Example sentences of "she [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking a clean sheet of A4 paper out of a drawer , she divided it into three vertical columns . |
| 2 | The inner ring itself could never quite understand her arrival there , and concluded finally that she made it through sheer cheek . |
| 3 | She made it with thirty seconds to spare . |
| 4 | She made it in four , her hair still wet from the shower , wearing jeans and a T-shirt beneath the white coat she had hastily thrown on . |
| 5 | Yeah but on the yeah but I mean if she sold it for thirty two she 'd still owe them nine thousand would n't she ? |
| 6 | She was going to put it in the china vase , only one of the stage hands had left his lighter there for safe keeping , so she stuffed it between two books on the top shelf . |
| 7 | Mm , well Ann and she got it for thirty two and a half ! |
| 8 | Her hair changes from dark green in the water to bright gold when she emerges , and she dresses it with fine jewelled ornaments from her underwater palace . |
| 9 | He pushed the invitation over to her : she regarded it with mock distaste . |
| 10 | In fact , she dismissed it with one word — ‘ rubbish ’ — but we 'd just started the show when there was a loud bang . |
| 11 | Squeezing her fist together she crumbled it into fine powdery dust . |
| 12 | Every woman is connected to that lineage , whether or not she furthers it through physical reproduction . |
| 13 | Here is the modest parish church of St Mary : the date of its founding is obscure , but a panel over the porch records that the building was restored by Lady Anne Clifford in 1663 after she found it in ruinous condition . |
| 14 | She found it within five minutes . |
| 15 | If she felt the presence of a man she had never known here in this house , just how much did Marguerite feel his presence and just how much did she need it at this time ? |
| 16 | Abruptness was her most familiar mode , and Liz sometimes fancied that she practised it with peculiar pleasure on Charles , whenever she got the chance : and Charles , accustomed to being listened to with reverence , took it in good part . |
| 17 | She filled it with sweet oils and bubbles , shrugged her clothes off , and got in . |
| 18 | She complements it with vocal caricatures of the monstrous and a keening she calls a ‘ vengeful mourning cry ’ . |
| 19 | But later in the day , after the Christmas meal , alone in her room for an hour 's rest , she unpacked it with all its effects . |
| 20 | Taking it out , she ripped it into tiny pieces then tossed the fragments into the bucket that still stood on the dresser like some awful avant-garde ornament . |
| 21 | She never noticed it when she was in there and when she turned it over that was all green , all the way round . |
| 22 | She dug it in deeper and it gave a horrific screech . |
| 23 | She opened it at random and placed it on Matilda 's desk . |
| 24 | She hated it at first , she would n't drive it . |
| 25 | But she hated it at first . |
| 26 | She spent it on other things . |
| 27 | She flooded it with electric light . |
| 28 | She divides it into great scoopfuls and fills a cornflake bowl for each of us . |
| 29 | Getting ready helped to restore her calm and , in any case , she felt she owed it to Marguerite to make some effort on this first evening at her house . |
| 30 | at that church one she has learnt so much erm I mean this to speak French , now she speaking it in three weeks ! |