Example sentences of "she [verb] she could [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Betty did n't know Lord C very well if she thought she could embarrass him . |
| 2 | Hilda must have known all about it , so it just depends on whether she thought she could reform him , or whether she were content to take him as he was . ’ |
| 3 | She knew she should n't speak to a strange man , but as her Brownie Guider was under a tree not many yards away she thought she could tell him about the litter that had caused the Pack to lose the use of Ferngrove Park . |
| 4 | She thought she could know him as well as he knew himself . |
| 5 | Maybe she thought she could know him better . |
| 6 | At eighteen he was tending bar in San Francisco when an actress , taken with his clean-cut good looks , said she thought she could get him a scene shifter 's job at the theatre . |
| 7 | His voice was very gentle , and she knew she could trust him . |
| 8 | She wished she could tell him that Mr Evans had n't stolen the Will after all , but Nick had never thought that he had , so there was no point in it . |
| 9 | She wished she could tell him that was nonsense but she feared Pascoe 's death was confirmation of something she had imagined , not proof of something she had found incredible . |
| 10 | He was openly laughing at her , and she wished she could push him into the sea . |
| 11 | She wished she could take him back with her . |
| 12 | He had the worry and responsibility of his sister on his shoulders , and she wished she could take him in her arms and comfort him . |
| 13 | She took the memory of it upstairs to bed with her , but all the time that she wrote she could see him sitting there as he had been when he had first lit the lamp , his face full of an old pain . |