Example sentences of "her [noun] [conj] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Playboy was described as a pleasure-primer , its symbol was a rabbit and its bait was the Playmate of the month , the girl who was unfolded in the centre wearing a staple through her navel but not much else . |
| 2 | I demand to be paid for the hours I put in , whether your cousin passes her exams or not ! ’ |
| 3 | I have to be paid whether she passes her exams or not . ’ |
| 4 | Angelica , trying to place her accent but not managing it , said , ‘ You should see it when the season gets going , it 's madness . |
| 5 | Jacob looked happily on Violette , gaining reassurance from her presence if not her words . |
| 6 | Whether Dr Neil had noticed her hesitation or not , he said to the little woman — ignoring both Sally-Anne 's anger over his cruelty , and her thanks — which just went to show , she thought crossly , that it was no use trying to placate the unpleasant creatures — ‘ Matey , you will make us all a hot pot of tea , strong and sweet . |
| 7 | The shoemaker 's daughter was pretty enough but poorly dressed with a Welsh shawl over her shoulders and not even a hat to cover her hair . |
| 8 | Luke Calder would be a bad man to cross , and suddenly she was glad that this time he was on her side and not the opposition 's . |
| 9 | Barbara Coleman made a little jump backwards , a shaking hand went to her lips but not fast enough to cut off her cry of fear . |
| 10 | She opened her eyes and not trusting her tongue any longer simply looked at Steve . |
| 11 | It was as if the bombing was draining her of all feeling , leaving her so spent that all she wanted to do was to close her eyes and not open them again until it was all over . |
| 12 | ‘ For nothing , David , ’ said Julia , knowing that it was her fault and not his that they had got so near the brink . |
| 13 | A young man once told us , following a talk on sex and relationships , that the reason he fondled his fiancée 's breasts was for her pleasure and not his . |
| 14 | She had n't really believed it herself , not all of it anyway ; so when her mother started telling her that what Davy Treffry had said was more or less true , she wanted to put her hands over her ears and not listen ; she did n't want to know about the argument there had been between her father and her Uncle Harry ; she did n't want to hear about how they picked their wives by some silly fishing competition . |
| 15 | Anyway , her cancer as such was not actively discussed , so only her loss and not the cause of her loss was ever aired . |
| 16 | The arguments for treating disturbed , delinquent and deprived children alike are based on the assumption that the child is the product of his or her home and not a totally separate responsible individual . |
| 17 | His hair was almost black , heavy and smoothly groomed , swept back from a face that was icily cold , only the long , humorous-looking mouth telling her that this hostility was solely for her benefit and not some natural mannerism . |
| 18 | He looked at her from under those thick dark lashes , as though contemplating whether to answer her question or not . |
| 19 | Thanks to Ma really , he thought , and grinned , thanks to her fall and not being able to manage the washing herself . |
| 20 | And on this she turned away ; and Agnes got to her feet and not until then did she realise how tired and even sick she was feeling . |
| 21 | She expected to be told to get on with her work and not waste time , but instead Miss Phoebe became unusually animated . |
| 22 | The jobless Middlesbrough girl , whose father attended the hearing , was ordered as conditions of bail to live with her parents and not to see her baby . |
| 23 | The short answer to that is I think that she had not forfeited her right to be maintained by her husband by being in desertion : she had only suspended her right and not destroyed it . |
| 24 | I like to think that Miranda will survive her crisis and not be as depressed and defeated as she is now . |
| 25 | Molly spoke quietly and in English , only for the purpose of relieving her feelings and not in the expectation that this woman would understand . |
| 26 | Then she would find her pride and not indulge in this kind of behaviour when it had no future . |
| 27 | If only she could jump on her back and not stop galloping until she got to Ricky and Palm Springs . |
| 28 | ‘ The Methodists never made much headway with the Machin family , ’ said Rose , still keeping her distance and not looking him in the eye . |
| 29 | She recognized her name but not the other word . |
| 30 | A FURIOUS father crippled his ex-lover after she entered their son in a bonny baby contest in her name and not his . |