Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed so nice and dependable — just the sort of person one would like for a brother — and it hurt her to think that he might be double-faced . |
| 2 | Dimly , Mrs Palichuk perceived that she was in the way , and it hurt her . |
| 3 | She wore a linen knee-length frock the colour of sand , and it suited her . |
| 4 | She was wearing the blue and green dress and it suited her every bit as well Claudia had thought it would . |
| 5 | It had been styled rather well , as though she 'd gone to a really good hairdresser and it suited her , was soft over her forehead and short at the back . |
| 6 | A picture rose in her mind of Dawn enfolded in his arms when they were alone in his surgery , and it tormented her so much that she got up hurriedly and put the little dog in a cage to await Robert 's collection . |
| 7 | And it surprised her a little that it was true . |
| 8 | Yet there was something else there , too — something that she had never seen in him before — and it touched her deeply . |
| 9 | She could sense his muddle , and it touched her . |
| 10 | She was getting her dress all dirty , and it made her cough . |
| 11 | It made her howl with bitterness when she was alone in the weeks that followed , and it made her grit her teeth as she strode through the streets looking for revenge , or for her baby , or for Dorothy , not too sure what she was looking for but usually coming home with nothing better than a bag of old tins . |
| 12 | She realized she had never seen the servants before except as part of the backdrop of Summer Lodge , now she saw that they were part of her life , real people with loves and loyalties especially to her and it made her feel suddenly humble . |
| 13 | It was Dolly 's first encounter with the imperturbable nature of a British Army sergeant , and it made her want to spit . |
| 14 | And it made her , of course , an ideal interpreter of Mahler . |
| 15 | And it made her look at Simon again , he was the messenger , he was a link , it had to mean something . |
| 16 | It was the first diet she 'd ever tried and it made her feel good about herself for the first time , too . |
| 17 | The cubicle was narrow , and it made her feel safe . |
| 18 | She thought of the red roses , and it made her feel quite empty inside . |
| 19 | And it told her he would n't give up either . |
| 20 | For the first time , Jane became aware of anti-Semitism , and it horrified her . |
| 21 | The Virgin bent her head to the dove in pictures of the Annunciation , and it pierced her through the ear , bringing her the Word that was life itself , down into her womb ; that was what Rosa wanted , Tommaso 's mouth next to her ear , until she , like the woman with her lover in the doorway , would wriggle and gasp . |
| 22 | And it struck her again , even more forcefully than before , that Alexander Vass was a hard man to fathom . |
| 23 | Once , years before , she 'd visited her friend Julie in a psychiatric unit and it struck her that a lot of the people wanted to be there . |
| 24 | And it struck her that he was indeed a son of this wild island , which she had glimpsed so far only briefly , yet which had struck her so vividly . |
| 25 | She drew in her breath at the simplicity of it , wondering why she had n't thought of it before , and it excited her so much she put forward the suggestion without stopping to think if it was wise . |
| 26 | She could still hear the faint murmurs of Tom Russell and his sister talking on the veranda , and it distracted her from the real purpose of this time alone , which was not to go on reliving that moment when his hand had covered her own , but to obediently follow his suggestion of giving herself time to fully think this through . |
| 27 | It kept her from worry and it kept her from settling down to write those applications which would lead to progress in her career of serious music . |
| 28 | She thought he was throwing her a sop and it steeled her . |
| 29 | There was no doubt in her mind that he was doing this deliberately and it drove her to forcefulness . |
| 30 | And it alarmed her , to say the least . |