Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [conj] she could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly she imagined taking one step after another until she reported that she could physically go no further because the slope of the ceiling was so steep . |
| 2 | They had been bought by a well intended but misguided woman who found that she could no longer afford to keep them . |
| 3 | She reckoned that she could only take on board a limited number of surprises in any given period , and her quota for the year had just been reached . |
| 4 | It may sound priggish , but she says it 's unwise to go against one 's nature , its fundamental requirements , she knew that she could only make a go of it , a real go — and that was what she wanted — with some very extraordinary kind of man , and she had n't met him yet . |
| 5 | In the past , when she felt depressed , she knew that she could always rely on her grandmother to lift her spirits . |
| 6 | Again she saw Gazzer in her mind , laughing with Bella , clowning around , never taking anything seriously and she knew that she could never find the right words to convince Bella that he was dangerous . |
| 7 | She understood that she could only leave the flat to shop for food at the Indian-owned store at the end of the street . |
| 8 | She blew until she could barely see the shape of the social worker 's head through the pink bubble . |
| 9 | Conscious that if she accepted his presence at Thorsbury without protest , her chance to remove him was gone , nevertheless she felt that she could now handle the man . |
| 10 | It seemed that she could no longer use this place to escape from the reality of the present : from her fears for Simon and Bella , her growing rage against Gazzer and from a terrible , sinister premonition that her life was about to fall apart . |