Example sentences of "she not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did she not realize just how awful it had made me feel ? |
| 2 | Could she not ? |
| 3 | ‘ How can she not ? ’ said Francis . |
| 4 | How could she and how could she not give it up ? |
| 5 | There is something reflexive rather than rational , automatic rather than deliberative , circumscribed and autonomous rather than holistic about parsing a sentence such as ‘ She met John before Mary arrived at the airport ’ in the way we do ( with the pronoun she not referring to Mary but to some other female ) . |
| 6 | The stress and strain on muscles and joints is considerable , but why has she not sent the doctor 's certificate as a matter of courtesy to the tournament authorities ? |
| 7 | And a decade later , when the term ‘ has-been ’ seemed almost an understatement , she not only gratefully accepted but gleefully flung herself into the high camp , Low Gothic shenanigans of Robert Aldrich 's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane ? ( 1962 ) , in which , with a gloating relish that neither her baby-doll fright wig nor her impenetrable pancake make-up could conceal , she set about tormenting her immemorial screen rival and alter ego ( or egoist ) , Joan Crawford . |
| 8 | Why had she not made connections between the secrecy , the silent , passively gloomy , growing of Maggie inside herself and this new , equally secret , growth ? |
| 9 | Why had she not made the connection and what , in any case , was the connection ? |
| 10 | God , O God , O God , did she not know anything ? |
| 11 | frank dropped his hands and would have fallen , had she not steadied him and guided his fingers back to the bandage . |
| 12 | Is she not here ? ’ |
| 13 | Then why did she not agree to it ? |
| 14 | But he agreed not to complain about her market-minded vision of the Community and she not to bully him about France 's half-in , half-out position in NATO . |
| 15 | Why had she not consulted them ? |
| 16 | Did she not understand that she had no need to fight me , to defend herself from me ? |
| 17 | Did she not understand that I would look after her , that 1 would see to it that she was safe and well ? |
| 18 | But she would n't go , and in any case might she not be misunderstood , ill-treated , and all my fault ? |
| 19 | Not here , surely , among strangers : yet where now was she not a stranger ? |
| 20 | She asked him if he would lift the bicycle over a stile for her , she not having realized there was a stile to be crossed when she had embarked over the fields by herself . |
| 21 | There was one member whose sight was so bad that when she read she not only had to prop a second pair of spectacles on top of the pair already resting on her nose , but also had to stand under the standard lamp almost pressed against the light bulb . |
| 22 | She was also a kind of mascot of the liberal intelligentsia — had she not come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heap to stand by Miller 's side defying the anti-Communist witch-hunters who wanted to jail him ? |
| 23 | How could she , how could she not remember , there was nothing else to think of , nothing to get in her way , to confuse her . |
| 24 | Yes , she would go into the country rather than to a seaside resort , for they were full of old , retired , ill-tempered people and had she not had her full share of that ? |
| 25 | She not only bit , kicked , and knocked them down ; but she would also hold a child on the ground by wrapping her jaws around the child 's throat , or bite a child in the face . |
| 26 | But Louisa , who had been brought up with her father 's constant comment that she was ‘ the prettiest girl in the world ’ , grew up with a very unreal need to feel praised and fêted for her looks , and when as a teenager she did n't get the same kind of compliments from other people , she not surprisingly felt unloved and unattractive as a result . |
| 27 | Did she not now have a husband , a child , a home ? |
| 28 | Has she not improved out of all recognition ? ’ |
| 29 | Was she not married to an Italian , with Italian sons ? |
| 30 | Had she not thought of her mistress first ? |