Example sentences of "she [vb -s] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Transferred to the realm of gender relations , this would describe the state of affairs in which a woman has influence over a man and manipulates his discourses , but is allowed this power only as long as she agrees not to flaunt it and remains in the position of silent partner with no autonomous voice .
2 Her Christmas show proved she has not lost her touch and it 's time she was fully acknowledged as the comic genius she is .
3 She says she has not lost a single client and has already won several new audit clients .
4 Graf , the French and Wimbledon champion , will be a firm favourite to collect her third U.S. Open crown as she has not lost to Sukova in 19 matches since losing in their first meeting as a 14-year-old in 1983 .
5 Then Mrs St Maugham asks a friend whom she has not seen for years to lunch .
6 She has not seen much of Montparnasse recently , she confesses to her readers , she has been staying indoors ‘ nursing a sick wasp and writing a comic romance .
7 She has not seen a single second of the Costa Del Sol soap since .
8 She has not seen him since half past six , when they met in the kitchen over a salami sandwich .
9 She has not seen her children for two years .
10 Holden 's story contains no suspense , while Lucy 's grips the reader totally ; for example she ‘ forgets ’ to inform the reader for six chapters that ‘ Dr. John ’ is in fact her cousin whom she has not seen for ten years !
11 Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ?
12 Cumani has a chance of taking the big sprint on the Knavesmire with Khaydara , but she has not run since June and will be hard pressed to hold Runun ( 3.45 ) , who was the convincing winner of a valuable Ascot handicap on his last outing .
13 The allowance is given from the date of bereavement to the end of that tax year , and for the following year so long as she has not remarried by the start of that year .
14 Dame Agatha will be leaving , if she has not gone already .
15 She has not cut herself off from her parents , however , as this is something which would only have led her to feel guilty and therefore decreased her confidence even further .
16 She has not said so . ’
17 There is some merit in Mrs Thatcher 's claim that too often Royal Commissions were appointed largely to avoid decisions or to postpone necessary tough action : she has not appointed one Royal Commission in her ten years in office .
18 ‘ I 'm very concerned she has not contacted the children . ’
19 But she has not handbagged it , to use Julian Critchley 's metaphor , beyond recognition .
20 She has not repeated the success of her first , A Glimpse of Stocking , but her sales are still healthy .
21 She has not written up her data for publication .
22 I invite the hon. Lady to read the newspapers even if she has not asked the operator about plans for the use of its facilities .
23 And she has not ruled out the prospect of having another baby , according to royal sources .
24 But then one could say same of Verbier and she has not ruled that out .
25 The mother has made a phone call to the hospital asking after her daughter 's safety but she has not called back as promised .
26 She has not conceived since .
27 Edward arranged a terrible fate for Lady Buchan : ‘ Because she has not struck with the sword , she shall not die by it .
28 The office is not highly institutionalized and she has not made changes in this respect .
29 She looked relaxed at a Guildhall lunch but a spokesman said : ‘ She has no plans to travel to Scotland at present but she has not made a final decision . ’
30 He ignores the fact that the major argument for including the supervisor 's name in papers to which he or she has not made such a contribution is that it is the supervisor 's reputation which has attracted the research grant or ensured publication .
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