Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] her " in BNC.

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1 nearly killed herself , she stuffed a up her fanny and it stuffed all her
2 The wine — had she really allowed it to dim all her common sense , lull her into a false sense of security ?
3 Yet when her visitor stepped a couple of paces forward as though requiring a closer look , it needed all her courage not to back away .
4 The images his words had triggered were running riot in her brain , and it took all her strength to blot them out .
5 It took all her strength to reach out for the receiver and raise it stiffly to her ear .
6 She thought that she knew who the lucky man might be , and it took all her strength of mind not to betray the dreadful emotions which merely thinking of him aroused in her .
7 She watched him nervously and then he casually stretched up and removed his damp shirt so that it took all her powers , her resolutions , to appear composed in sight of his taut , powerful torso .
8 When they crested a wooded hill shortly before sunset and saw cultivated fields stretching down towards a small village in the distance it took all her will-power not to beg that they stop there for the night .
9 It took all her determination to stand her ground until finally he brushed past her .
10 She 'd only been annoyed because it upset all her work plans .
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