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 | As she turned to greet the father with his offspring , the midwife could not believe her ears : ‘ Place it on the fire , ’ he commanded . |
| 3 | Léonie could not remember her face . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There are other considerations too in cases of rape and incest where the female could not exercise her choice not to conceive . |
| 6 | Shiona could not believe her ears . |
| 7 | The Queen agreed , and Glumdalclitch could not hide her happiness . |
| 8 | 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 . |