Example sentences of "that she could " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early hours , she left with her husband Guy to drive back to Lourmarin so that she could open her restaurant in the morning . |
| 2 | I feel I have unfinished business with you said Jay , amazed that she could use such an adult phrase , when alone , her mouth sagged and stretched and gasped with momma , momma , the pain shrieked from her navel , she even sucked her thumb in the hope that do-it-yourself primal therapy would ease something . |
| 3 | Delight that she could be stirred by another person . |
| 4 | In the final condition , the mother was hidden behind a metal screen so that she could neither see nor be seen by the pair in the observation room . |
| 5 | She was not even inarticulate in the sense that she could express her own feelings convincingly . |
| 6 | Although the mother accepted that the child 's immediate future lay with her foster parents and there was no immediate prospect that she could have her back , she wanted to keep the door open and therefore she refused her consent to the adoption . |
| 7 | Demonstrating the arbitrariness of the emergency regulations , she was granted a passport in June this year so that she could head a UDF delegation which met Margaret Thatcher and President Bush . |
| 8 | ‘ Poor thing , ’ she 'd sob , thinking about the heroine , and she 'd get undressed so that she could carry on crying in bed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She wanted somehow to have her mother for herself , but only so that she could reject her herself . |
| 11 | Now she thought that she could give it up for three weeks in the Italian sun . |
| 12 | She knew that she could not do it alone . |
| 13 | Now she felt that she could have used Phoebe in her struggle with Fenna . |
| 14 | She was buoyed up suddenly on the wave of amazement and admiration that she could feel enveloping her from across the whole room . |
| 15 | To acknowledge that she could not and never would ask Maggie for the mothering that she would give to her own mother . |
| 16 | After a while she discovered that she could hide comfortably behind the shelter of sobbing . |
| 17 | This meant that she could have used the Convention 's rulings on child abduction to get Eva back . |
| 18 | A designer chose the only flat with a garden and a fashion consultant , Juliet Mann , who is similarly keen on horticulture , chose the only unit with a flat roof so that she could establish a roof-top conservatory above her flat . |
| 19 | She is canny and determined , and her talent is so special that she could be running her workshop from an oil rig in the North Sea — people would buy her work just the same . |
| 20 | Some patients got others to write for them when they were low , but there was nothing Lily wanted to say to Vincent that she could ask anyone to write . |
| 21 | By then she 'd saved enough money to go to Australia , but decided in the end that she could always travel later . |
| 22 | He urged her to acknowledge that she could quickly end the dispute by allowing it go to arbitration . |
| 23 | For Cecilia , however — a young black girl placed in care at 13 because her mother could n't cope — the fact that she could express anger and upset with her sister , whom she dearly loved , resulted in social workers suggesting a move , ‘ for her own good ’ , to a smaller family-style establishment in the country , miles from the inner city community in which she had grown up . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I told them that , ’ Francis Morgan said irritably and his wife and daughter caught each other 's eye in silent agreement that he had n't told them that Angela was refusing point-black to be married from home and was insisting on the full London set-out , reception at the House of Commons , replying unanswerably when he had objected on grounds of expense that she could well afford to pay for it herself . |
| 25 | Her lawyer had advised her that she could , by agreement with Angela , break the trust . |
| 26 | The doctor who had done the autopsy , however , had scouted , promptly , any suggestion that she could have moved thereafter . |
| 27 | The president , Cory Aquino , confirmed weeks of rumour on March 21st when she said that the ban on Mrs Marcos would be lifted so that she could go on trial in Manila , but only when the government had decided what to charge her with . |
| 28 | According to Dr O'Toole , Dr Baltimore told her in 1986 that she could write a letter to Cell about it , but that he would publish a rejoinder . |
| 29 | She could not bind herself personally , with the result that she could not be made a bankrupt , unless she was carrying on a trade . |
| 30 | That feeling was strange , she resisted it , she knew that it was absurd as well as amoral , but in the end she told herself that she could not command her feelings : she was no longer able to torment herself with thoughts of their wars nor to enjoy their celebrations , because she was filled with the conviction that none of it was her concern . |