Example sentences of "did [not/n't] [vb infin] her [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | He did not want her here . |
2 | At first she had been surprised when a flask and a chunk of bread had been tossed down to her that first night , until she had remembered that de Raimes did not want her dead just yet . |
3 | After all those months of fighting the knowledge that Anthony did not want her much , it was a heavenly feeling . |
4 | Though it probably did not benefit her economically as much as has sometimes been thought , it endowed Britain with a great colonial empire and virtually unlimited opportunities of further expansion . |
5 | It was indeed Mrs. Mounce yet again , and in her frilly nightwear , but Bob did not throw her downstairs and break her neck . |
6 | He did not answer her immediately , just continued to watch her across the table , his blue eyes suddenly as cold as ice . |
7 | Her friend Abraham Goldsmid arranged a loan , but it did not last her long . |
8 | He did not visit her again until the following evening and his first words on entering the room were , ‘ What on earth have you done with Harry ? ’ |
9 | I remembered that was the name of one of Miss Havisham 's relations , the one who did not visit her often . |
10 | If her name did not explain her then she was no one ; not any more . |
11 | Just thinking of the dark young man with Romany looks who had taken her virginity , and for a short time had loved her so passionately , did not serve her well enough . |
12 | Perhaps he did not touch her very deeply but he did not shock her either , her body moving easily , without apprehension , beneath his ; her mind remaining open to the possibility of sensation , observing his pleasure with affection — glad that he should have it — yet wondering more and more frequently if a similar capacity for such joyful sensuality lay concealed somewhere within herself . |
13 | Apparently it did not take her long to provide services for both husband and wife . |
14 | It did not take her long to work out that the meal was going to cost her considerably more than she 'd saved by spending a rather miserable night in rue Roland . |
15 | Although the Russian qualifier is ranked only 238 , she won her first two tournaments ever on grass and Durie did not take her lightly . |
16 | I did not recognise her straight away . |
17 | He neither leered nor lunged , he did not pinch her neither did he make a sudden and late demand for hot water and a brandy to his bedroom . |
18 | I had not believed her then , and I did not believe her now . |
19 | The Princess of Wales may not have been quick to learn at school — possibly because her lessons did not interest her much — but she has certainly made up for lost time since her marriage . |
20 | So I left her alone , locking the door behind me , and did not see her again ( she developed bronchitis , was taken into the cottage hospital and died soon afterwards ) . |
21 | I did not see her again until during the afternoon lessons , when I noticed that she had been sent to stand alone in the middle of the schoolroom . |
22 | Wendy was still living in Old Wolverton , and because of her shift work I did not see her very often ; and most of those with whom I had been friendliest were billeted in outlying areas . |
23 | He did not see her precisely as she saw herself but it could have been very much worse . |
24 | It did not suit her now to observe the emotional turmoil inside Rose . |
25 | He did not approach her sexually ; he did not pretend grand passion ; he wanted to share his interest in Møn with another who had a similar love of the island . |
26 | But he did not push her away . |
27 | But important as all this might once have been it did not concern her now . |
28 | The Comédie Française did not impress her either , for it seemed to her a collection of posturing gabbling shadows , mocking at plays that she had studied in tranquillity and silence : the celebrated mirrors of Versailles were all spotty , Notre-Dame looked at her as though it had two spires missing from on top , and the famous intellectual cafés were full of old men and tourists . |
29 | He did not join her immediately as she 'd half expected , but sat down beside her . |
30 | F major did not help her any , he reflected , as he struggled out of his ridiculous businessman 's shoes . |