment of whiteness seen out of the corner of her eye but it had not moved purposefully like a horse does with a rider . |
| 10 | She was about to reach for her drink when she caught sight of the car out of the corner of her eye as it pulled up on the opposite side of the road — a white BMW , identical to the one her uncle had . |
| 11 | He caught hold of her hand as it went up once more to her headscarf , and he held it tight against his side . |
| 12 | With his free hand he pulled at the cheap cloth of her blouse until it slipped from her shoulders and bared her breasts . |
| 13 | Huy felt he could get drunk on the smell of Taheb , sinking his lips into the base of her neck where it joined the shoulder . |
| 14 | Cheryl stepped forward to deliver another blow — just in time to catch the dead body of her husband as it fell from the locker . |
| 15 | She found herself savouring almost frantically the strangeness , the rightness of it all , felt the silent , urgent clamour of her body as it pressed against his , wanting more — always more … |
| 16 | KITS needed much more of her attention than it had been getting recently , and was now in a disturbing financial position : it did n't look as if the company would make a profit in 1966 . |