Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] could [verb] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I even found I could hold her head and pet her while she threw up . |
| 2 | Do you think you could change her nappy for me ? |
| 3 | I do n't believe she could keep her mouth shut . |
| 4 | ‘ Were there any in the garden ? ’ asked Taheb , wishing she could draw her hand away . |
| 5 | Fran swallowed hard , feeling the bitter taste of fear burning her throat as she stared into the man 's cold , flat eyes , wishing she could find her voice to tell him what he could do with his threats . |
| 6 | Once again he was ignoring Mitch and she felt he could read her mind . |
| 7 | The message read that she had been in the hotel that night ; that she had met David ; that a tape had been taken of the conversation ; that if he thought he could arrest her brother and charge him with murder , he should now try ; that , if he thought he could intern her whilst completely innocent , he should now try ; that several persons had listened to the conversation in the hotel that night and that one was an Ulster MP . |
| 8 | Wendy said I could borrow her dress . |
| 9 | She said I could have her tenancy . ’ |
| 10 | I wish I could remember her name . |
| 11 | But they could find no food so she set out to walk to Trnopolje , where she hoped she could feed her baby . |
| 12 | She wished she could fulfil her search for this singular man from her bed , by the power of her mind alone . |
| 13 | She wished she could share her glee with Adam . |
| 14 | She wished she could take her son and Maisie 's children , and go from this place . |
| 15 | The head girl , Nikki Carmichael , who is 18 and will be participating tomorrow in the poll proper , thought he was marvellous and said he could have her vote any time . |
| 16 | She had broken the law unwittingly , but still she had broken it , and if Jake was really determined he could make her pay for it . |
| 17 | His voice as cold and hard as polished steel , Michele said , ‘ It was you who suggested I could have her eating out of my hand … ’ |
| 18 | He had suggested she take up Jessica 's constant offer , considered she could do her revision on the beach or wherever , had smiled comfortably at her half-serious suggestion that Jessica might ‘ lead her astray ’ , or at least have a good go at it . |
| 19 | He had n't been thinking anything of the sort and last night he had only suggested he could settle her business for her with a phone call to the manager , whom he knew well , because he wanted to take her out today instead of waiting outside hotels for her . |