Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] her [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe he 'd brought her here to act as some kind of pawn in a game he played with Marianne , she realised dully . |
| 2 | I imagine it would n't have taken her long to captivate you . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the two years they had been operating , Stephen had taught her never to lose her temper with the guests , however unreasonable , but to try to win them over . |
| 5 | That fact had aroused her enough to make her display her feminine assets to best advantage . |
| 6 | When she asked him if they had really been as beautiful as angels , he had told her abruptly to look at the portraits , just as now , sensing that she had been hounded out of the house , he had given her something to do , a task to occupy her hands and head . |
| 7 | Deborah Sherwin , defending Miller , said she had sold her home to set up the fish stall at Redcar and Ferryhill markets but when her marriage broke up her husband took over running the stall on the understanding it would provide for their daughter . |
| 8 | And he had found her somewhere to live . |
| 9 | He had asked her never to do that . |
| 10 | So I 've asked her just to phone cancel it out , and that should just be the end of it . |
| 11 | It made Claudia stare for a moment , but she was too concerned with the man who had forced her here to worry about other people 's bad taste . |
| 12 | Binchy 's father , a lawyer , had warned her never to put anyone real into her fiction , and she has stuck to his advice with only minor deviations : Benny in Circle of Friends was in part a self-portrait — a safe enough liberty ; and a mean friend of her mother found her way , disguised , into The Lilac Bus . |
| 13 | He had warned her never to put anything on it . |
| 14 | We have brought her here to die and we know it . |