Example sentences of "it be [adv] [prep] her [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's up to her to decide . |
| 2 | This is the world of self-effacing service in which the heroine moves with assurance : even if servitors are visible , it is not for her to notice them . |
| 3 | She still maintains it is not for her to disassociate herself from people over whom she has no control . |
| 4 | It is enough for her to know that things are going badly for Mrs Thatcher and the Tory party ; the details of the Westland affair do not engage her interest . |
| 5 | It is so like her to ask if you may go and nurse her until the spring , like her self-indulgence — ’ |
| 6 | She did n't know what , but it was n't like her to skirt an issue . |
| 7 | The policewoman shot her a look which said that it was not for her to say so , even if she , herself , had been thinking it . |
| 8 | It was not for her to criticise him . |
| 9 | If he felt that his work lay here , it was not for her to question his decision , but she sometimes wished that something might happen to make him change his mind . |
| 10 | He had banged his glass on the table and it was not for her to disobey . |
| 11 | It was not like her to flirt with married Englishmen . |
| 12 | But after a further month 's reflection she changed her mind and wrote to Moira that it was up to her to do something about ‘ the incompetence of your staff at Harriet Street [ which ] is now causing BA and myself sleepless nights ’ . |
| 13 | It was up to her to rectify that as best she could . |
| 14 | Would she feel nowadays it was up to her to make contact ? ’ |
| 15 | He was attracted to her , as any red-blooded male would be to any presentable woman in these circumstances , but that was as far as it went and it was up to her to make sure her own feelings did n't betray her . |
| 16 | Now it was up to her to prove that Josey was right . |
| 17 | It was up to her to get herself and the twins out of here , back to the safety of their apartment — and clearly any display of outrage or temperament was only going to delay matters . |
| 18 | Perhaps she felt it was up to her to enter the ‘ artistic ’ world to which Arnold remained a devoted but remote outsider . |
| 19 | It was up to her to try and work out a plan of escape , but without expert help that was n't going to be easy . |
| 20 | It was most unlike her to wake before it was time to get up . |
| 21 | It was exactly like her to go away and not get in touch with her parents . |
| 22 | It was so unlike her to slump that I felt a new alarm . |
| 23 | ( It was so unlike her to tease . ) |