Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] her [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlotte did not phrase her response as a rebuke , but it had much the same effect . |
| 2 | She came through the front door of the shop and was a little surprised at not seeing her husband behind the counter . |
| 3 | For example , she was deeply opposed to opening in Manchester , as she did not think her type of customer lived there , but preferred to be associated with the older university towns or cathedral cities such as Bath or Edinburgh . |
| 4 | In December 1977 the Headmistress of St Anselm 's School in Canterbury , one of Britain 's leading Roman Catholic Comprehensives , allowed a teacher who was a National Front candidate to continue in her post alter she had promised that her National Front views would not affect her treatment to black pupils . |
| 5 | I ask you not to cheapen her life in your film . |
| 6 | Robyn generally favours loose dark clothes , made of natural fibres , that do not make her body into an object of sexual attention . |
| 7 | Her widowhood had thankfully not reduced her circumstances too drastically and had certainly not altered her sense of style . |
| 8 | On their way to the station she would not throw her coin into the Trevi Fountain . |
| 9 | At least she had not compounded her remark by backing it up with an astrologer 's predictions . |
| 10 | However , a mother who is in contact with her baby immediately after delivery is much more likely to be able to do this than one who is not given her baby until a few hours after the birth . |
| 11 | She hopes , too , that her confessions will not damage her relationship with the grandchildren she adores , Anya , a 23-year-old student , and Daniel , 24 , who is an artist . |
| 12 | She could not build her life on another 's pain , or on Havvie 's lies . |
| 13 | Devastated , Charles was determined not to lose her love for good . |
| 14 | Peter said he thought Lydia White ( Linguistics/McGill , Montreal ) had still not placed her book on universal grammar with a publisher although Tim Blakey has since reported that when he contacted her when he was there last week , she refused to see ‘ yet another publisher ’ . |
| 15 | He had said she was beautiful and called her Felipe 's woman , but obviously the count was not about to enlighten her on that particular score , and as she was not revealing her knowledge of his language she had to let it go . |
| 16 | Yes , probably , but it did not lessen her joy in the past ten years of leisured , ladylike existence and in the arrival of innumerable small parcels . |
| 17 | Hyacinth , who could not catch her breath for excitement , found herself in the arms of the Prime Minister . |
| 18 | Abraham talked on , not noticing her lack of attention . |
| 19 | Merlyn demanded to know why he had not reported her departure at the time . |
| 20 | But in the evening , in her room , she could not finish her letter to him . |
| 21 | From a traditional Labour background , my mother rejected the politics of solidarity and communality , always voted Conservative , for the left could not embody her desire for things to be really fair , for a full skirt that took twenty yards of cloth , for a half-timbered cottage in the country , for the prince who did not come . |
| 22 | She could not clear her head of him , however much she told herself that he was a bastard . |
| 23 | She had come here to meet Silas , but definitely not to set her cap at him . |
| 24 | What woman , in fact , however firm her beliefs , would not sacrifice her religion for her children ? |
| 25 | She had not seen her daughter since 9 o'clock the previous evening . |
| 26 | A MUSLIM woman who has not seen her bridegroom since the day of a registrar 's office wedding had her marriage annulled yesterday by a Scottish judge . |
| 27 | She will leave , take the children with her and is often in no hurry to take on another man who can not give her caring in return . |
| 28 | Even Margaret Thatcher in her prime could not carry her party on the question of Sundays . |
| 29 | Apart from the fact that she believed her teeth to be on the point of falling out , she had not had her period for several weeks and was afraid that she was barren . |
| 30 | He would not report her fate to the Police , and he could divert enquiries by saying that she had gone to friends in the country . |