Example sentences of "she [vb past] [not/n't] [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried not to drop her glance . |
| 2 | Lucy 's eyes widened , but she tried not to betray her surprise . |
| 3 | She decided not to shift her position . |
| 4 | And if she decided not to renew her contract she would soon be joining the ranks of the unemployed . |
| 5 | Regretfully she decided not to wash her hair ; it was so thick that it took ages to dry and she was sure his patience would n't last that long ; also she had to get to work . |
| 6 | The adult Eileen was quite intelligent enough to understand the devastating effects of those careless words on the child she had been — although she did not blame her mother in any way for using them . |
| 7 | While belatedly fulfilling her curtailed general education , she did not neglect her ambition to master the French language . |
| 8 | And she did not hide her feelings over the split with Gowersor her previous partner . |
| 9 | This was the case with a significant number of the girls talking here , for instance , Lorraine and Cathy , both of whose mothers had had children in their teens , and consequently had felt very sympathetic to what their daughters were going through , and Debbie 's mother , who had been more upset because she did not want her daughter to have the same sort of life as she had had . |
| 10 | ‘ You must listen to this , ’ said Hugo , and Valerie , out of simple love , stopped writing and listened , though Lover at the Gate was in mid-flow and she did not want her concentration spoiled : what she now put on the page was beginning to have the quality of automatic writing : she feared the cutting-in of her own rationality : doubt would come with it , and hesitation . |
| 11 | Hilda 's jaw was firmly set and she did not open her mouth . |
| 12 | Sergt. Peter Woodhouse of the Liverpool Police … she told the police that she did not think her husband was carrying out a strictly honest business . |
| 13 | For example , she was deeply opposed to opening in Manchester , as she did not think her type of customer lived there , but preferred to be associated with the older university towns or cathedral cities such as Bath or Edinburgh . |
| 14 | She did not love her husband but instead her husband 's brother . |
| 15 | Child of the vicarage , she did not press her Anglicanism against her husband 's nonconformity . |
| 16 | Mr Alan Williams , prosecuting , told the jury the girl was so ashamed she did not tell her parents until April and a ‘ hurried termination ’ was arranged . |
| 17 | She did not tell her mother that she and Edgar had separated . |
| 18 | Though , on looking across at him , and observing that one eyebrow had ascended aloft at what he must consider was the sharpness of her answer , she realised that she was never likely to get an interview if she did not control her exasperation at his evasive non-answers to most of her questions . |
| 19 | I asked Mrs Lyons a number of other questions , but she did not change her story , whatever I asked her . |
| 20 | Childishly , she did not extend her hand . |
| 21 | She did not repeat her last statement but she said , ‘ Go … go away , please . |
| 22 | But she claimed she did not know her cargo was heroin . |
| 23 | ‘ No ! ’ said Ellie , almost too emphatically , afraid that even though she did not know her own mind , he might withdraw his offer . |
| 24 | Emmie looked at the small , waxy face and felt that she did not know her grandmother any more . |
| 25 | She imagined that if she did not wipe her eyes , thrusting in a knuckle or a handkerchief , the tears would leave less trace . |
| 26 | Spanish-born Catalina , 50 , insists she did not force her husband 's hand in resigning as a Foreign Office Minister , though she admits her joy at his decision . |
| 27 | She did not let her gaze rise from this task . |
| 28 | It was Ana who came forward as Maggie came into the room , and clearly she did not let her blindness get in the way of being hostess for her brother . |
| 29 | She did not put her other hand down to feel her body . |
| 30 | She did not indicate her destination . |