Example sentences of "she could [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The stark desire in his face threatened to take what strength she had left , nor did he make any attempt to hide the blatant response of his body to that consuming , passionate kiss , continuing to hold her so tightly that she could feel him with every part of her being , could still taste him inside her mouth .
2 She could feel nothing but the cold , that seemed to have filled every pore of her body .
3 There was a terrible rage in him , she could feel it like an electric charge in the room .
4 Before she could fit it in the lock the door opened .
5 She saved her curses until she could shout them into the night — then swallowed them anyway out of paranoia .
6 She could do nothing about the cold or the slick damp that covered the walls , but she had gathered as much straw as she could and had made a bed in the driest of the cells .
7 She saw Naylor 's sharp glance go over her , but , while she quickly lowered her glance , she could do nothing about the unexpected riot of colour that flooded her face .
8 Ruth kept her distance from him but she could do nothing about the wretched aura that surrounded him .
9 She was frantic to know more but her own ambulance was involved in an accident and she could do nothing until the end of her duty to learn whether or not Chris was involved .
10 I mean I wo n't go into detail , but I mean she could do endowment , she could do it on a maximum investment plan basis , to back up her P E P , erm and save regularly through different funds .
11 She could do it on the back an'all , she 's got a third of an acre of garden , it 's bloody massive .
12 A cell awaited her , and certain death — unless she could throw herself on the Queen 's mercy .
13 She could busy herself in the garden till then .
14 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 .
15 That she could retain it through the tough years of the Depression with no outside help and very little money is remarkable .
16 Perhaps she could smell me through the door .
17 The officer said she believed she could link them to the offence .
18 She was Labour , she said , but was n't sure she could make it to the polls .
19 She sincerely hoped that she could make it to the track before any car came because she knew exactly what a mess she looked .
20 Leonora watched him go with mixed feelings , not really sure she could make it to the bathroom alone , despite her fine words .
21 She could sense it in the way men talked to her , the sideways glances of strangers .
22 I was thinking of asking Monica if she could record something from the the Model Car Club and
23 The first thing she would have to do was to raise some capital so that she could rescue something from the dregs of her father 's business .
24 She could cow him at a glance .
25 If the hon. Member for Wolverhampton , North-East ( Mrs. Hicks ) wants to raise the matter , she could raise it on the Adjournment .
26 She could lose herself in a place like this ; if not in the valley itself , then in some other part of the region .
27 As she danced she could lose herself in the movement .
28 The queer thought : Doctor , she could read him like a book .
29 She could read nothing from the parchment of his face .
30 He was openly laughing at her , and she wished she could push him into the sea .
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