Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Honey decided that if she was going to get anywhere with these people she must not lose her temper . |
| 2 | Must not allow her senses any room to manoeuvre . |
| 3 | During the journey home she sat pondering this fact , at the same time realising she must not allow her thoughts to become emotionally involved with this devastating man . |
| 4 | There must be no encroachments : they must not appropriate her memories and make them theirs . |
| 5 | Antoinette , anxious that her illness should not upset her daughter in any way , agreed immediately . |
| 6 | He must n't guess her secret now . |
| 7 | But even so he stripped her without haste , all the while keeping up a slow calculated assault on her senses , until the only thought she could cling to was that she must n't reveal her love . |
| 8 | Helen , you must n't tug her skirt so , you will quite part it from the waistband . |
| 9 | She should n't blame her twin ; Roman had said he wanted Dana close to him , and who could wonder if her did ? |
| 10 | ‘ They 're lovely , Rob , ’ she murmured , moving away so that he should n't see her weakness , and forcing herself to say , ‘ Luke told me that the party was a huge success . |
| 11 | yeah but er yeah there , there 's a gre there 's a great er it 's a great shame actually erm we may not have Jenny for very much longer , they may not renew her contract which will be a big shame . |
| 12 | Though this following comment may not affect her work performance as such , Muriel is a person with strong views generally , particularly about religion . |
| 13 | We ought not to think her departure worthy of editorial attention . |
| 14 | Until then she had been tortured by fears that she might not recognise her son if she should see him . |
| 15 | On the other hand , although Sebastian Grantham might not understand her reluctance , he would respect it . |
| 16 | The notion that Bonard 's sexual inclinations were more likely to be directed towards Alain Gebrec than herself might not enter her head . |
| 17 | Owing to Amal 's seclusion as a female , she could not identify her attackers by name , only that they were acquaintances of her brother . |
| 18 | Jack Carey , an old friend of the family , had wanted to marry Susan years ago ; but she , of course , could not leave her father . |
| 19 | LATE at night an elderly woman rang Christine Hall to say that she had refused much-needed hospital treatment because she could not leave her dog , Holly . |
| 20 | It was symptomatic rather than part of the train of thought that led to his decision : Britain , as a great power , could not leave her security in the hands of the Americans , who , however friendly , could veer so unpredictably from generous international collaboration to self-centred isolationism . |
| 21 | But in the evening , in her room , she could not finish her letter to him . |
| 22 | And when Mrs Stych returned , looking like a fat Christmas fairy and complaining that she could not fix her wings , he was able to pin them onto her dress without rancour and to tell a thoroughly bawdy joke , which made Hank explode with laughter and his wife look outraged . |
| 23 | And here she was , with Frank Grimwood of all people , shaking so much she could not fix her spectacles on her nose . |
| 24 | Zoë Rashid now accepted that she could not visit her mother before she flew out to Syria . |
| 25 | On the substantive application W. , who had attained the age of 16 , exercised her right to separate representation and resisted the application on the ground that section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969conferred on her the same right as an adult to refuse medical treatment so that the court could not override her decision . |
| 26 | He could not distinguish her words but she sounded harassed and tense . |
| 27 | The hall light was still on and he put his ear to the letter box ; he could hear her voice on the telephone but could not distinguish her words . |
| 28 | She had experienced mounting terror at the thought of a new role in which she would certainly prove a failure — a woman who could not do her work , could not save her father , could not love her mother , could not satisfy her man , was most unlikely to make any sort of mother . |
| 29 | From a traditional Labour background , my mother rejected the politics of solidarity and communality , always voted Conservative , for the left could not embody her desire for things to be really fair , for a full skirt that took twenty yards of cloth , for a half-timbered cottage in the country , for the prince who did not come . |
| 30 | She could not build her life on another 's pain , or on Havvie 's lies . |