Example sentences of "[not/n't] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Victorine protested that she did not need a new scarf and that green was not her colour . |
2 | Well — perhaps white was simply not her colour . |
3 | She was a good critic , despite her egocentricity , and decided briskly and miserably that writing was not her métier . |
4 | But , so far away , might not her anxiety lighten , take on some perspective ? |
5 | Iritnefert was not her daughter . |
6 | He was inclined to believe her : her anger was a natural reaction to his accusation that she had been prying into data which was not her concern . |
7 | She thought that what he had said was likely to be either partially or totally untrue , but it was not her concern . |
8 | He glanced towards Rain but she took the lofty view that bribing security men was not her concern . |
9 | Grief was not her concern . |
10 | She had been persistent , and after all it was not her concern . |
11 | She moved to switch out the light , forgetting that it was not her lamp that glowed on the bedside table , but he caught her arm , oh-so-very-gently , this time . |
12 | Mona had missed the news and the Announcer reading some late information as a postscript was not her favourite . |
13 | She feels that their culture is not her culture , and they have had many arguments about the way she dresses ; in particular a recent , violent one about wanting to cut her hair . |
14 | And , by best interests , as you know , I mean her studies , not her love life . ’ |
15 | Turn up at the editor 's office ( not her Gailness , I assure you ) , demonstrate a new Windows software package to do with health and safety , go away . |
16 | She told me this with her lips , not her voice . |
17 | There was a cry followed by an awful groan , but it was not her voice . |
18 | ‘ You are all the same , ’ ’ he said , imitating not her voice but its angry cadence . |
19 | His mother sat ready , having changed her cap but not her dress . |
20 | ‘ Our ’ health visitor was not going to be there after all because it was not her turn to do this session . |
21 | She must have been born before his return to Ayrshire but whether or not her name was changed is not known . |
22 | She had prepared her new age , if not her name . |
23 | Beneath the photograph was printed not her name , but a sobriquet , a common practice — Mrs Langtry was always know as ‘ The Jersey Lily ’ . |
24 | That 's not her name ! |
25 | Her sins pursued her but I was not her judge . ’ |
26 | It 's not her tit I want you to grab , it 's her attention . |
27 | Whether or not her warning was genuine , she had come boldly to his room to ask for his escort to Winchester . |
28 | Jane withdrew , not her presence , but her mind , as a tortoise withdraws its head . |
29 | She could not go back , because we had disposed of the business , along with her tools and much of her furniture , but not her fender , which would arrive at Hale-wood in due course . |
30 | Not that one , ’ he pointed at Flavia , ‘ that 's not her problem yet . ’ |