Example sentences of "she [vb past] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She read it through the following morning and decided not to send it , but a small niggle of grievance stayed in her mind . |
| 2 | Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time . |
| 3 | Now Liz did n't win our first , second or third prize er last year , but she , she made it to the final twelve , er her , her full-length novel now , has now been accepted by Collins and that 's going to be published next February , there 's talk of a big American contract for Liz and Liz has now been floated away in to the world of big time professional writing . |
| 4 | God was clearly on her side and she made it to the living-room door without a hitch . |
| 5 | ‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers . |
| 6 | Telling the story , as she imagined it of the mad wife . |
| 7 | It decided her ; instantly she followed it to the broad Danube . |
| 8 | She heard it in the raised treble , saw it in the bright eyes . |
| 9 | And she frightened it into the supreme effort that carried it up , soaring and stretching , reaching beyond any achievement it knew of , until , by a hairsbreadth , it gained the crest of the fallen trunk . |
| 10 | Eventually , after appealing her case for years in the UK , she took it to the European Court which agreed that there must be equal opportunities to claim social security benefits , and that discrimination on the grounds of either sex or marital status must end . |
| 11 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 12 | To her , religion was morality and appearance , and she kept it in the same compartment of her mind as her dinner napkins . |
| 13 | So she did it in the early morning before the Men came , or in the warm evenings when the Zoo gates were shut . |
| 14 | Finding her own pocket handkerchief , she gave it into the old lady 's other hand . |
| 15 | She ran it beneath the cold tap for a moment then dried it and returned to the pan , lowering the heat , scooping the eggs out and onto a plate . |
| 16 | The next time she said , ‘ Give me some chicken , ’ she said it in the vacant lot behind the Commercial Hotel , and it was a different kind of chicken altogether . |
| 17 | Sam Somerville 's rental car had been where she left it in the short-stay carpark at Heathrow . |
| 18 | In fact , as she considered it for the first time , she wondered how any of them had survived to tell the tale . |
| 19 | Taking out the small leatherbound book , she held it beneath the flickering light . |