Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next door seemed to be a likely one , it was not quite closed , so she gently pushed it open — gently , just in case she was wrong , and it was a bedroom . |
| 2 | But , years later , Liz found herself visiting the Freud museum in Berggasse in Vienna , and there she suddenly saw it all — the red walls , the figurines , and , perhaps most distinctively , the predominance of red carpet-cushions , the characteristic mixture of Persian geometric patterns on floor and couch — a Jewish mixture , a Viennese mixture , a Freudian mixture ? |
| 3 | ‘ She usually got it one way or another . ’ |
| 4 | There was no light or warmth on the surface of the earth , for she selfishly kept it all to herself . |
| 5 | Seven months before their 1990 wedding , she still thought it possible she would marry Chris . |
| 6 | She still called it that ; and indeed , beyond the line of evergreen trees beside the main road south of the Lebanese city of Tyre , I could see above the coastline a faint , thin grey line of hills inside Galilee on the other side of the Israeli frontier . |
| 7 | He was also formidable , demanding , difficult — and smouldering with anger , but she still found it impossible to tear her gaze away . |
| 8 | She still found it hard to believe that any British ship could be in danger so near to home ; even when Jock had explained that unless a submarine was in water deep enough in which to dive , an escort was essential . |
| 9 | She still found it hard to believe the Doctor 's explanation . |
| 10 | She still found it hard to believe that someone would go to all that trouble just for her . |
| 11 | She still found it hard to assimilate the way her life had changed so drastically in the course of a mere few days . |
| 12 | It annoyed her that , despite everything that had been said and done between them , and which obviously had meant absolutely nothing to him , since his attitude towards her was the same as it had ever been , she still found it difficult to control her emotions in his presence . |
| 13 | Jane appreciated Doug 's perseverance but she still found it difficult to raise the necessary enthusiasm . |
| 14 | She clearly found it hard to sort out the implications of what was being suggested . |
| 15 | Because the development officer in Ipswich was not able to see these institutionalised clients in their own homes she understandably found it hard in many cases to say whether or not she agreed with the decision that they should not return home . |
| 16 | She also made it clear that Conductive Education is not the only method , and admitted that other methods are used with success . |
| 17 | When she was calmer , she also made it clear that she felt that a stricter approach that forced Balbinder to concentrate and work harder was all that was needed . |
| 18 | She also made it clear that she preferred to be alone . |
| 19 | She also found it intolerable to have her husband 's old girlfriends around . |
| 20 | She also found it distasteful to be discussing Nora 's lover in this way . |
| 21 | She vigorously criticized William Smellie [ q.v. ] , who taught midwifery to surgeons using a leather mannequin , but she also considered it unethical to oblige poor women in charitable institutions to give birth in the presence of male students . |
| 22 | As team manager she often found it hard being the middle person , caught between the demands of the team and the bureaucracy of a committee in England . |
| 23 | Sometimes she even found it oppressive , living in the middle of it . |
| 24 | She actually made it interesting , because I think you think , oh dear , gypsies ! |