Example sentences of "n't [verb] to her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In casual , chatty tones , she told me that " my news " had n't penetrated to her Surrey retreat , and in fact had n't reached her until an hour ago when she 'd arrived , having had nothing to the contrary since last year , to keep the traditional family tryst at my father 's house . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She 'd be surprised if it was n't applied to her rump in the very near future . |
| 4 | I ai n't used to her voice |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Miguel Rafaelo did n't react to her tirade . |
| 7 | She tried to take a step , but the suit would n't respond to her commands . |
| 8 | The connections were loose , and the optic burner did n't respond to her impulse command . |
| 9 | ‘ I see there 's hardly a day nowadays that Rose does n't go to her relations , ’ Moran said to Sheila and Mona one Saturday they brought him a flask of tea into the fields . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She was shaking with tears and laughter , and Davide began to laugh too , recalling above all his own mother who had broken their best service all those years ago when Rosa would n't come to her senses about Tommaso … . |
| 12 | But the nuts did n't come to her house . |
| 13 | Did n't come to her funeral ? |
| 14 | At the tiny station of Plowden an angry old woman asked whether we had permission to park our car in the yard , so I did n't add to her troubles by asking for a ticket to Ludlow , as I had intended , but drove on to Marshbrook where the porter was more kindly . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The fad had n't lasted to her time , but she still remembered articles in the learned techno-archaeology journals . |
| 17 | And , although she never actually put it into words she had made it perfectly clear that she would put him out of business if he did n't agree to her terms . |