Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] she [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could hear her thinking it then |
| 2 | I could hear her scolding him for not having contacted her sooner , not having brought me to see her , asking whether I was safe , was someone with me , who was looking after me . |
| 3 | I could get her to ring you when she gets back . ’ |
| 4 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 5 | She made a lot of conventional noises , of course ; she had to because you ca n't have Rose and Grace getting any sillier than they are already and they might have taken it into their heads to copy you , but I could see she thought you had real spirit . |
| 6 | So I took her in so she could help her help her do something like for a while . |
| 7 | She wished she could say she knew she was being difficult and edgy , taking it out on him because she 'd been denied another child . |
| 8 | I thought , if she could hear she thinks I 'm bloody crackers ! |
| 9 | I guess you could say she spoilt me and — ‘ |
| 10 | Er just that little bit th that you felt , that I was n't , er you could imagine her doing it , you know . |
| 11 | She could wait for him — no one could stop her marrying him once she was twenty-one . |
| 12 | When she confessed to shooting Martin no one could doubt she had it in her to pull the trigger . |
| 13 | They suggested she borrow the money until such time as they could let her have it . |
| 14 | And — even assuming he could persuade her to drink it — was n't it , well , out of the ordinary to find half a litre of bleach in someone 's stomach ? |
| 15 | She went in for a drink one time , she liked a few drinks around midday , she used to say it helped the long hot afternoons slide by , ’ and Nathan smiled to himself , because he could hear her saying it . |
| 16 | Now it was lunch time and she rushed out before anyone could ask her to join them . |