Example sentences of "she not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Louisa , who had been brought up with her father 's constant comment that she was ‘ the prettiest girl in the world ’ , grew up with a very unreal need to feel praised and fêted for her looks , and when as a teenager she did n't get the same kind of compliments from other people , she not surprisingly felt unloved and unattractive as a result . |
| 2 | How dared he ? she mourned as she sank down on her bed and gasped for breath , and knew then that Naylor Massingham 's low opinion of her would n't hurt anywhere near as much as it did , had she not just realised that she was desperately in love with him ! |
| 3 | Had she not already decided that five and a half years of girlhood dreams bore little resemblance to the harsh warrior beside her ? |
| 4 | Had she not already known , Ronni would never have guessed the truth . |
| 5 | Did she not now have a husband , a child , a home ? |
| 6 | Had she not wildly exaggerated the significance of the advertisement ? |
| 7 | ‘ She not only knew of her big hits , but also about lots of other numbers on her various albums . |
| 8 | But for almost two million pounds she not only got up , but got to grips with the crumbling guttering on a Paris rooftop . |
| 9 | She not only got pregnant but also found it impossible to further her career in the Tory party . |
| 10 | When Mary Queen of Scots embarked on her headline-hitting affair with James Hepburn , earl of Bothwell , she not only created an immense drama for herself , but raised echoes of earlier headlines ; for two previous queens , Mary of Gueldres and her own mother Mary of Guise were , if rumour could be believed , on the receiving end of the Hepburn family 's habit of being ‘ kind to queens ’ . |
| 11 | As she outlines in her chapter of Passion entitled Mapping : Blackwomen Artists 1980–90 , she not only created the ground plan of contemporary Black Art in Britain but also curated such essential exhibitions as 5 Black Women at the Africa Centre and Black Woman Time Now . |
| 12 | There was one member whose sight was so bad that when she read she not only had to prop a second pair of spectacles on top of the pair already resting on her nose , but also had to stand under the standard lamp almost pressed against the light bulb . |
| 13 | Worst of all , some sadist of a landscape designer had slapped down Dancer 's stick-and-ball field right next to her house , so she not only had fairies at the bottom of her garden , but also a microcosm of Rutshire Polo Club . |
| 14 | She not only had the figure of a mannequin but she had learned from the girls at the salon how to walk , how to hold her head up , how to appear perfectly poised . |
| 15 | She not only made Black Women in Britain professional artists , but also suggested , by our active support for our creativity , that any Black woman could be an artist . |
| 16 | Her life must have been hard for she not only produced ten children , one of whom died in infancy but also gave birth to my mother when in her forty-fifth year . |
| 17 | It was truly democratic ; she not only named six Head Girls , Mr Smith and Miss Doris but had not forgotten the loyalty of William . |
| 18 | Lorraine was in prison for 18 months , and when she was released she not only faced the prospect of rebuilding family life for her children , but also the pressure of having a husband still inside . |
| 19 | Thus she not only shouted at him , she once took his best blowpipe , broke it in two and stamped on it . |
| 20 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 21 | On her visit to Malton , she not only purchased a riding habit in deep , forest-green velvet , but ordered one to be made in a similar material of a light golden-brown colour , to match the shade of her eyes . |
| 22 | She not only missed the bond which breast-feeding had created between her and Victoria , but was made to feel most unwelcome when she visited the nursery . |
| 23 | This had been doubly hurtful , for it meant that she not only did not want to work for and look after him but preferred his lifestyle to her own , and by implication ( for she was a lazy woman ) that meant that she considered what he did not to be work at all , merely a pleasurable means of making a great deal of money . |
| 24 | When she was 18 she went to study at the Royal School of Needlework , where she not only learnt how to identify and date historical embroidery , but also became a prize-winning practitioner . |
| 25 | Her hands moved to unbutton his shirt , and , that done , she not only wanted to stroke the golden down on his body , but to see that body , to see him . |
| 26 | But when a Duchess descends to mingle with a person of obscure birth , does she not then degrade herself ? |
| 27 | she not long had that bad car accident |
| 28 | She not bloody heard |
| 29 | and actually she 's excellent and I like her not like working for a female boss good people er |