Example sentences of "[adj] she could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she knew they were both wrong she could n't apportion blame to either of them , not yet , at any rate ; the only thing she knew at the moment was that what she had heard tied her to this house and the business as if she had signed a contract giving away her life . |
| 2 | It was clear she could not banish the image of the dying child . |
| 3 | If only conventions were not so rigid she could easily have had him for a lodger . |
| 4 | The change in her way of living was so vast she could scarcely credit it ; she would stop , sometimes , with the polishing rag in her hand , under the watchful eye of the parakeet , and say aloud : ‘ But this can never be me , not really me ! |
| 5 | She would need stock , after all , and if the selection was n't too impossible she could probably keep it long enough to clear it . |
| 6 | The other woman had caught her completely on the raw with her mention of the man she had seen Adam with , though to be honest she could n't really have said why . |
| 7 | When Alejandro yelled at Perdita to tack up a little chestnut gelding , she was so nervous she could hardly do up the throat lash or adjust the stirrups . |
| 8 | The sign of her barrenness filled her with depression , and as usual she could n't prevent an irrational moment of anger with Dmitri for being sterile . |
| 9 | At the end of the first year Susan realised that although the business was profitable she could hardly take out enough money to live on because she was heavily reliant on her bank and creditors already . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His voice was so low she could scarcely catch the words . |
| 12 | His voice was so low she could hardly hear him . |
| 13 | Cheshire social services chief David Whitehead said Siobhan was so weak she could hardly walk . |
| 14 | I was just thinking that maybe at the beginning of the day people could , if she knows who is due she could actually write that in , and when they came she could just tick that that they 'd arrived . |
| 15 | Starving her until the next evening , he coaxed her with pony nuts into a stall which Raimundo used for branding and saddling bigger horses , which was so narrow she could n't turn round . |
| 16 | Jess was glad she could n't see . |
| 17 | He grinned , glad she could n't see him . |
| 18 | She was glad she could n't see him properly ; the face that undoubtedly matched these horribly sarcastic comments would be bound to make her feel worse than she already did . |
| 19 | It would come up in the conversation all the time , ‘ So you 've been separated from your husband and you have no boyfriends ? ’ — No — ‘ Are n't you interested in having boyfriends ? ’ — No — Because she was man-mad she could n't understand why I was n't . |
| 20 | The weather was foul and despite all attempts by the owner to make the property look nice and homely she could n't quite hide the rainwater dripping through ceilings , black mould on walls with associated smells , or its generally poor condition . |
| 21 | Because when she was little she could n't say Jessica |
| 22 | ( Who ever heard of a mother falling so ill she could not take care of her household , whereas everywhere there were men drunk , mad , gaoled , old , worn out-who had become as children again to their wives ? ) |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not sure she could n't go to ten , and she 'd certainly be ten in looks if she smiled more often . ’ |
| 24 | Julius must have wedged the chair in the hall under the handle , to make sure she could n't get out . |
| 25 | I am not sure she could actually have gone so far as to say things like : ‘ these errors may be trivial in themselves , but you must yourself realize their larger significance ’ . |
| 26 | When she complained to a doctor that it was down below freezing she could not have been nearer the mark . |
| 27 | As her weight loss was so gradual she could n't believe that this was the cause so she attributed the benefit to the diet itself . |
| 28 | So if it was going to get rough she could n't be in safer hands . |
| 29 | he had fallen off twice more and ridden twelve different ponies by lunchtime and was so tired she could hardly eat . |
| 30 | Gradually she grew so tired she could hardly think . |