Example sentences of "[not/n't] bring [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But drafting for a fellow-barrister , though desirable for experience , does not bring one into contact with the instructing solicitor , and so does not nurture one 's own practice . |
| 32 | ‘ Why not bring her to next week 's fashion show and introduce her to me ? ’ he suggested . |
| 33 | I did not bring her anything ; I spoil her enough as it is . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ The trouble with T S , ’ says one long-time acquaintance , ‘ is that he can not bring himself to confide in anybody . ’ |
| 35 | But he could not bring himself to do it , especially not now , after Simon had revealed how she had spoken up for him . |
| 36 | No wonder that Abraham can not bring himself to name Isaac , or even refer to him as his son . |
| 37 | But Gaily could not bring himself to ask why she did not return to it . |
| 38 | He seldom corrected , and could not bring himself , as company teachers should , regularly to attend company performances to watch his pupils in action . |
| 39 | He could not bring himself to apologise . |
| 40 | When , in well-cut white satin and glycerine tears , she sobbed , Oh but Daddy I do love him , I do love him , he still tried to reason with her ; but then when he saw her hitching up the satin and running across the lawn , throwing off the veil , scattering the astonished wedding guests as she ran , and when he saw her jumping into a truck , not caring that she was getting petrol stains all over her broderie anglaise , jumping into a truck and not with the man they all expected her to love , but with the one she really loves , and then driving off with him in a cheap pickup truck to a motel in Wisconsin , shouting out , Goodbye Father , Goodbye Father ! as she goes ; well when he saw her doing that then Boy could not bring himself to disapprove . |
| 41 | He could not bring himself to look at her . |
| 42 | During the first visit he was in such low spirits he could not bring himself to meet even the faithful Cottle ; during the second , in early April , optimism and humour had sufficiently returned for him to relish a meeting with one especially talkative woman on his homeward walk . |
| 43 | Presumably he should have shot her or let her drown , rather than make a present of her to the French , but there were some things Karelius could not bring himself to do . |
| 44 | The Friar was bewildered by his loss and could not bring himself to think clearly about the disaster . |
| 45 | He could not bring himself to say it . |
| 46 | He can not bring himself to believe in dark powers and evil forces as expressed in biblical language . |
| 47 | Lung cancer victim Roy could not bring himself to shake the hand of the former Prime Minister , who is said to earn £550,000 as a consultant for US tobacco giant Philip Morris . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | At the last Arlott could not bring himself to sign the contract . |
| 50 | One of the gunmen had been instructed to kill Thakin Nu , who was elsewhere , but he could not bring himself to slay this man known for his religious piety . |
| 51 | Sycorax was lodged in his conscience and she lamed him , like a stone in a horse 's hoof ; yet he could not bring himself to have her murdered . |
| 52 | Though Musgrave did not bring himself to ask the soldier what he had seen , his impression was ‘ that Aimable had not been fattened up to the mark of the visitor 's large expectations ’ . |
| 53 | Brian could not bring himself to discard collar and tie but looked , always , slightly ashamed of them . |
| 54 | Herodotus can not bring himself to believe in a story which gives as the cause of centuries of rivalry ‘ nothing worse than woman-stealing on both sides ’ ( 42 ) , for he does not think the Greeks could possibly have gone to war over anything so trivial , and indeed he appears to concur with the Persian view that ‘ no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be ’ ( 42 ) . |
| 55 | But Harry could not bring himself to condemn him . |
| 56 | Releasing her abruptly , fitzAlan pulled Isabel 's arms away from him and held them , gazing down at her face as if the sight of her tormented him beyond bearing and yet he still could not bring himself to look away . |
| 57 | More importantly , he was not tonsured : Lothar , perhaps moved by the obligations of a godfather , could not bring himself thus to exclude Charles from the ranks of the throneworthy . |
| 58 | An unsporting Stratford Herald critic , leaving Shakespeare country for a night out in Coventry , could not bring himself to join in the fun . |
| 59 | Each passenger is a different face of white colonialism : the overt racist who can not bring himself to use a Black doctor to treat his sick wife ; the hypocritical racist who secretly has an affair with his Black housekeeper ; the white liberal who alternates between ’ slumming ’ it with the natives , and living with the whites , not quite willing or able to give up his white privilege . |
| 60 | He could not bring himself to say the words , so great was his terror of plague . |