Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [not/n't] [verb] her [noun sg] " 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 Léonie could not remember her face .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 But doctors say a smaller chair could n't take her body weight .
6 There are other considerations too in cases of rape and incest where the female could not exercise her choice not to conceive .
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 .
9 ‘ Did n't I tell thee … did n't I say ! — Salt could n't contain her triumph .
10 several years in care , the sixteen-year-old could n't believe her luck when she landed a YTP place at Lurgan Community Workshop .
11 Rose could n't rationalise her urge to return to the cottage .
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