Example sentences of "[pron] could only [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the ruffians seized me , pushing me against the fence , and I could only gabble in horror as their leader drew a long , thin stiletto and pulled back my shirt to expose my throat . |
| 2 | Rolling over was a painful if not too difficult manoeuvre , but , even with Travis helping all he could , it was an exhausting process trying to find his pocket and reach into it when she could only go by touch . |
| 3 | There was such comfort , such happiness with him that she could only sigh with pleasure . |
| 4 | She could only watch in horror from the street as a local man and soldiers battled bravely to save four-year-old Stacey and two-year-old Ciara from the blaze . |
| 5 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 6 | ‘ And that from an Aussie ? ’ she was startled into answering , then went pink when he gave her a look of what she could only describe as approval . |
| 7 | His face , less hollowed and drawn already than her first impression of it , possessed a quality in repose she could only describe as beauty , of a very virile , masculine variety . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She was on the point of marrying another man , so they could only meet in secret . |
| 10 | No such act of measurement could change what those spins already were ; it could only bring to light a state of affairs which had existed from the moment of separation . |
| 11 | They must n't go down this road again , it could only lead to disaster . |
| 12 | One jerk , one shudder , one small loss of control and it would spill over into a chaos so terrible that it could only end in death . |
| 13 | Manager Graeme Souness 's touchline ban meant he could only watch in anguish from the directors ' box . |
| 14 | A general in the regular army , he could only serve as lieutenant-colonel of the Sussex militia . |
| 15 | The problem with Orwell is that he could only think of class conflict in terms of major insurrectionary conflict . |
| 16 | Freud 's he just could n't speak Hebrew , he could only speak in Egyptian and so on and so on . |