Example sentences of "she [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paralysed in its grip , she kept telling herself , over and over again , that she must n't leave him to drown : whatever Bella had said to her , however much she herself hated him , there was no point in pretending to herself that she could abandon anyone , not even him , to die . |
| 2 | She must n't irritate him . |
| 3 | She must n't let him take the rise out of her like that . |
| 4 | She must not fail him . |
| 5 | She must not lose him again . |
| 6 | But perhaps Gabriel and Boldwood were right , and she should not see him again ? |
| 7 | On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him . |
| 8 | And , in the end , she might not lose him after all … |
| 9 | Oddly , though , even when she opened her mouth to betray her pact with Naylor , she found that she could not betray him . |
| 10 | She endured his lovemaking , sometimes she even enjoyed it , but for the greater part she could not love him in the way he truly deserved . |
| 11 | When they got out of the cab she could not shake him off . |
| 12 | But she could not tell him her real reason for trying to dissuade him . |
| 13 | She felt she could not tell him the truth to his face , but there was another way . |
| 14 | The poser being , of course , that she could not tell him either the true reason she was here , or even who she really was . |
| 15 | Both of them realised that he had abandoned all pretence that Sally-Anne was an ordinary young woman come to work in Vetch Street , but neither of them pursued the matter , Dr Neil from delicacy , and Sally-Anne because she could not tell him the real truth about herself — he would undoubtedly immediately send her back to the embassy , and she did not want that at all — it would be failure . |
| 16 | She could not tell him about Havvie ; neither could she speak the lie to him , not to Dr Neil , but she could not tell him the truth , for that would mean telling him who she was , and she could not tell him that , not here , not now ; it would spoil everything between them if he knew that she was the spoiled and pampered American Princess . |
| 17 | She could not tell him about Havvie ; neither could she speak the lie to him , not to Dr Neil , but she could not tell him the truth , for that would mean telling him who she was , and she could not tell him that , not here , not now ; it would spoil everything between them if he knew that she was the spoiled and pampered American Princess . |
| 18 | She could not tell him about Havvie ; neither could she speak the lie to him , not to Dr Neil , but she could not tell him the truth , for that would mean telling him who she was , and she could not tell him that , not here , not now ; it would spoil everything between them if he knew that she was the spoiled and pampered American Princess . |
| 19 | For she could not bear him to be unhappy — even if it meant that she must … |
| 20 | Wild and feverish with excitement , she sat down immediately to write to Boldwood , to inform him that she could not marry him . |
| 21 | I realized he had been listening until he heard Catherine say she could not marry him . |
| 22 | She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead . |
| 23 | She knew she could not fail him . |
| 24 | And truly , she could not blame him . |
| 25 | His hatred since was channelled towards Beth , and , in all truth , she could not blame him for it . |
| 26 | She could not stop him . |
| 27 | When she saw that she could not stop him she tried another tack . |
| 28 | She could not picture him behind the grim walls of Swansea Prison , instead she remembered him riding with her in the park , smiling down at her with his dark eyes , making her feel so small and helpless . |
| 29 | " Why does n't your father tell him to go ? " asked Clara , for from what she could recollect of Mr Denham , she could not picture him suffering fools gladly . |
| 30 | But she could not hold him off ! |