Example sentences of "she [verb] not [adv] [vb infin] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't matter to her whether he kept it on or not , though she did not particularly like to see how his stump got so chafed and swollen . |
| 2 | And she did not even want to see , she thought , she had not enough interest to see round the place to which she was so anxious to consign her mother . |
| 3 | She did not even seem to mind the rather bad headache . |
| 4 | Now she did not even wish to try , for fear of rousing up something terrible . |
| 5 | She did not even try to prevent my journey , although she has been a perfect tyrant these many weeks , making me keep my bed ! |
| 6 | Alice , playing her violin at Holborn station , took it for granted , she did not even have to think about it , that the man playing the flute beside her had invited her to play because she was beautiful . |
| 7 | Although she did not even turn to look at him , a delicious warmth began to spread through her inert form — as though some electrical force was quietly pulsing across the few feet of water separating their bodies . |
| 8 | She did not even wait to have her breakfast . |
| 9 | She did not even need to cook since she lived on bread and melon and tomatoes , lacking the energy and appetite to bother with anything else and having only herself to consider . |
| 10 | She did not even look to pick her way round thistles in the long grass . |
| 11 | The truth was that she did not especially wish to learn . |
| 12 | She did not really expect to see them again . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'd better try to find the prisoners , ’ said Fenella at last , although she did not really want to leave the comparative safety of the wood-store . |
| 14 | ‘ She said she did not really want to go back to university and my husband told her she did not have to if she did not want to . |
| 15 | She did not really need to ask herself the question . |
| 16 | She does not principally want to know what the data signify in themselves but how texts reflect processes of communication , and how and why they were used to organise purposeful action , make valid claims , or to express feelings . |
| 17 | For , like the most envious of step-mothers , she does not really want to leave anything worth having to John Major at all ; she wishes to live in Thatcherland , surrounded by mirrors all perpetually claiming her to be the one and only . |