Example sentences of "[pron] could [not/n't] [vb infin] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And Jay was pacing her attic , bars tightening and cracking around a heart that would not stop hurting ; she could not lay her body down though it screamed for rest and knots of fury made her neck and shoulders a steely hunch like a vulture . |
| 32 | She could not build her life on another 's pain , or on Havvie 's lies . |
| 33 | She could not clear her head of him , however much she told herself that he was a bastard . |
| 34 | The bodies were found on Wednesday after the couple 's daughter , Cathleen Mustow , alerted police because she could not contact her parents . |
| 35 | She could not remember her dream , only that it had been about Edmund and that he loved her . |
| 36 | It was about time she stopped feeling sorry for herself , the hurt and pain of losing mam would be with her for a long time , but Hari knew she could not let her grief incapacitate her , if she did not mend and make shoes she did not eat . |
| 37 | She compromised with China in agreeing to the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and with the Zimbabwean nationalists over the Rhodesian negotiations , when it became clear that she could not get her way . |
| 38 | Her heart seemed to swell in her chest — she could not get her breath ! |
| 39 | But she found that she could not tear her eyes away from him . |
| 40 | But she could not lose her anxiety and , finding a guilty conscience the very devil to live with , she returned to her hotel hoping that she would never again be called upon to impersonate her sister . |
| 41 | In a letter to Robson she described their rekindled passion , feeling only slightly aggrieved that she could not put her arms around him ( presumably they go straight through ) . |
| 42 | Alyssia asked , puzzled , although she could not put her finger on why . |
| 43 | A GIRL Friday who quit her job because she could not trust her boss to leave her alone was yesterday awarded £2,390 for sex discrimination . |
| 44 | In the opening stage of their affair she could not keep her column free of the subject of her lover , even indirectly . |
| 45 | She could not believe her eyes when she saw the Tillers being marched off in the crocodile line to the English Girls ' Club after rehearsals . |
| 46 | She had stood a moment , a long pause ; at first ( her suitcase , the littered money ) she could not believe her eyes . |
| 47 | A love struck farmer 's daughter was told she could not see her sweetheart . |
| 48 | He continued to look at her and she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 49 | But she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 50 | She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff . |
| 51 | Sally-Anne Tunstall , beloved daughter of Senator Jared Tunstall , arguably the richest man in the USA , and his dear wife Mary , niece of Orrin Tunstall , the American ambassador , society beauty , heiress , spoiled child of fortune , who had once thought that the world was her ball to play with , sat on her bed in an East End attic , dressed in her skivvy 's clothing , grieving because she could not consummate her love for a poor doctor who had renounced the world over which she had once reigned . |
| 52 | She could n't cloak her antagonism which was all the worse for the element of truth in what he said . |
| 53 | Now , she could n't open her eyes . |
| 54 | Since Adam had been monopolising practically all her time , she could n't protest her dislike of him too vehemently . |
| 55 | In baggy collarless cream shirt and hip-hugging chino trousers he looked so overwhelmingly attractive that she could n't drag her eyes away . |
| 56 | She could n't hold her head up . |
| 57 | And somehow she could n't stop her gaze from straying to the triangle of naked chest where his shirt buttons were open . |
| 58 | Try as she might , she could n't stop her eyes from straying back in his direction time and time again , and every time they had it was to see that same unfathomable look on his face . |
| 59 | Now she was visible again , she 'd had to take off her shoes in order to walk on the glass floor without slipping , and she could n't feel her feet . |
| 60 | But she could n't control her dreams and sometimes she talked in her sleep . |