Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] she could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the boat went down between the waves and she could see only mountains of wild water everywhere . |
| 2 | ‘ Are n't you and Charles due to go off on holiday soon ? ’ she queried , when tea and biscuits were duly dispensed to Lucy and she could sit down on a wicker-backed chair and sip her own . |
| 3 | He could have dived for pearls and she could have painted . |
| 4 | His hands rested on her shoulders and she could feel the warmth of them through the coarse material of her bodice . |
| 5 | She might close her eyes but she could n't blot out what had happened the night before . |
| 6 | The twilight was fading fast when she entered the bedroom but she could see that the child was still sitting bolt upright in the bed . |
| 7 | Again she glanced at the windscreen of the other car but she could see nothing through the darkened glass . |
| 8 | Like her mother Jeanne was of a more sceptical frame of mind but she could not remain unaffected by the atmosphere of piety in the fifth-floor apartment . |
| 9 | It was right at the back of her mind but she could n't get it out . |
| 10 | Jo began frantically to try frame a lie in her mind but she could not think clearly . |
| 11 | Yeah , she 'd been to college but she could n't get her car started , she had to get her dad to drive her in and pick her up . |
| 12 | She opened her mouth but she could n't speak . |
| 13 | She had not had an answer from Ellen but she could not wait . |
| 14 | She could be at home or she could be up in the wood still . |
| 15 | The pail was by the window and she could see the darkening yard and coach-house through an arched gateway . |
| 16 | He let his head roll against the window and she could have believed he was doing something with his eyes to the countryside , the way he had done with his eyebrows to the men . |
| 17 | The light was an intense green and she could tell the passage of sun and seasons above her . |
| 18 | Give that club to a lady and she could no more control it than the power man could use her club effectively . |
| 19 | He certainly did ; the lift opened into a square red-carpeted hall and she could n't even hear anyone else . |
| 20 | He simply went back to the grooming and she could hardly believe it . |
| 21 | Loopy Lil had n't a steady enough hand for spillikins and she could n't count up to more than three for the dominoes but she seemed happy to watch and smile . |
| 22 | A quick change-over of the contents , attention to her make-up and she could be back at the barn with Luke in under five minutes . |
| 23 | ‘ They shouted at Trudy to open the till but she could n't open it because it had jammed . |
| 24 | I tried to persuade her to go home , even suggested I go with her to talk to her parents but she could n't even face that . |
| 25 | He rubbed his fingers through his hair and she could tell he was anxious . |
| 26 | But he could n't control it , for all his knowledge , and it would lift his hair into bristles so that he looked like Desperate Dan and she could n't help but laugh until his fragile ego wobbled and then he shouted and then she loved him more , more than when he was intact . |
| 27 | And so erm , it was n't as though these children ran across an open zebra crossing and she could see the children travelling er , walking or running all the way across the er er er er the pedestrian crossing the two children one was estimated by her to be about six years old , and the one who was actually knocked down was estimated by her to be about er , nine years old and she was n't travelling at any significant speed at all , she was travelling slowly because of the amount of traffic and she says that er the first she saw them was erm , appearing from the behind a car and dashing across the front of her car , and in fact , it was only the the the one who ran first the the older of the two children that she actually hit , she hit hit her with the near side front of er of her vehicle . |
| 28 | You might have put it on the word processor and she could print off |
| 29 | His shirt was silk and it was soft and sensual against her skin and she could feel his warmth . |
| 30 | But the cold had numbed her senses and all her ingenuity and she could think of nothing at all to do about that . |