Example sentences of "not [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was desperate enough to consider rushing round the table pretending to be Pumblechook 's carriage , but I could not make myself do it , and just stood there helplessly . |
| 2 | It would be better to admit that these murderous wishes and impulses exist than to deny them , and feel guilt-laden as a result of not allowing ourselves to see them for what they are . |
| 3 | As she stood there , heart racing , just for a moment Lisa did not trust herself to answer him . |
| 4 | How many pennies per gram , I would prefer that too , so just sort of choose one way and stick to it , I always do it that way , and then you 're not confusing yourself doing it different ways . |
| 5 | Vienna Dear Fräulein Arandt , I am sorry you could not bring yourself to tell me about your parents . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a very rare model , but while I ca n't get fired up to restoring it at the moment , I just can not bring myself to sell it , ’ is Gordon 's dilemma . |
| 7 | When I plucked up the courage to ask my mother about it she just burst into tears and I could not bring myself to question her again . |
| 8 | But he could not bring himself to do it , especially not now , after Simon had revealed how she had spoken up for him . |
| 9 | And a photographer told how he saw a girl of about six so severely burned that a fireman could not bring himself to treat her by dousing her with a hose . |
| 10 | He could not bring himself to say it . |
| 11 | But Harry could not bring himself to condemn him . |
| 12 | She wanted desperately to confide in someone about this , but once again found it impossible to find anyone suitable her mother was too distraught , her father was dead , and she could not bring herself to mention it to Miriam for fear of provoking some too blunt observations on the mysterious workings of a lady 's insides . |
| 13 | Still she could not bring herself to touch him , until , turning his head , she saw the scar , and without thinking leaned forward to kiss that , a butterfly kiss like his , to show him that she loved him — and his scar . |
| 14 | These doubts , hard to pin down , because reason easily disposed of them all , crystallised around the fact that Comrade Andrew too often smelled of drink ; she could not bring herself to criticise him for his partiality to the goose-girl , because she had learned so long ago and so thoroughly simply to switch off in this area . |
| 15 | She could not bring herself to do it . |
| 16 | Despite the strength of her misgivings , she could not bring herself to voice them . |
| 17 | All explanations , all excuses were crude and deadly , and she could not bring herself to make them , but she could not sit there either , contemplating her own slow lapse from grace . |
| 18 | She can not bring herself to eat it . |
| 19 | They believed in the myth and Diana could not bring herself to tell them the awful truth . |
| 20 | I had tried hard to destroy all feelings of love for him , but now that I saw him again , I could not stop myself loving him . |
| 21 | The following paragraphs pointed out that in unlimited competitions , although successful competitors can reasonably expect to be employed , the Government can not bind itself to employ them , but in this case they should be employed on the new Foreign Office . |
| 22 | She would not allow herself to see it . |
| 23 | It seemed to me that my personal disaster was so great that hitherto I had not allowed myself to understand it . |