Example sentences of "she could [vb infin] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she grappled with the staples she could feel inside the bag the firm shape of a book . |
| 2 | He was very fond of her but it strained imagination to see how she could fit into a policeman 's life . |
| 3 | Then she laid down as many of the others as she could fit in the space . |
| 4 | She has , however , been informed that she could remain on the RGU staff if she accepted a demotion to ordinary lecturer — the post held by her sister , Mrs Barbara Diack , who , in turn , would lose her job . |
| 5 | Besides , she could swim round the headland too , and vanish . |
| 6 | Johnny had moved to the far end of the room and she could no longer see him , but she could guess at the expression on his face . |
| 7 | Auntie Lou said she could sew a piece of material on the bottom to lengthen the skirt but there was nothing she could do about the top and Carrie cried a little , privately , not because the dress was no use but because her mother should have guessed how much she had grown . |
| 8 | Since there had been clearly nothing she could do about the situation , Laura had been forced to buckle down and do what she could to keep the twins happy . |
| 9 | On the holiday side of it — well , from her point of view she could do with a respite from thinking about that interview . |
| 10 | The girl looked as if she could do with a fairy godmother , or perhaps just a mother . |
| 11 | Sarah answered the door ; she wore a shabby blue woollen dress , her grey hair straggled and she looked as though she could do with a wash . |
| 12 | ‘ She could do with a bit of growing up , ’ observed Davyd , the shrewd Welsh gardener . |
| 13 | She still felt a bit wobbly on her legs and she knew too that she could do with a holiday . |
| 14 | She could do with a glimpse into the future right now , she decided grimly , particularly since it seemed her irritating companion was intent on being obstructive , despite his apparent change of attitude . |
| 15 | Coun Fishwick said there was not a lot she could do with the proclamation , adding it was county council business anyway . |
| 16 | She could do without the Romance and the Glamour , the heart-stopping uniform and the V.C. |
| 17 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 18 | She prayed the guttering would hold her weight as she slowly hauled herself up until she could sit astride the peak of the roof . |
| 19 | And you know yesterday she had the nerve to ask me if she could sit at the end of our table . |
| 20 | ‘ He wanted her to go and buy some presentable clothes she could wear to the sort of smart restaurants he was taking her to . ’ |
| 21 | Maybe she 'd always had someone to look after her ; he 'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life , first his mother and then Margaret , who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening . |
| 22 | We soon discovered , not surprisingly , that she could cope with a curry far hotter than we could eat . |
| 23 | I asked my neighbour to turn down her records as I found it impossible to concentrate and she said the only way she could cope with the stress of her reality was to blast her music . |
| 24 | Quickly she looked away , fiddling with papers on her desk , not sure she could cope with the anguish in his eyes that mirrored her own , but David lingered . |
| 25 | Even on Christmas Day , after church , she could walk to the shop and buy her necessaries . |
| 26 | She realised it was crammed full of television sets , and sedately moved to the next , to examine dresses , until she could walk into the Supermarket without anyone remarking her breathing . |
| 27 | Carla took her shoes off and loosed his arm so that she could walk through the lip of foam . |
| 28 | She was working for his charity for a third of what she could earn in the City , he enthused . |
| 29 | As in the earlier case of David II , sent as a child to France in 1334 in exactly the same circumstances , when the English were menacing southern Scotland , the presumption was that she could grow up in safety , until she could return as an adult to rule her kingdom . |
| 30 | He looked calmly , almost — as far as she could tell in the light that poured from the house onto the terrace — amusedly at her . |