Example sentences of "[pron] feel she could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephanie has such a pretty face and I felt she could be stunning if she slimmed right down . |
| 2 | Nor did she feel she could approach her own family for assistance . |
| 3 | Or maybe she felt she could do the briefing personally , as it were ? |
| 4 | She felt she could never forgive herself , but when she got there , the beauty of the place overcame her again . |
| 5 | Although it was murky , she felt she could almost pick out the silhouettes of other buildings up there , as if they were constructed on the inside of the dome itself . |
| 6 | She felt she could partially excuse his megalomaniac meddlings in her genes now that she knew he was mentally unstable . |
| 7 | That was as far as she felt she could go , though it was harmless enough . |
| 8 | She felt she could still continue to improve , so she decided to have further specialist physiotherapy treatment privately , under her medical insurance scheme . |
| 9 | She felt she could not give up totally , but settled for three or four slim cigars a day instead of ten to fifteen cigarettes . |
| 10 | How long she ran , or how far , she had no idea , but at last she felt she could go no farther . |
| 11 | This led to the development officer having to assume such a role herself , and occasionally this involved her in more work than she felt she could easily provide . |
| 12 | She said that because he was a volunteer she felt she could not call on him in the same way as with a paid worker . |
| 13 | With nine she felt she could not tell whether or not she could have provided support at home because it was impossible to assess their home care potential while they were in an institution . |
| 14 | Her father had expected excessively high standards of her as a child — better deportment , better table manners and better school reports — all of which she felt she could never attain . |
| 15 | I asked her whether she felt she could walk past them , giving them as wide a berth as the width of the pavement would allow . |
| 16 | She told me that she felt she could do this , and proceeded to do so . |
| 17 | ‘ But it was a very warm connection and I believe she felt she could phone me any time she wished . |
| 18 | Mrs Whitehouse , in turn , began to organise those organisations on whom she felt she could count for support . |
| 19 | I made the mistake of giving in too often and paying her so much attention that eventually she felt she could do exactly as she pleased . |
| 20 | Only later had it occurred to him to wonder whether he should feel alarmed by Charlotte 's anxious tone or flattered that she felt she could turn to him for advice . |
| 21 | When she felt she could not naturally stand by the window any longer she went and inspected the gritty old review copies of books which had somehow collected over the years on the office shelves — Take Your Car to North Africa ! |
| 22 | She felt she could not tell him the truth to his face , but there was another way . |
| 23 | He nodded , looked as though he was going to say something else , but then thought better of it , and headed off upstairs , leaving Alyssia clutching a confusing array of emotions , none of which she felt she could deal with . |
| 24 | Her head was beginning to throb from the smoky , claustrophobic atmosphere , and she wondered how she could tactfully drop a few hints about leaving without inviting a tirade of displeasure from André , which was the last thing she felt she could cope with . |
| 25 | Her own awareness of him was so strong that she felt she could have tracked him anywhere , just by the dizzying sensation of his presence . |
| 26 | Already she felt she could n't breathe , laced into this frock like a second skin . |
| 27 | That was impossible , because the heat and the champagne made her feel dizzy , till she felt she could hardly concentrate . |
| 28 | But she felt she could n't stay and drink tea and then just go off , it would n't be right to be slaking her thirst and sitting here chatting with her mother lying ill wondering what had happened . |
| 29 | She felt she could have done better than she did with her next remark . |
| 30 | She felt she could n't do it again and she was n't about to crawl back to tell Ned Clarke so and have him volunteer Glyn for the job . |