Example sentences of "she could not [vb infin] her [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | She could not bear her aunt 's desperate face , nor her uncle 's increasing silence . |
| 5 | She could not hide her astonishment . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But in the evening , in her room , she could not finish her letter to him . |
| 9 | Zoë Rashid now accepted that she could not visit her mother before she flew out to Syria . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She could not build her life on another 's pain , or on Havvie 's lies . |
| 13 | She could not clear her head of him , however much she told herself that he was a bastard . |
| 14 | She could not remember her dream , only that it had been about Edmund and that he loved her . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Her heart seemed to swell in her chest — she could not get her breath ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Alyssia asked , puzzled , although she could not put her finger on why . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In the opening stage of their affair she could not keep her column free of the subject of her lover , even indirectly . |
| 22 | A love struck farmer 's daughter was told she could not see her sweetheart . |
| 23 | Sally-Anne Tunstall , beloved daughter of Senator Jared Tunstall , arguably the richest man in the USA , and his dear wife Mary , niece of Orrin Tunstall , the American ambassador , society beauty , heiress , spoiled child of fortune , who had once thought that the world was her ball to play with , sat on her bed in an East End attic , dressed in her skivvy 's clothing , grieving because she could not consummate her love for a poor doctor who had renounced the world over which she had once reigned . |
| 24 | She could n't cloak her antagonism which was all the worse for the element of truth in what he said . |
| 25 | Since Adam had been monopolising practically all her time , she could n't protest her dislike of him too vehemently . |
| 26 | She could n't hold her head up . |
| 27 | And somehow she could n't stop her gaze from straying to the triangle of naked chest where his shirt buttons were open . |
| 28 | By the end of the second day she had it firmly fixed in her head that Alain was simply ignoring the fact that she was here , and as this was his house she could n't make her mind up whether this was discourteous or a great relief . |
| 29 | Constance wanted to run home but she knew that she could n't leave her bike . |
| 30 | Branches clawed at her hair and she felt like she had done years ago , waiting for Jezrael to catch up , knowing she was going to be late for school , but she could n't leave her sister to struggle in on her own . |