Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] she could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Day after day she could be seen sitting cross-legged on the carpet in front of her house , a pair of silver-rimmed spectacles perched across her mask , a copy of the Qur'an or a book of the Hadith on her lap , oblivious to the movements of the household . |
| 2 | Her eyes rounded and she hugged every scrap of blanket she could around her body , making a barrier to his hot eyes . |
| 3 | Of course she could n't make poor Mrs Fanshawe 's bed while they were poking about and it was nearly twelve before she managed to get the poor deluded creature into a chair and the sheets whipped off . |
| 4 | Her desire was never to see or speak to Ellen again but of course she could not allow herself such a luxurious vengeance . |
| 5 | She knew nothing about him ( none of us did ) , though of course she could see both how he looked and how we all looked at him . |
| 6 | ‘ When I got home , the doctor came and said of course she could n't cook , so I was doing the cooking . |
| 7 | She replied that of course she could trust me , but that this time she would like us to meet . |
| 8 | Of course she could n't leave Henrietta alone in the house , the tall building she had bought with great-aunt Dorothy 's money . |
| 9 | Of course she could say it was for the children , as people always did … |
| 10 | ‘ But of course she could n't . |
| 11 | Of course she could , she told herself , clenching her fists and gazing unseeingly at the distant mountain-tops . |
| 12 | But of course she could n't ; she had to sit there and be polite , supporting him as the next chairman , knowing that was exactly what he was , knowing no one could handle the job better , and knowing too that he was one day going to get around to handling her … superbly . |
| 13 | Yet for Rita Allen , life in Canada has brought promise of a fuller future — a kind of future she could n't have contemplated before . |
| 14 | The only glimmer of light she could see at the moment seemed to come from the cheerful faces of the Rafferty children whenever they arrived on the Four Winds doorstep . |
| 15 | With a rush of emotion she could n't put a name to Luce realised that her first instinctive feeling about him had been absolutely right . |
| 16 | His patience was dwindling and for the first time in four years of marriage she could see he was on the point of losing his temper . |
| 17 | These were the feelings of loss at the death of her first husband , which she had not yet worked through , her sense of guilt at letting social services help out , and her feeling of remorse at the kind of marriage she could offer Stanley . |
| 18 | Suddenly she was filled with a strange sense of foreboding she could n't understand . |
| 19 | She had a burning desire to pack her case and leave on the first mode of transport she could find — she would even settle for a donkey if there was one . |
| 20 | The breeze flowing off the river was cool , but it could n't cool the hot flames of desire she could feel curling inside her . |
| 21 | At this point of crisis she could n't bear a quiet limbo . |
| 22 | It was just the kind of chance she could n't miss , and if she had to miss the next flight home she was sure Lord C would understand . |
| 23 | Even in the half-tones of night she could see the narrowing of those dangerous sapphire eyes , see sparks of desire bringing them to their full colour . |
| 24 | It was the sort of arrangement she could imagine suiting Tony very well . |
| 25 | Little as she relished the idea , she supposed she would have to go up there before the light went altogether — see if there was some kind of signal she could make to advertise her presence . |
| 26 | In that state of ignorance she could not , when she signed the transfer , have known she was dealing with her son 's property . |
| 27 | ‘ He took her all right — took her to the kind of life she could never have dreamed of . |
| 28 | And even in her present state of turmoil she could appreciate that he was a very handsome man , in a sombre , brooding sort of way . |
| 29 | She needed every scrap of self-confidence she could rustle up , she thought , then grinned crookedly at the wary light in her eyes reflected by the glass . |
| 30 | He had wooed her with hunger tempered with tenderness , lifting her to heights of fulfilment she could never have even imagined before she had met him , and she 'd been a willing , eager vessel , wreaking her woman 's power over him , submitting joyfully to his possession until in the final moment of consummation she had robbed him of his strength , leaving him as helpless as Samson shorn of his crowning glory . |