Example sentences of "she [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He banged his cup down on its saucer , so hard that she expected it to shatter . |
| 2 | The set was so tacky she expected it to collapse each time one of the characters came through the door . |
| 3 | Alice 's hand shrank a little , but she made it lie steady . |
| 4 | Her confessor having ordered her to use an ordinary discipline and leave off her iron chain , she made it knot three rows and wore it round her body … |
| 5 | ‘ Yet she made it known to Brother Tutilo , ’ retorted Herluin , burning up in his turn , ‘ that she has felt compassion towards afflicted Ramsey , and wishes to benefit us in our distress . |
| 6 | She made it sound as if I was having a baby . |
| 7 | She made it sound so complicated . |
| 8 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 9 | She made it sound like a public execution , Christina thought . |
| 10 | She made it sound French , pronouncing the word so that it rhymed with ‘ Vaseline ’ . |
| 11 | She made it sound as though this were something illegal . |
| 12 | She made it sound very simple , as young people do ; and she had n't yet considered the implications for herself , Mr Stanforth reflected cynically , or she would not so blithely dismiss the matter of the inheritance . |
| 13 | She made it sound as if the two things should have been similar . |
| 14 | She made it sound as if her husband were in the employ of a superior company . |
| 15 | She made it sound like a disease . |
| 16 | She realised it had been cut . |
| 17 | She bet it had n't from him . |
| 18 | She had been the last to use it , when she unlocked it to get the morphia for Mrs Richards . |
| 19 | Always thought it a wicked waste of a good nurse when she chucked it to marry . |
| 20 | She got it shut , and leaning with difficulty to the jolting bowl , she vomited colourless fluids from her empty stomach . |
| 21 | I said well I think she realized it came to so he 's definitely booked the high court so she 's , she 's done nothing about changing him or anything like that . |
| 22 | At the gateway to the dock a black sports saloon had passed across a junction , unnerving her , but she doubted it had been Rory 's . |
| 23 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
| 24 | She found it eased her aching eyes . |
| 25 | She found it unsurprising that her lodgers , with the exception of Mr Landor , assumed she was Italian , especially if their own command of the Italian language was weak . |
| 26 | Now , she found it made her preen . |
| 27 | As she put away the cutlery and was so sorry for herself , she found it made things easier if she dramatised them . |
| 28 | ‘ Miss Wharton , who with a young boy discovered the bodies , says that she found it unlocked . ’ |
| 29 | Constance could not decide whether or not his diffidence sprang from fear or indifference , and she found it puzzling that someone as confident as Nicky in every other area of his life should be so timid when it came to love . |
| 30 | But when she got to the flat she found it ransacked . |