Example sentences of "it be [prep] her " in BNC.

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1 How difficult will it be for her to recover ?
2 Well er he 's , she 's got two kids , little ones and has moved in to a house du n no whether it 's with her or not but he 's very touchy about the subject when anybody asks cos Johnny said oh I 'm sorry to hear about you and he g he go goes oh I suppose you know it all do you ?
3 What he said was , ‘ It 's not for me to say , Aggie , it 's for her .
4 It 's for her .
5 It 's without her is n't it ?
6 erm , I 've got a lot , I have it 's about her , the reason why she 's moving all this stuff
7 It 's unlike her to be late . ’
8 Maybe she was n't even hungry but it 's in her to kill .
9 The inspiration is from me and her , but first of all it 's from her . ’
10 She changed my entire perspective of the infection and it is to her , I believe , that I owe my current good health .
11 Other than that , I ca n't see what it is about her that is so dreadful suddenly , but the tone of disappointment and warning in my mother 's voice does get through to me .
12 talk about , I do n't know what it is about her I do n't like her , very often I sort of she , to me she 's sarcastic , the way , the way she 's talking to you there 's sarcasm there all the time , you know , like
13 Here , in Madeleine L'Engle 's Meet the Austins , worldly success is made some sort of virtue , as it is in her A wrinkle in time ( 1963 , p.30 ) : ‘ You 've met my mother , have n't you ?
14 She knew it was about her .
15 It was through her that I became interested in life .
16 It was beyond her .
17 Undry was in her mind , shedding troubled surges of light through deep darkness ; what am I going to do ? she wondered , and knew it was beyond her to decide anything .
18 It was brought to her before I really got to know her , but it was with her for quite some time .
19 It was with her always , like some unforgettable sight or sound , like the cry of a drowning man , always echoing in the back of the mind .
20 The woman 's face paled and she stepped back when she suddenly realised that Fran was n't alone and who exactly it was with her .
21 Nell Anderson knew she was seconds from death , and that despite her desire for it , the moment it was on her was terrifying in its violence .
22 God knows where it was on her .
23 I remember thinking how typical it was of her that she never thought of being wooed .
24 Raskolnikov turns to Sonya ; ‘ it was to her , Sonya , that he first went with his confession ; when he felt the need of a human being , he sought the human being in her ’ — which does indeed isolate for a moment , and emphasize , the mystic business of his alienation from the human family ; and for this moment the dross ( as it were ) of Sonya and of Raskolnikov is withheld ; the god in his humanity is looking for the god in hers .
25 And when he appeared in the yard , followed by the child , it was to her she spoke , saying , ‘ Go and put your hat and coat on ; we 're goin' for a walk . ’
26 Perhaps she really did little more than lend her name , but it was to her at any rate that Queen Victoria 's secretary wrote with royal support for her venture ( the Queen had also supported the Victoria Press , named after her ) .
27 Constance was , at present , the most important person in her life , for it was to her that she read out items of interest in the newspaper , with her that she shared her doubts and prejudices and to her that she described her dreams .
28 She had been tricking herself earlier into thinking that he did , that their friendship was nearly as important to him as it was to her , but seeing him in the garden with Marise tonight , and hearing about his marriage , unhappy though it had been , had made her realise that friendship was never as important as passion — at least , she was sure , not to a man .
29 It must have been as clear to him as it was to her that Jeff , most definitely , was n't acting .
30 Difficult though it was for her , however , are we entitled to assume that her French upbringing was bound to give her an adverse picture of her Scottish kingdom , and that her view was justified ?
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