Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [verb] her [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after he had left them Rain wondered whether Shildon might not want to see her about his MacQuillan inquiry , a matter other events had put out of her mind . |
| 2 | I did not want to leave her without saying goodbye fairly . |
| 3 | She would not need to see her until tonight . |
| 4 | He drove grimly and skilfully and he drove very fast as if he could not wait to get her on the plane to England and out of his sight . |
| 5 | What would he not give to have her by his side , supplanting with her company all the resentment he felt now at the friendship of others ? |
| 6 | Robert did not like to remind her about the nature of her costume . |
| 7 | Her trick was to establish during the early part of the evening roughly where the man lived ; then to announce a destination for herself to which he could not suggest accompanying her without seeming over keen . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , one would not have wished her to be miserable . |
| 9 | Henry Tyler would not have described her as a happy woman , but afterward he could not say that she had seemed at all unwell . |
| 10 | Here she was , imagining that the last half-hour had been a sort of truce — telling Marc all those things about her life on the stage , all those silly , funny , self-mocking stories of disaster and mayhem that were part of the business , and he 'd been sitting there in judgement all that time , working out how much Peter might or might not have paid her for playing the part of his fiancée … |
| 11 | Although the trial judge in Jones was said to have been wrong in saying that the police need not have informed her of the presence of a solicitor called by another person , the admission of a statement made by Jones in the absence of a solicitor was upheld . |
| 12 | She is a cold , unfeeling and unresponsive woman : she must be , or Hugo would not have left her for me . |
| 13 | The haciendas , the castles and the oast-houses would not have suited her at all . |
| 14 | This perhaps supports the criticism that the Queen 's advisers should not have allowed her to be urged into an immediate invitation to Lord Home and that she should have taken at least a little time fully to apprise herself of the changing political situation and of the views of the Conservative leadership , as it was then emerging . |
| 15 | Now , though , she was even powerless to move , although he did not attempt to draw her against him . |
| 16 | The psychologist worked on the assumption that Dawn should prepare herself for a life of dependency on others , so he did not try to motivate her towards self-sufficiency . |
| 17 | As a comment on Eve 's lofty nature she notes that the serpent ‘ did not try to tempt her from the path of duty by brilliant jewels , rich dresses , worldly luxuries or pleasures , but with the promise of knowledge … and he found in the woman that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasures of picking flowers and talking with Adam did not satisfy ’ . |
| 18 | He blamed it all on business , but could not resist taunting her for expecting him to be at h-er beck and call , while disapproving that he was rich . |
| 19 | Although Thomas felt her husband had been stupid to bring a woman like this to the planet , he did not intend to abandon her to the mercy of the hostile environment and the murderous shapechanger . |
| 20 | He envies her that deep unconsciousness , but can not afford to join her in it . |
| 21 | He could not continue to look her in the face . |
| 22 | And I will not agree to take her without your full and willing consent . ’ |
| 23 | It would be dangerous pinning Ebert down and he did n't want to put her at risk . |
| 24 | ‘ We do n't want to put her under a great deal of pressure after what she 's been through . |
| 25 | So I did n't want to burden her by being awkward about it , make her feel bad about it , equally I have n't really thanked her . |
| 26 | I did n't want to tell her about the light in the locked room , or about Mr Ross . |
| 27 | I used to be a professional cleaner — I do n't want to get her into any trouble , I … ’ |
| 28 | Elinor 's first astonished impression was that Matron Braddock looked like a female impersonator — a sergeant-major in drag : she could n't wait to describe her to Buzz . |
| 29 | I did n't need to tell her to be careful . |
| 30 | He did n't mind telling her in no uncertain terms to keep her distance from him , not that she had any inclination to do anything else , but obviously felt no compulsion to obey those rules when applied to himself . |