Example sentences of "[noun sg] could not [verb] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tess could not accept her mother 's view of life , but perhaps Joan was right in this . |
| 2 | A girl could n't close her eyes and ears to it , but she could keep herself pure . |
| 3 | As she turned to greet the father with his offspring , the midwife could not believe her ears : ‘ Place it on the fire , ’ he commanded . |
| 4 | Léonie could not remember her face . |
| 5 | Cassie could n't see her eyes , but she was sure that they would be almond shaped and green , to go with the sexy red hair and double-cream complexion . |
| 6 | On the substantive application W. , who had attained the age of 16 , exercised her right to separate representation and resisted the application on the ground that section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969conferred on her the same right as an adult to refuse medical treatment so that the court could not override her decision . |
| 7 | Sooner or later she would have to stand before the Mother Superior and confess what she had done , but even that awful prospect could n't quell her joy just then . |
| 8 | The woman could n't keep her hands off her . |
| 9 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
| 10 | But doctors say a smaller chair could n't take her body weight . |
| 11 | MARGARET WINDSOR , a mathematical modeller in Harwell 's Combustion Centre could n't believe her eyes when she arrived for work . |
| 12 | There are other considerations too in cases of rape and incest where the female could not exercise her choice not to conceive . |
| 13 | Shiona could not believe her ears . |
| 14 | The Queen agreed , and Glumdalclitch could not hide her happiness . |
| 15 | From a traditional Labour background , my mother rejected the politics of solidarity and communality , always voted Conservative , for the left could not embody her desire for things to be really fair , for a full skirt that took twenty yards of cloth , for a half-timbered cottage in the country , for the prince who did not come . |
| 16 | ‘ Did n't I tell thee … did n't I say ! — Salt could n't contain her triumph . |
| 17 | several years in care , the sixteen-year-old could n't believe her luck when she landed a YTP place at Lurgan Community Workshop . |
| 18 | Rose could n't rationalise her urge to return to the cottage . |