Example sentences of "but she could [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she could n't stop thinking of David in his white coat , visiting the patients , touching them , and this was where her thoughts made her tingle all over , and she had to set her mind to something else . |
| 2 | But she could n't drink milk could she ? |
| 3 | Nenna was ashamed , but she could n't make amends , not now . |
| 4 | She sensed his need to avenge that waiting , but she could n't form words to protest , pulled in to him , her mouth and then her breasts captive to the erotic magic of his lips and tongue , the writhing of her body an explicit demand for more . |
| 5 | But she could not ask Lubor anything about the man who attracted her so . |
| 6 | But she could maybe turn Elizabeth against her husband . |
| 7 | Her real destination was Fleet Street and the offices of the weekly Clarion Cry , but she could hardly inform Dr Neil or Matey of that interesting fact — it did n't quite fit the sad picture which she had drawn of the friendless , abandoned orphan without employment — not that the money which she earned from the Clarion would have kept her . |