Example sentences of "her [noun] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharon Griffiths was travelling in a car driven by her sister when it collided head on with the stolen vehicle . |
| 2 | She dressed in black trousers and a white blouse with long full sleeves , brushed her hair till it shone and twisted it into a tight knot on top of her head , thinking with satisfaction that Roman would n't like it but she was n't about to let him dictate how she wore her hair , or dressed . |
| 3 | Her hair was dipping into the water and , stooping above her , Matthew was carefully pouring water from the jug , making a cascade over her hair as it washed the soapy water back into the bath . |
| 4 | She had taken off the ribbon that kept back her hair and it hung about her shoulders , much longer than Seb had realised . |
| 5 | She pushed back her hair where it had slipped from the bandanna , then tried to shrug off the tension with a sigh . |
| 6 | As she returned kiss for kiss , sure of nothing but her need for him , she felt his hand free her hair where it clung to her hot damp skin , then glide lightly down . |
| 7 | If the truth were known , he had only acceded to her wishes because it took him away from her , allowing him access to libraries , bookshops and students of all races and creeds — many of them Irish . |
| 8 | So she lay still , prone , trying to catch the sound of her breathing before it escaped and gave the game away . |
| 9 | For a long moment he held her tightly against him as if he was afraid she might try to elude him , then when he seemed sure of her his hands encircled her waist , moulded her hips and moved upwards , unbuttoning her shirt , pulling it from the waistband of her jeans , then slipping it from her shoulders until it fell to the floor . |
| 10 | Mary fell off her horse when it bucked . |
| 11 | She tugged at the arm around her neck and it shifted enough for her to yell , ‘ Travis look out ! ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Donna closed her eyes as it climbed through turbulence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It rustled round her ears as it had done before she went into mourning . |
| 16 | Linda became a target for abuse from others who knew about her friendship but it did n't worry her . |
| 17 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 18 | And as the lights came up , she 'd sit down again and let the thing creep back up through her bones where it belonged . |
| 19 | And erm it was erm like silky material so it looked really , it , it was n't chiffon it was erm no it was sort of satiny silky , it was n't real silk but it was like shiny stuff , and it sort of went in , in and it went a V down there and then it like flowed down and it was very short and because it was a si but it d it was n't tight , I mean it sort of clung , it showed her waist but it did n't , you know , it exaggerated her waist but it did n't like it did n't cling anywhere else really and it just looked quite , it was flowing and it was , it was really smart and it was , I , the sort of erm the material would be erm sort of almost like und er like my pyjamas that , it was that in black kind of halfy satiny silky stuff . |
| 20 | And erm it was erm like silky material so it looked really , it , it was n't chiffon it was erm no it was sort of satiny silky , it was n't real silk but it was like shiny stuff , and it sort of went in , in and it went a V down there and then it like flowed down and it was very short and because it was a si but it d it was n't tight , I mean it sort of clung , it showed her waist but it did n't , you know , it exaggerated her waist but it did n't like it did n't cling anywhere else really and it just looked quite , it was flowing and it was , it was really smart and it was , I , the sort of erm the material would be erm sort of almost like und er like my pyjamas that , it was that in black kind of halfy satiny silky stuff . |
| 21 | It moulded itself about her waist and it felt warm and rather safe , as if it might be armouring her against the evils in here . |
| 22 | Sartre had initially been attracted to her work because it seemed to demonstrate his own concern with the inauthenticity of human relationships , yet he would later reject her fiction simply on the basis that her novels are set in an upper-middle-class Parisian milieu . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A horrible weakness seemed to have invaded her limbs and it took a supreme effort to drag her attention back to the conversation . |
| 25 | She had left the note in an addressed envelope on her desk and it had vanished . |
| 26 | With his free hand he pulled at the cheap cloth of her blouse until it slipped from her shoulders and bared her breasts . |
| 27 | She was n't so sure about her safety when it came to other things . |
| 28 | She turned her back to him and fiddled with a trolley , and bit her cheek till it bled . |
| 29 | She was only a few feet away from the buffer when a rat darted in front of her , and although she jerked her head back sharply its wet tail brushed against her cheek as it disappeared into a gap between the two lengths of corroded track . |
| 30 | 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 . |