Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Thrift apologizes , whingeing , for the poisoned sausage , reminding Alix that she ate it twenty years ago , when she had no money and needed the sausage .
2 I BLOODY WELL WILL to show her , is what I thought so it was a shot of adrenalin I needed … not , I know , that she meant it that way .
3 She could n't abide the thought of it , sitting there grinning , it gave her bad dreams she said , so she took it one morning and hid it in the stable loft .
4 Already to most of the regular customers she was n't the famous Aurora Blake , but simply , Rory , and she liked it that way .
5 When it had happened four or five times , and he had , perhaps , begun to feel some stirrings of a more disturbing passion , she had brought him up with a catalogue of the men she had had , and made it clear that — if she wanted it that way — there would be more .
6 By some miracle she had hung on to her job with the Caring Chauvinist , but she found it exhausting coping with that , and running the house , and looking after Perdita , and more and more after Violet and Eddie .
7 She has run a Beavers Club for boys aged six and seven since she founded it 27 years ago .
8 The Rectory , when she reached it ten minutes later , was as silent and calm as when she had visited it with the Archdeacon on Saturday evening .
9 She could never remember the Alice 's registration number without looking it up , though she saw it twenty times a day .
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