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 ? |