Example sentences of "she [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | It did n't take her long to realise that he could n't really be spending much time here . |
| 33 | It did n't take her long to regret taking part . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Apparently it did not take her long to provide services for both husband and wife . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Perhaps , but it had n't taken her long to work out what the boy really was . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | I imagine it would n't have taken her long to captivate you . |
| 44 | It had n't taken her long to discover that they had nothing whatsoever in common . |
| 45 | It had not taken her long to discover the team 's skills ran to more than mere mountaineering . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | It did n't take her long to change into her jade swimsuit and moments later she walked on to the poolside . |
| 48 | The thought sobered her enough to allow him to urge her onwards . |
| 49 | Who could hate her enough to do such a thing ? |
| 50 | Her poetry indicates that Leapor did have some friends before meeting Freemantle ; Octavia , for example , respected her enough to listen to her advice , even if she probably did not accept it . |
| 51 | Her beautiful face would have persuaded most men , including Troy if he had not been married to her , but he no longer loved her enough to agree to anything she wanted . |
| 52 | As he had once said to John , you took Comfort as she was or you ignored her , and he enjoyed her enough to put up with her . |
| 53 | But he disliked her enough to postpone it . |
| 54 | Mrs Parvis gave no sign of being interested in her , let alone liking her enough to want to touch her . |
| 55 | Knowing that Adam always liked to keep his options open , Miranda was forced to the lonely conclusion that he did n't love her enough to commit himself to her for life . |
| 56 | DSD not only wanted her , they wanted her enough to offer her six weeks working as an apprentice at Chanel , in Paris . |
| 57 | What if she had had a threatening letter which worried her enough to make her turn to pills ? ’ |
| 58 | That fact had aroused her enough to make her display her feminine assets to best advantage . |
| 59 | The twins , David and Michael , had been prowling about in the front garden waiting for the sight of Belinda 's car , and as soon as she stepped out into the driveway and came up the path to the house they raced ahead of her inside to relay the news of her arrival , without even saying hello to her . |
| 60 | He did not want to bring her in to talk to him , nor did he want to interview her in the presence of her devoted but sharp-eyed husband . |