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Example sentences of "she did [not/n't] [vb infin] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Eventually Mrs Webster explained that she had had an evacuee before me , who had ‘ breathed on the wall ’ , and she did not want me to do likewise .
2	The touch of his hand on her body made her tremble , but she did not want him to stop .
3	She did not want him to hold her again .
4	And she did not want him to go .
5	And all she could think of , as she rose to her feet and politely accompanied him to the front door , was that , suddenly , she did not want him to leave .
6	She did not want him to exercise his leg until the infected burn had healed completely .
7	She had stolen many a glance at him since yesterday to see if perhaps there was anything that might show , but it was difficult , she did not want him to feel he was under examination , and anyway today the tired look was gone .
8	Although she had half hoped he might guess , she did not want him to guess now , she thought frantically .
9	God knew she did not want him lowered by doubt , or by pain , or by despair , as Lulach had once seemed to accuse her .
10	There could never be any resolution of her love for David , but she did not want him to think that his feelings were unwanted or unreciprocated .
11	She did not want him to think , she said , that she was really rich , that was only a kind of joke .
12	She said she did not want him staring at her , she wanted a bit of her life to herself ; without having to share it with Randolph Ash .
13	She hoped she did not sound too sarcastic , she did not want him to ring off .
14	For a start , she had n't seen Rosemary for fifteen minutes and she did not want her to feel left out .
15	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 .
16	Witness could not say how much help in this a girl would need from the men because it varied so much , but she did not think it amounted to much , and no special men workers were employed for it " Lifting is therefore not denied , but its importance is distinctly minimized when a woman is speaking , maximized when a man is .
17	She did not think he noticed her .
18	For a moment , she did not think he had heard .
19	Addressing the Boys ' Brigade that very Sunday , the Rev. Johnston McKay told them of the lady who , surprised by the sum raised for the clock she had given to be sold for church funds , exclaimed that she did not know she had so much to give .
20	Although she did not know he had sex with Miss A in a bathroom above his Harley Street surgery , she claimed she did not feel threatened by another of his affairs .
21	With a sort of tragic turn of fate , she did not know he had a mad wife .
22	At first she did not notice him standing there near her cage in the darkening gloom but when she did she did something he had never seen her do in all the years he had watched her .
23	She did not see him leave .
24	‘ Your one-time intended 's folks , ’ she said — she did not see him wince at the Americanism ; she did not yet know him as well as Sally-Anne did .
25	Leading the way , she went across the surgery to the opposite door , but once inside she did not invite him to sit down .
26	even after his marriage , to mow the lawn ; it gave her so little enjoyment that Clara wondered why she did not let it go to seed .
27	Deborah also doubted Sebastian , although she never let it show , or hoped she did not let it show .
28	‘ She did not wish me to know her family .
29	She had her arrogance : she did not believe he had fully imagined her physical battle with the turkey , her anger , and shame at her anger , over Marcus 's vegetarian gesture .
30	Her garden was a source of great pleasure and she was very proud of her wonderful displays of Pelargonuims — she did not like you to call them geraniums !