Example sentences of "she could not [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought it dry , and it was , but she could not make a dent in the downpour itself . |
| 2 | Eventually she found them but could n't get near — the crowds were as dense further up and , push as she might , she could not make a parting for herself . |
| 3 | She could not control the power alone , was not meant to . |
| 4 | But her hand was shaking so much that she could not tell the time . |
| 5 | She could not tell the human who she was , but she remembered the feeling of affinity ; she tried to indicate that affinity , a finger pointed to holly and to human flesh , but the blank look remained in that fur-wrapped , pale-faced Tallis . |
| 6 | When she belatedly realised that she must be pregnant she could not tell the Englishman , because he was away from the camp leading an action against an important German supply dump . |
| 7 | But no matter how much she tried she could not prevent the shift in perceptions towards her . |
| 8 | That , and the discovery that she could not bear a man near her in the early days after the rape ; so she had feigned an illness , explained as the consequence of her breaking her engagement with Havvie , which , of course , had caused an immense furore inside and outside of society , and Mama and Papa had put off their visit to England , and sent her loving letters , for she had written that she had discovered that she did not really love Havvie at all , had merely been beglamoured by his appearance , name and title . |
| 9 | She closed her eyes as we did this as if she could not bear the spectacle of herself , a helpless , groaning hulk , being rolled about the bed . |
| 10 | For some time she had done all that was possible to avoid going out in the rain as she could not bear the thought of the water touching her skin . |
| 11 | She could not bear the thought that after all they had gone through , all they had sacrificed to get so far , it should end like this . |
| 12 | She could not bear the thought of returning to the street , going to the shop , to get the tin of dog food for her chihuahua 's midday meal . |
| 13 | Glancing once more at the figure in the bed , she could not bear the thought of climbing in beside it . |
| 14 | Having seen herself properly dressed again , she could not bear the thought of confronting him in the skimpy , shabby , ready-made clothes of wartime London . |
| 15 | She could not bear the thought of an autopsy being carried out on her son . |
| 16 | She could not bear the claustrophobia of the place , which magnified the smallest incidents or most trivial remarks into giant horrors . |
| 17 | Her research fellowship was coming to an end , and she could not bear the prospect of ‘ hanging on ’ for another year as a freelance supervisor of undergraduates , sponging on her parents . |
| 18 | No , she could not confirm the year of Eleanor Darcy 's marriage to Bernard . |
| 19 | A publicist for Cruise said she could not confirm the plan . |
| 20 | She could not speak the family 's language , and each evening Felix taught her some words . |
| 21 | Haughty , cold , and ignoring him , she could not disguise the hunger in the large brown eyes behind the net . |
| 22 | She could not move a step . |
| 23 | It appeared to be a sermon , of which , unlike a letter , she could not guess the content . |
| 24 | In many ways the life of a great political hostess was very attractive to her , which only made her feel more guilty , but she knew that she could not tolerate a life of subordination and absolute dependency . |
| 25 | A navy spokeswoman said later she could not explain the hold-up . |
| 26 | But again she could not finish the letter , thinking of his offer to Izz , and so he never received it . |
| 27 | But a factory job was out because she could not stand the noise , and her preference for a more intellectual activity ‘ is rather pitiful in view of the girl 's lack of general education and the nature of her former illness ’ . |
| 28 | She could not stand the thought of having a she-cat which would one day give birth to a large litter in her nice clean home and she did not wait to find out whether or not she-cats could be neutered . |
| 29 | But she could not stand the thought of doing nothing for two months . |
| 30 | Theda had perforce to let go , for she could not contain the hair now it had sprung in so disorderly a way from its moorings . |