Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [to-vb] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was much too weary to eat or even to open her post ; she would do that later . |
| 2 | She could feel her mother 's presence behind her but she refused to turn round or even to raise her head . |
| 3 | It was all too obvious what her plot was and she went straight away to see Mrs Browning , resolved to ask outright if Ferdinando was to go to France and if so to plead her case . |
| 4 | Old Florence had left as usual for East Gore to stay with Jim and Jean and ostensibly to clear her verandah room for Tina and the new baby , but really everyone knew it was to get out of the way before all the excitement . |
| 5 | " Well , pop the ideas right out of your head , " Sara said briskly , and then to soften her rejection of his advances , she added , " I 've got the most awful headache . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've told her again and again to toot her horn before crossing the main corridor , ’ grumbled the Headmaster . |
| 7 | Given that she is now at this moment incapable of giving or refusing a consent to the treatment which it is necessary in her interests , perhaps to save her life and certainly to advance her cure , I do not find myself satisfied that the refusal is a continuing one , evincing a settled intention on her part to persist in it and accepting , as I do , the father 's evidence that she would rather have blood than die , I declare that it shall be lawful for the hospital , in the circumstances prevailing , to administer blood to her , that being in her best interests . |
| 8 | A mother 's task is thus not to create something out of nothing but rather to dovetail her behaviour to that of the infant 's . [ … ] |
| 9 | Nothing that could be labelled as a breach of client-confidentiality , but enough to engage her attention . |
| 10 | And so , he comes and to reveal to her , her sinful condition and need but also to forgive her sin . |
| 11 | One morning when Harriet had gone early to Penzance not only to shop but also to have her hair done , Liza came downstairs in her dressing-gown to find her daughter and Edna having , unusually for them , an altercation . |