Example sentences of "not [vb infin] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should not think her a woman who had let herself go . |
| 2 | You would not think her unduly burdened with worries , if you watched her crossing the campus , smiling at people she knows , her eyes bright , her brow unfurrowed . |
| 3 | He had said ‘ we ’ , which heartened McAllister enormously but also meant that she must try to justify his confidence , and not let him down ; he must not think her a fine lady only playing at life — she meant to do her share , and yet try not to hinder him . |
| 4 | It was simply that the squalor of her house did not affect her . |
| 5 | But such sweet reasoning did not comfort her . |
| 6 | But that support , which the Nobel committee acknowledges , does not make her a guerrilla . |
| 7 | But this does not make her feel less irritated . |
| 8 | I could not make her understand it was herself , and I began to be afraid that her illness was real . |
| 9 | Fenna did not want her to menstruate , Fenna would not allow her to desire . |
| 10 | Fenna did not want her to bleed , and because Fenna did not want it , she had not wanted it either . |
| 11 | Salah did not need to persuade himself ; and his Egyptian teacher was also anxious that his daughter should continue — — but he did not want her to be the only one . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't believe he likes Brownies , ’ she confided to her best friend , Mary Trent , ‘ and if he does n't and Brown Owl married him he might not want her to go on being our Brown Owl . ’ |
| 13 | Similarly Mr. Pope , who was looking after his wife , said he did not want her to be anywhere else but at home : |
| 14 | Liz was prepared to allow the therapist to talk to her parents , but she did not want her to tell them about her problems concerning the shop , preferring to discuss these with them herself . |
| 15 | If she is severely disturbed emotionally , above the level normally expected in bereavement , and if she can not sleep , he may prescribe tranquillisers and a night sedative ; but this will usually be only for a limited period to help her over a particularly bad patch , as he will not want her to become addicted to these drugs , which if taken for too long may delay the normal grieving process which she will need to experience if she is to make a satisfactory recovery . |
| 16 | I also told her that there was no guarantee that she would come up with the answer the first time she was regressed , as this would be a new experience for her and her ever-protective subconscious would not want her to be upset in any way . |
| 17 | He killed Perez because ‘ she wanted to stay with him but he did not want her ’ , police said . |
| 18 | I did not want her to face the rings that dissolve into the banks of time 's pond when the dead-weight falls to its depths . |
| 19 | Mr. Hallworth 's evidence was that he did not want her to enter into the transaction , but she said she wanted to go ahead with it . |
| 20 | She could hardly descend on Giovanna Sassanta 's house without an appointment , and Anthony had made it abundantly clear that he did not want her to cross the threshold of his hospital . |
| 21 | After all those months of fighting the knowledge that Anthony did not want her much , it was a heavenly feeling . |
| 22 | He did not want her to think he was gloating . |
| 23 | He did not want her to do that , to draw the attention of his colleagues . |
| 24 | Lina 's family will not want her to see me , but I am quite convinced she herself would welcome my presence . |
| 25 | " Amabel , there 'll be nobody in Frizingley to touch you , " said John-William Dallam , sitting down rather heavily since he had run upstairs a little too quickly at her call and did not want her to see how easily , these days , he could lose his breath . |
| 26 | He did not want her here . |
| 27 | ‘ I do not want her ; I have never wanted her . |
| 28 | He dared not pull away , even though he did not want her to feel his changing body , but at this point one of her gentle caresses touched the corner of his mouth and before he could stop himself his mouth was on hers , and restrain himself as he might it was a lover 's kiss , not a friend 's . |
| 29 | At first she had been surprised when a flask and a chunk of bread had been tossed down to her that first night , until she had remembered that de Raimes did not want her dead just yet . |
| 30 | For a start , she had n't seen Rosemary for fifteen minutes and she did not want her to feel left out . |