Example sentences of "n't [verb] to her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course John , her husband , told Elizabeth that Ivy had been right about the fuse-boxes : they just had n't come to her notice , so she had to eat humble pie . |
| 2 | She 'd be surprised if it was n't applied to her rump in the very near future . |
| 3 | I ai n't used to her voice |
| 4 | She did not dare stop talking because she knew that Constance was n't speaking to her mother and that Nora would be unable to resist goading her daughter with a volley of questions . |
| 5 | Miguel Rafaelo did n't react to her tirade . |
| 6 | The connections were loose , and the optic burner did n't respond to her impulse command . |
| 7 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 8 | But the nuts did n't come to her house . |
| 9 | Did n't come to her funeral ? |
| 10 | She stared at him as he sipped his lager , thinking it was a shame his compassion for handicapped people had n't extended to her sister when she had most needed him . |
| 11 | The fad had n't lasted to her time , but she still remembered articles in the learned techno-archaeology journals . |