Example sentences of "her [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , rather than getting upset about this it spurs her on to try harder to show that they are worth watching . |
| 2 | After she reaches the mountain stronghold of the guerrillas , the ‘ Old Woman with the 2 pistols ’ who leads the guerrillas , commiserates with her , but she rallies round , and makes a speech saying that her husband 's death will spur her on to fight with new vigour for the Liberation . |
| 3 | He put her on to Mortgage Business , a company which offers high equity loans for the self-employed . |
| 4 | His frankly delighted countenance spurred her on to effort : ‘ I myself , ’ she heard herself saying , ‘ am very much looking forward to going to Japan for the first time . |
| 5 | ‘ Your absence meant that I had her all to myself at breakfast — with the additional pleasure of escorting her personally to school . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ My cousin is something of a wine connoisseur , Mr Tyler , ’ said Miss Amy Hall as he escorted her in to dinner . |
| 7 | It was Robert who took her in to dinner . |
| 8 | However , once again it was he who took her in to dinner . |
| 9 | He took her in to dinner . |
| 10 | When the Rector gravely offered Alexandra his arm to take her in to dinner , Robert 's face fell so utterly that she took his arm as well , and moved lopsidedly from the room between her ill-assorted escorts to the unspeakable anguish of the baby . |
| 11 | Well , Herman Schrijver says he will hire a car when the warm weather comes and drive her down to lunch with me in the Green Belt … . |
| 12 | Was this his way of cutting her down to size ? |
| 13 | It was the sound of a dull thud from the direction of the bedroom which brought her down to earth with shattering finality , icing her blood , freezing her to the spot . |
| 14 | At eighteen , in love with love , she 'd accepted his ring and walked on air until common sense had brought her down to earth and made her realise that marriage to him would be a total disaster . |
| 15 | ‘ Parents may think the best thing to do with a nervous child is to tell him or her not to worry . |
| 16 | There was a knock on the door in the early hours of the morning , she had curlers in her hair , and my father , thinking it was for him , told her not to panic . |
| 17 | Every instinct in her told her not to care , but as she had looked at him she had been all too aware of his lean virility and of her responses to it . |
| 18 | Ben had warned her not to baby the boy , especially not in front of anyone . |
| 19 | Ruth thought her aunt would have sat up all night to prolong the time with them , but her uncle — who had tried bravely all day to behave as though nothing untoward was happening — put his arms around his wife 's shoulders and led her away to bed . |
| 20 | He held her away to arm 's length , his kindly brown eyes sweeping her face as though searching for clues . |
| 21 | But he was smiling broadly as he held her away to arm 's length . |
| 22 | His abrupt departure left her close to collapse . |
| 23 | Of course that does n't mean that she does n't leave her home to work , it just means that the home is where she visualizes herself , wherever she is … |
| 24 | Mabel was too cold to move so he had to lift her out and carried her home to Mum . |
| 25 | She hoped very much to meet someone this morning , Dorothea perhaps , or Alida Thorne , or Mrs Bottingley , wife of the Rector , for they might invite her home to coffee and she could confide in them . |
| 26 | It must have been really strange for her , going to a new school all on her own , and a convent school at that , with nuns like great black crows floating down the corridors and carrying her off to chapel . |
| 27 | As we shall see , these days the concept of parental responsibility seems to demand considerably more involvement in a child 's education than simply packing him or her off to school every day . |
| 28 | Nah — we 'll give her something to make her feel like one of the Blessed , and ship her off to Heaven happy . |
| 29 | Disturbed , Isa proposed Wilson and Pilade should come with her up to Bellosguardo for the afternoon and , since no protest was made , she hustled the two of them into her waiting carriage and whisked them off at once , leaving Maria with instructions to be there upon their return . |
| 30 | If she let it , the food would jump into her mouth and swell her up to grossness . |