Example sentences of "it [verb] to 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 It is a terrible affliction ; it came to her on her wedding day , like a curse .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 People who bore it came to her in her rare sleeping periods , and she learned from them .
10 She vaguely heard Matilda 's angry voice , but it came to her from a great distance .
11 It seemed to her to be the nearest thing to rough justice that would ever present itself .
12 It seemed to her as if every hair on her body , every roughness of skin , unevenness of toenail , snagged on the sticky , shiny fibres .
13 When she saw Andrew it seemed to her as if her heart had stopped beating .
14 Suddenly it seemed to her as if the whole world wanted to know about every detail of her life .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 It seemed to her like an assertion of closeness to the dead Walter that she could not match .
18 ‘ 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 .
19 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 .
20 It appeared to her as if agriculture on Møn might well have arrived with creation itself .
21 Well solicitor said she , it sounded to her as if there 's something more to it .
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