Example sentences of "she could [not/n't] [verb] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Athelstan just glared at her but still she could not control her mirth . |
| 2 | And though she recognized that some of it was rebellion at the hours of inactivity , she could not ignore her bladder . |
| 3 | And try as she might she could not detach her eyes from the object on the table that had so totally winded her . |
| 4 | Nicandra ran towards all that beauty — although she could not tell her trouble nor make any mention of the displeasing butterfly , she could be close in the adored distance . |
| 5 | She told herself that if she did not look up she would not need to see it and after a while this not-looking would become habitual , but in the event she could not prevent her eyes from turning up to the campanile . |
| 6 | She could not bear her aunt 's desperate face , nor her uncle 's increasing silence . |
| 7 | She could not hide her astonishment . |
| 8 | And when Mrs Stych returned , looking like a fat Christmas fairy and complaining that she could not fix her wings , he was able to pin them onto her dress without rancour and to tell a thoroughly bawdy joke , which made Hank explode with laughter and his wife look outraged . |
| 9 | And here she was , with Frank Grimwood of all people , shaking so much she could not fix her spectacles on her nose . |
| 10 | I guessed , as everyone else must have done , that at some point she could not manage her life any longer and had gone out and stepped into the stream as a way of escape . |
| 11 | She felt a sensation of floating , since the poison which had claimed her had blocked all physical feeling , and she could not move her head to see the men who were carrying her . |
| 12 | But in the evening , in her room , she could not finish her letter to him . |
| 13 | Owing to Amal 's seclusion as a female , she could not identify her attackers by name , only that they were acquaintances of her brother . |
| 14 | Zoë Rashid now accepted that she could not visit her mother before she flew out to Syria . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | LATE at night an elderly woman rang Christine Hall to say that she had refused much-needed hospital treatment because she could not leave her dog , Holly . |
| 17 | At first she could not open her eyes . |
| 18 | And Jay was pacing her attic , bars tightening and cracking around a heart that would not stop hurting ; she could not lay her body down though it screamed for rest and knots of fury made her neck and shoulders a steely hunch like a vulture . |
| 19 | She could not build her life on another 's pain , or on Havvie 's lies . |
| 20 | She could not clear her head of him , however much she told herself that he was a bastard . |
| 21 | The bodies were found on Wednesday after the couple 's daughter , Cathleen Mustow , alerted police because she could not contact her parents . |
| 22 | She could not remember her dream , only that it had been about Edmund and that he loved her . |
| 23 | It was about time she stopped feeling sorry for herself , the hurt and pain of losing mam would be with her for a long time , but Hari knew she could not let her grief incapacitate her , if she did not mend and make shoes she did not eat . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Her heart seemed to swell in her chest — she could not get her breath ! |
| 26 | But she found that she could not tear her eyes away from him . |
| 27 | But she could not lose her anxiety and , finding a guilty conscience the very devil to live with , she returned to her hotel hoping that she would never again be called upon to impersonate her sister . |
| 28 | In a letter to Robson she described their rekindled passion , feeling only slightly aggrieved that she could not put her arms around him ( presumably they go straight through ) . |
| 29 | Alyssia asked , puzzled , although she could not put her finger on why . |
| 30 | A GIRL Friday who quit her job because she could not trust her boss to leave her alone was yesterday awarded £2,390 for sex discrimination . |