Example sentences of "she [verb] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She made it sound French , pronouncing the word so that it rhymed with ‘ Vaseline ’ . |
2 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
3 | As she put away the cutlery and was so sorry for herself , she found it made things easier if she dramatised them . |
4 | If she found it stretching credulity that a meeting between them was n't inevitable she 'd always fiercely denied to herself that she had any interest in seeing him again , so why should she be feeling so shivery and hot , almost as if she had a fever ? |
5 | When she received a gift from the Queensland corps back in Australia she used it to help Simon . |
6 | colour is all-important to her and she uses it to convey feeling and sensation . |
7 | She says it makes sense to go to France . |
8 | She heard it give way and then plunge into the water . |
9 | She called it graduated henna . |
10 | During the day if the whistle blew , she knew it meant death — somebody 's poppa or brother , perhaps her own — in that fearsome place below the ground , the mine . |
11 | She knew it annoyed Mrs. Mott , which was why she had agreed so peaceably to the girls not using the main staircase and the hall of the house to get to their sessions . |
12 | Yet the table still looked bare , and suddenly she knew it needed flowers . |
13 | She saw it had wok en further into its power , for the light was visible , washing through the dark ; it sighed like the sea . |
14 | Aged 28 , Lesley claims not to be a natural competitor and in fact as a teenager dropped out of a PE teacher training course as she felt it made sport too serious and took the fun away . |
15 | She did it last time , and she did it again . ’ |
16 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
17 | If she left it unopened Rosie would face it when she got back from lunch and Rain could not be that heartless . |