Example sentences of "not take her [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Apparently it did not take her long to provide services for both husband and wife . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It had not taken her long to discover the team 's skills ran to more than mere mountaineering . |
| 5 | — Amadou does n't take her home to show to Amadé . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It did n't take her long to regret taking part . |
| 8 | It did n't take her long to realise that he could n't really be spending much time here . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It did n't take her long to change into her jade swimsuit and moments later she walked on to the poolside . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Perhaps , but it had n't taken her long to work out what the boy really was . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It had n't taken her long to discover that they had nothing whatsoever in common . |