Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] she could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , through the gloom she could just make out the dried-up fountain in the middle of it , and , straight ahead , the huge studded doors of a church . |
| 2 | Through the trees she could sometimes see the roofs of houses . |
| 3 | Her spine , neck and shoulders ached dully , but after a while she could almost relish the aches , as if each physical pain was another blotter for the press of ideas in her head . |
| 4 | The pain was becoming so intense that by the end of the day she could hardly grip her scissors . |
| 5 | As the hand-maid of the Lord , most of the time she could only be there , watching helplessly . |
| 6 | Much of the time she could only be ridden towards her dinner bucket ; any other direction except backwards produced complete refusal . |
| 7 | She reached out across the street and tried to get an idea of the shape of a building she could dimly see . |
| 8 | At the top of a wave she could easily see across the Longstone rock to the other side . |
| 9 | There were no stores like the ones she could now see flashing past the cab window , fine jewellers and milliners , bookshops and department stores , their windows displaying a variety of goods Ellie had only ever seen in the pictures of second-hand magazines . |
| 10 | And afterwards , for a second she had felt him relax against her , his body spent , his feelings so near the surface she could almost reach out and touch them , and then he had wrenched himself away from her and the defences had gone slamming back up , shutting her out . |
| 11 | On the wall behind the plant she could just make out irregular painted spirals of pale gold . |
| 12 | For a second she could only gaze at him , completely at a loss . |
| 13 | For a second she could almost feel the warm slump of the hare 's body , and its weight when it swung from her hand , heavy and loose , as she carried it home by the ears . |
| 14 | It was not a matter of ‘ if only … ’ , but rather a nostalgia for a different , a parallel plane of existence , a nostalgia for a future she could never have lived . |
| 15 | For a moment she could barely breathe . |
| 16 | For a moment she could hardly take it in . |
| 17 | Unexpected , it was like a surprise confrontation , and for a moment she could only stare blindly at the familiar name . |
| 18 | For a moment she could only stare at him , completely at a loss as to what he meant . |
| 19 | And as a background she could still see those policemen going in and out of the house in Mouncy Street the day she had seen John Coffin sitting outside . |
| 20 | ‘ Benedict ! ’ she called out after him , her voice rampant with the passion she could no longer control . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm taking you in my arms , ’ he returned with a calmness she could only envy from the bottom of her heart . |
| 22 | What had gone from the attic she could only guess , for she did not remember half the things they stored there . |
| 23 | In the meantime she could only help them as best she could which , being Eva Burrows , was a great deal . |
| 24 | By moving her head about and squinting through gaps in the foliage she could just follow his actions . |
| 25 | She might have found him attractive , but there was no way in the world she could ever give a damn about a man who was as dishonest and as hard-hearted as he was ! |
| 26 | Bare , a little shabby , sorely in need of a fresh coat of paint , yet the room excited her in a way she could never have explained . |
| 27 | She knelt to lay the tray on the grass , then , frankly curious , turned to study him in a way she could never have done had he been conscious . |
| 28 | Yet jumping on the bed she could almost be a normal , happy little girl . |
| 29 | Across the way she could just glimpse the motorspeeder . |
| 30 | Turning , he grinned at the apprehension she could hardly hide . |