Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] her [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 2 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 3 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 4 | On waking , it occurred to her with renewed conviction that the experience of two days before might have been no more than a temporary aberration of an exhausted mind . |
| 5 | Because , it occurred to her with heart-stopping suddenness , the last thing in the world she wanted was to be around when Rohan Saint Yves married Antoinette — or anyone else . |
| 6 | She had dressed her hair daringly with ivory combs , sweeping it straight back from her face to emphasize her high cheekbones , then letting it fall behind her in a dark torrent that contrasted sharply with the pale silk of her gown . |
| 7 | It was supremely indifferent , but , even as it burned into her like acid , her fingers were plunging into the midnight darkness of his hair as she invited his kiss again , the tumult of his mouth on hers and in it already a necessity , wildness running in her veins , the heavy aching beat of desire unchecked at the deep core of her womanhood . |
| 8 | It is a terrible affliction ; it came to her on her wedding day , like a curse . |
| 9 | It came to her as a shock that , although she had an excellent opportunity to be acquainted with high school children through her son , she did not know any of his friends . |
| 10 | Almost always she answered ‘ yes ’ because she had come to prefer lying still , with his soft sleeping body behind her , breathing the night air scented with pine wood and wild thyme as it came to her through the open shutters , and listening to the faraway ululation of the Borzoi dog chained beneath the walls of the Castello Crocetto . |
| 11 | People who bore it came to her in her rare sleeping periods , and she learned from them . |
| 12 | She vaguely heard Matilda 's angry voice , but it came to her from a great distance . |
| 13 | It seemed to her to be the nearest thing to rough justice that would ever present itself . |
| 14 | It seemed to her as if every hair on her body , every roughness of skin , unevenness of toenail , snagged on the sticky , shiny fibres . |
| 15 | When she saw Andrew it seemed to her as if her heart had stopped beating . |
| 16 | Suddenly it seemed to her as if the whole world wanted to know about every detail of her life . |
| 17 | It seemed to her like the anus of the entire factory : a black tunnel that extruded the castings , still encased in black sand , like hot , reeking , iron turds , on to a metal grid that vibrated violently and continuously to shake off the sand . |
| 18 | When Patsy had walked up the short avenue and looked at the square house with its creeper and its shabby garden it seemed to her like a house on the front of a calendar . |
| 19 | It seemed to her like an assertion of closeness to the dead Walter that she could not match . |
| 20 | Held against his heart , feeling the steady beat beneath her cheek , she closed her eyes and let it wash over her in soothing waves . |
| 21 | The rest of it hung around her like a curtain . |
| 22 | It dawned on her for the first time that perhaps the other woman had married for money . |
| 23 | It nagged at her like an aching tooth . |
| 24 | It looked like her from the back . |
| 25 | But she could smell the danger ; it drifted around her like a pungent perfume . |
| 26 | ‘ Constanza says that she felt so much for her mother , even if she did not understand then what it meant to her to be cut off from Italy , from Rome . |
| 27 | It felt to her as if they had just unlocked the key to the whole universe , but she had a feeling that was not what he meant . |
| 28 | It lay around her like a Christmas card . |
| 29 | It gnawed at her like a ravenous animal . |
| 30 | It appeared to her as if agriculture on Møn might well have arrived with creation itself . |