Example sentences of "her [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came to the house in response to a card Miss Matlock had placed in a local newsagent 's window and Miss Matlock took her on to replace a cleaning woman who had recently left . ’ |
| 2 | Marc had already admitted he had been leading her on to see what she would do . |
| 3 | It seems likely that his preoccupation with her promisingly clever older sister , Jenny ( Jane Alice ) , caused unhappiness in May 's childhood and further spurred her on to succeed in the practical arts . |
| 4 | It was men like Terence Lewis who had spurred her on to get where she was today . |
| 5 | Curiosity egged her on to add : ‘ Why d'thee ask ? ’ |
| 6 | Well I sa , I mean I took her on to look after her and I did n't think there would any problem |
| 7 | She handed him the tube , being fairly and correctly sure he would not ask her outright to rub it in for him . |
| 8 | And he had found her somewhere to live . |
| 9 | IMP had paid her generously , and she 'd hoarded the little money she 'd made on her flat once it had been sold , but it still had n't been enough to buy her somewhere to live . |
| 10 | People I had n't yet identified beckoned her eagerly to join them , which she did with the ravishing smile she had loosed once or twice in my direction . |
| 11 | He allowed her gently to propel him towards the sitting room , all the while murmuring , ‘ Always puzzled me … always puzzled me . ’ |
| 12 | Roman put his hands on her shoulders and turned her gently to face him . |
| 13 | His hands were on her shoulders , turning her gently to face him . |
| 14 | It had not taken her long to realise that here was a vindictive old villain , bent on making her life as miserable as he possibly could . |
| 15 | It did n't take her long to realise that he could n't really be spending much time here . |
| 16 | It did n't take her long to regret taking part . |
| 17 | It did n't take her long to dress , freshen her make-up and add touches of silver jewellery on ears , neck and wrists , and it was quite a bit less than Tom 's stipulated twenty minutes later when she approached the veranda again . |
| 18 | Angelica reckoned that she was a reasonable judge of people — one could hardly be a nurse for twenty years without picking up one hell of a lot of insight — and it had n't taken her long to decide that Alina Peterson was either dead straight or very plausible . |
| 19 | It did n't take her long to decide she had precisely two choices — well , one , really , because even though it was n't cold it would look wrong to go out in thin cotton to the sort of party he was talking about . |
| 20 | Apparently it did not take her long to provide services for both husband and wife . |
| 21 | It had n't taken her long to clear out her room at the nurses ' home this morning , and her father had come over at lunch to take several boxes of things back to his suburban home for storage . |
| 22 | It should n't have taken her long to pack and change out of her sundress into a skirt and blouse , but she found she was folding each garment at least twice , and several times she stood looking out of the window at the busy yard below . |
| 23 | It did n't take her long to pack the few clothes she would need , even though her mind was far away in the past . |
| 24 | Perhaps , but it had n't taken her long to work out what the boy really was . |
| 25 | It did not take her long to work out that the meal was going to cost her considerably more than she 'd saved by spending a rather miserable night in rue Roland . |
| 26 | I imagine it would n't have taken her long to captivate you . |
| 27 | It had n't taken her long to discover that they had nothing whatsoever in common . |
| 28 | It had not taken her long to discover the team 's skills ran to more than mere mountaineering . |
| 29 | Nor had it taken her long to discover the source of her aunt 's woes , and now the reason for them returned to her mind . |
| 30 | It did n't take her long to change into her jade swimsuit and moments later she walked on to the poolside . |