Example sentences of "not love [pron] " in BNC.

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1 What are the faults , characteristics , misdeeds and imperfections which you use as excuses for not loving yourself ?
2 Not loving myself I could never love others .
3 He 's even accused me of not loving him !
4 There is a difference between marrying someone while not loving them and marrying them in order to use them as a private bank . ’
5 Many step-parents feel guilty for not loving their step-children in the way they do their own .
6 Bransby Cooper ( Sir Astley 's nephew ) who knew Coleman personally for many years , said it seemed impossible not to love one so agreeable , kind-hearted , and blessed with all those qualities which endear man to man .
7 Not to know her , not to love her ( at the very least , not to want to love her ) was to deny oneself the totality of experience .
8 She had her faults — she needed to be push-started and she had lost gears the way old people lose teeth — but it was difficult not to love her .
9 chose not to love herself ,
10 You 're too young to live alone for long , and no one could see Cathy and not love her .
11 If he had been indifferent to Catherine , if he had not loved her at least as much , more , than she did herself , she could not have done it .
12 Maybe it was this gentle , comfortable house where a man who had not loved her had loved others , strangers to her .
13 Realising that she had not loved him , Boris then starved himself to death .
14 ‘ If I had not loved him , I should have left him , ’ Laura said .
15 His face was so unguarded that if she had not loved him as much she would have been afraid for him .
16 After all , why should he consent to be Helena 's fairy-tale prize for curing the King , if he can not love her ?
17 She had realised from when she was a tiny child that Phoebe did not love her as she loved Phoebe , and as other mothers loved their lovely daughters .
18 It was not that I did not love her .
19 But I did not feel jealous , because I knew he did not love her .
20 He did not love her as he had done , and nothing else mattered .
21 And during that terrible evening by the fireside , when she told him her story , how desperately sad she had been to realize he might not love her any more .
22 He did not love her , because he never loved women .
23 I did not love her .
24 She knew I did not love her , I did not hide my feelings .
25 Wherever she went , there would always be the knowledge deep within her that she loved Rourke , and that he did not love her in return .
26 He did not love her , but she would make a remarkable duchess , and the fact that she had inherited more than her share of her papa 's famous shrewdness was a bonus which would assist the Blaines and make their future secure .
27 Ace might not love her , and he was furious at having his hand forced by William Ash , but there was something she could maybe start to build on , and that was telling him the truth about her birth .
28 She waited , having given him the opening , but suggestions of love and marriage — or anything remotely related to them — still remained unspoken , and , sadly , she realised that he did not love her .
29 ( We might ‘ need ’ someone , cling to them , romanticise them , pity them , idealise them — but we can not love them unless we love ourselves . )
30 If a friend gave you this list of reasons why they could not love themselves , what would you say ?
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