Example sentences of "she could do " in BNC.
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| 1 | To her mind , Lucy looked like she could do with a huge warm hug . |
| 2 | And then it was mammoth time and nothing she could do about it . |
| 3 | Not that Masha was unable to enjoy herself — she had a fine sense of humour and loved to sing , which she could do well , serenading the songs of her homeland — lullabies and airs which still resonate in her son 's head to this day . |
| 4 | But she could do nothing about it . |
| 5 | And all she could do , ’ Harriet , she says silently , what a betrayer you make me , immediately , ‘ all she could do was ask about the Royals , was Diana as beautiful as in Newsweek . ’ |
| 6 | And all she could do , ’ Harriet , she says silently , what a betrayer you make me , immediately , ‘ all she could do was ask about the Royals , was Diana as beautiful as in Newsweek . ’ |
| 7 | Soon she realised that he was singing her praises to his friends , because other similar garden owners rang her up and asked her if she could do a few hours for them too . |
| 8 | She wanted to be as mature and sensible as Rachel was , she wanted to be reassuring and maternal and all she could do was cling to Maggie and sob and sob . |
| 9 | The old mistake made in a bathroom in Oxford twenty years before had fixed her course and all she could do was to walk it . |
| 10 | Or maybe she felt she could do the briefing personally , as it were ? |
| 11 | ‘ She could do with a bit of growing up , ’ observed Davyd , the shrewd Welsh gardener . |
| 12 | If she wanted , she could do a little daytime television work in one of the London studios . |
| 13 | All she could do was stand there , a passive witness . |
| 14 | There was nothing she could do to save herself . |
| 15 | She could do nothing to help herself . |
| 16 | She had written to her mother giving no address , saying that she had left her husband and was going abroad , that she could do nothing more for her mother and had her own life to live . |
| 17 | She gave no address and said she could do nothing more to help her mother . |
| 18 | There seemed nothing she could do to make it less so . |
| 19 | Dare they call her bluff and just let her get on with whatever she thought she could do to inconvenience them ? |
| 20 | One young woman , Lucy , told how sad she felt that her mother had very low self-esteem , believed she was unattractive and overweight — even said once that there was nothing she could do or be that Lucy and her sisters ‘ could n't do or be better ’ , which made Lucy feel envied and forced into competition with her mother , when she did n't want to be . |
| 21 | It had been all she could do , as she wrote to Ellen : |
| 22 | She could do little to protect herself . |
| 23 | She reported a general response as good as on the Arsenicum , went on holiday and had to come home from it because her period was again heavy and all she could do was lie down ! |
| 24 | There was nothing more she could do . |
| 25 | Surely there was something that she could do ? |
| 26 | It was as much as she could do to restrain herself from rushing forward to grasp his hand in a gesture of sympathy and solidarity . |
| 27 | Whatever it was , she could do nothing about it herself , since she had n't the remotest idea what went on under the bonnet of the Renault . |
| 28 | She could do without food for a day or two , or maybe the wee lass would bring her something . |
| 29 | All she could do was raise her voice higher , the train was coming in now , and she screamed at the child , screamed at him Come on , Johnny , fucking come on . |
| 30 | It was all she could do to stop bursting into tears . |