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He intended her no harm. soa natural?
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He intended not to harm her.
He meant her no harm.
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He meant her no harm.
He did not intend to harm her.
Those sound more natural.
There is a bit of nuance here. A doctor, for instance, can intend no harm [the Hippocratic Oath says, "First, do no harm"], but even within that context, it sounds slightly unnatural.
The same kind of distinction can be illustrated with the word try.
He tried not to hurt his daughter while cutting her fingernails but she just kept moving around. [He was paying careful attention not to hurt the child, with the nuance that he may have incidentally hurt the child anyway.]
She wasn't trying to break his heart, but she did. [She may have cared about him a lot, but her actions were more for her own benefit than for his, and when she broke off their relationship, she wasn't necessarily trying specifically not to break his heart. His heart was a casualty of her actions.]
"He meant her no harm" suggests that he wasn't trying to hurt anyone. He wasn't malicious. But he MAY OR MAY NOT have been taking care to specifically not cause harm.
Large companies or governments often do not intend harm, but often do quite a lot of harm to individuals.
If a person "intends no harm," that means that they are really taking care in everything they do to carefully think out the possibilities of what could harm the other party, and acting accordingly NOT to harm them.
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