Example sentences of "it be [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | This house suddenly felt as if it were suffocating her . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's hit her pretty hard . ’ |
| 3 | I remember her saying , slightly on the defensive , ‘ It 's an investment , ’ and I thought , It 's made her even more determined to succeed . |
| 4 | It 's made her look much better , she 's put on weight , and stopped smoking . |
| 5 | ‘ And a fat lot of good it 's done her . ’ |
| 6 | It 's costing her a lot of money . |
| 7 | But then she says it 's stopping her getting Carl down . |
| 8 | Now it 's driving her . |
| 9 | It 's left her partially blind and a semi-invalid , an easy target for robbers . |
| 10 | If your elderly parent is in the habit of doing this , the only way around it is to tell her quite frankly , as kindly as possible ( even at the risk of giving some offence ) , that there are certain times of the day when it is very difficult for you to make or receive phone calls except in an emergency . |
| 11 | It was to surprise her . |
| 12 | Only the tightly clenched line of her jawbone revealed the enormous effort it was taking her just to stand upright . |
| 13 | And it was destroying her . |
| 14 | Because it was destroying her , these violent swings from high to low , the arousing of needs that had no right to be fulfilled . |
| 15 | It was to stop her . |
| 16 | The examination under anaesthesia without consent is inexplicable ( unless it was to punish her for having refused examination when conscious ) . |
| 17 | It was bearing her away . |
| 18 | It was buying her some time and some space , nothing more . |
| 19 | And you know she treasures it because it was given her by a grateful patient centuries ago . |
| 20 | A man certainly came that night but it was to see her , not her husband . ’ |
| 21 | She was still shivering with indignation , but when she looked up at her grandmother , it was to see her shivering too , but with suppressed laughter . |
| 22 | He told us what sport it was to take her to the ‘ Houtsize ‘ 0use ’ in London , first putting her on the Inner Circle , getting off smartly himself , and leaving her to go round and round until his amusement wore off . |
| 23 | Gradually she came to realize that it was reminding her of her father — her father and the allotment . |
| 24 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 25 | It was as if she had smelt a meal cooking in the next room ; it might not be a meal she wanted to eat , but already it was nourishing her . |
| 26 | When he woke it was to find her sitting beside him on the bed , watching him . |
| 27 | The secret should be kept as long as possible but , the longer I waited , the harder it was to tell her . |
| 28 | I had no idea it was upsetting her . ’ |
| 29 | It was tearing her apart to know how much he must love the pale , blank-eyed girl . |
| 30 | She felt it probing her mind , as if it was asking her a question , searching for something in her mind . |