Example sentences of "it [vb past] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became her only home . |
| 2 | She had taken in the grey dress so that it hugged her thin body more closely , but that was her sole concession to fashion . |
| 3 | It made her golden shoulders quiver . |
| 4 | Whichever it was the emotion was so strong it made her attempted flirtation with Nahum Morey seem cheap . |
| 5 | The absurd rent lured her , it made her hundred pounds look less pathetic than it had when she checked into Mrs Archer 's hotel . |
| 6 | Fergie says : ‘ Finally something did happen , but it soon became clear that the Queen was just not capable of getting involved in emotional , personal problems — even though it involved her own flesh and blood . ’ |
| 7 | Showing political savvy , it reduced her six-year prison sentence to a fine of 15,000 rand ( $1,700 ) or one year in prison . |
| 8 | Her longing for him was so intense that it filled her traitorous body with more waves of nerve-tingling sensations . |
| 9 | The wife said in evidence that she knew the charge was a security but did not realise it affected her own share in the house . |
| 10 | And yet it seemed her annoying presence somehow energised him . |
| 11 | She could do with a glimpse into the future right now , she decided grimly , particularly since it seemed her irritating companion was intent on being obstructive , despite his apparent change of attitude . |
| 12 | A physical longing so strong that it seemed her very survival must be linked to it . |
| 13 | In those days marriage was a crucial turning point for a woman for it determined her social rank and their future economically speaking as well as their happiness . |
| 14 | He held her eyes as he said it , making her heart skid inside her , the touch of his gaze suddenly so soft , so caressing , that it suffused her entire body with a glow of sensuous pleasure . |
| 15 | It brought her four children who opened up the world for her and unlocked her own narrow viewpoint — though not enough , as events were to show . |
| 16 | She found it eased her aching eyes . |
| 17 | Her mind was still seething when she reached Maggie 's ; it took her two attempts to key the code into the computer-lock right-handed . |
| 18 | It took her two hours to come up with that . ’ |
| 19 | It took her two weeks to go through the whole house — ten working days . |
| 20 | It took her two weeks after the abortive occupation to stick them together again . |
| 21 | Bubbles is actually very clever ; it took her five minutes to learn how to leg yield . |
| 22 | ‘ It took her six years to mention the second child to me , and because of the way she 's been towards me , I 've never had an avenue to find out whether he was my son or not . ’ |
| 23 | The entire area was so altered it took her several minutes to establish where their cottage had been . |
| 24 | It took her several minutes to shake off the resulting stupefaction . |
| 25 | The note was a jumble of misspelt and blotched sentences , and it took her several minutes to decipher . |
| 26 | Ten minutes later , she miaowed if I approached her and it took her several hours to forgive me and to stop treating me like a walking cat repellent . |
| 27 | It took her several seconds to absorb the letter although it did not in any way fill the one sheet of paper . |
| 28 | But , when she was down in the country , I had a BSkyB dish installed in London and it took her 24 hours to find it . |
| 29 | It took her three months to gain the confidence to walk through a door , even if the other two dogs walked out first . |
| 30 | Among them , the suggestion that during surgery her head was n't properly supported , or that a surgical hammer used in the operation was applied with so much force that it damaged her spinal cord . |