Example sentences of "not [verb] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlotte did not phrase her response as a rebuke , but it had much the same effect . |
| 2 | She came through the front door of the shop and was a little surprised at not seeing her husband behind the counter . |
| 3 | I do n't know , ’ replied Tess , who could not swallow her food . |
| 4 | All the ruthless attempts to force her from this allegiance have not shaken her faith . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And she had slept with Rufus in the Centaur Room , it being taken for granted she would share his bed , though Adam did not think her wishes had been consulted . |
| 7 | Pressing , as her distresses are , if I did not think her heart was rightly turned , I should be afraid of proposing such a measure , lest it should unsettle the sobriety of her mind , and , by exciting her vanity , indispose her for the laborious employments of her humble condition ; but it would be cruel to imagine that we can not mend her fortune without impairing her virtue . |
| 8 | Bernard refused her offer at first ; he did not think her English was fluent enough . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But he did not think her condition critical . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The final decision will only relate to where the girl lives and does not affect her parents ' other rights . |
| 13 | Though this following comment may not affect her work performance as such , Muriel is a person with strong views generally , particularly about religion . |
| 14 | In December 1977 the Headmistress of St Anselm 's School in Canterbury , one of Britain 's leading Roman Catholic Comprehensives , allowed a teacher who was a National Front candidate to continue in her post alter she had promised that her National Front views would not affect her treatment to black pupils . |
| 15 | Any guilt she many have felt for the loss of her son did not affect her longevity . |
| 16 | Fru Møller hoped that the Colonel had not registered her impatience . |
| 17 | She was so shy that she could n't look up when God passed over her , so God missed her and did not paint her blossom . |
| 18 | I ask you not to cheapen her life in your film . |
| 19 | Had she not treated her subordinates with vindictiveness and meanness , Elena 's desire to cut a figure as ‘ a world-ranking scientist ’ would have a comical charm . |
| 20 | Robyn generally favours loose dark clothes , made of natural fibres , that do not make her body into an object of sexual attention . |
| 21 | She wants an abortion and does not want her parents to know anything about it ’ — was no drawback . |
| 22 | At the same time Diana did not want her friends to see her in such a wretched , unhappy state . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | Her widowhood had thankfully not reduced her circumstances too drastically and had certainly not altered her sense of style . |
| 26 | On their way to the station she would not throw her coin into the Trevi Fountain . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | At least she had not compounded her remark by backing it up with an astrologer 's predictions . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Melanie , who was not enjoying her walk so far . |
| 30 | ‘ I will check anything — see if boy is knowing too many girls or girl is watching too many Hindi films and not pursuing her studies , ’ replied Mr Aggarwal . |