Example sentences of "[adv] she could [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And suddenly she could n't escape quickly enough . |
| 2 | Obviously aware of the moment when he 'd won the battle , Dane released her hands , and her arms slid of their own accord round his back , pulling him closer still , as if suddenly she could n't get enough of him . |
| 3 | Suddenly she could n't sit still any longer , and jumping up , she paced to the window of her sitting-room and peered out . |
| 4 | I used to think she did this because she loved my father so much she could n't wait for him to come home . |
| 5 | She gave birth to it , only she could n't keep the kid by her because of what Dynmouth people would say about it . |
| 6 | Only she could n't help it , sometimes , with Tom . |
| 7 | Only she could n't touch us if we were hurt . |
| 8 | Only she could not stop seeing the strange boy 's face . |
| 9 | Violet increasingly aware of prowling men — and , much more alarming , threatening — that she should move , only she could not move : the scowls of the whores , and some mean faces , eyes like flints , that she was poaching . |
| 10 | It seemed outrageously unfair that after so long she could not have him to herself and she hoped that his lodger would be tactful enough to leave them in peace during her visit . |
| 11 | Offhand she could n't think of anything . |
| 12 | Perhaps she could n't come . |
| 13 | And obviously she could n't do that . |
| 14 | Mr Barnet — it was clearly he — continued to look at her , and while he did so she could not look away . |
| 15 | So she could not let her go alone but must stand in the crowds being shoved , the smell of greasy food and litter breathed over her in this hot air , and the constant blare of noise grinding at her . |
| 16 | So she could n't rescue Elinor until she left Eastbourne General . |
| 17 | so she could n't any more . |
| 18 | So she could n't go out to work cos she 'd got young girls to bring up so they went to the social and the social turned round and said to them before we give you any money you 've got ta spend all this bloody redundancy you 've got ta have used all your savings , including the kids savings , and you 've got ta have nothing ! |
| 19 | ‘ If she married Mr. Gordon she 'd live at Longreen , so she could still be our Brown Owl , ’ argued Anita , ‘ but if she married somebody else and lived away she could n't go on being . ’ |
| 20 | She wanted to hurt the man who had told her Rob had n't come back , but he had tried to be kind and anyway she could n't think clearly . |
| 21 | Somehow she could not help but suspect that he would think it immoral to squeeze extra wages out of his stepfather , only to hoard them beneath the floorboards . |
| 22 | But somehow she could not imagine Francie putting his eye to the keyhole , even only once , just to see her without her knickers — his back was too stiff , his neck too rigid . |
| 23 | She drank half of bitter normally , but somehow she could n't say that to him . |
| 24 | She 'd wondered who 'd handle that side of it somehow she could n't imagine the night manager himself with a housekeeping trolley piled high with sheets and towels . |
| 25 | Jessamy knew she should go , it was her phone , but somehow she could n't seem to move . |
| 26 | There was a whole fury of protestations hovering on the edge of her lips , but somehow she could n't seem to find the energy to voice them . |
| 27 | Only somehow she could n't imagine Luke Hunter being delayed by anything as feeble as stepping in front of a taxi . |
| 28 | But somehow she could n't let go . |
| 29 | Somehow she could n't find the strength to confront him with her suspicions again , and , if she had , what would he have done ? |
| 30 | She wanted the record to last forever , because somehow she could n't believe that this incredible moment would ever be repeated again — surely she would never feel such anticipation , such sharp , glorious pleasure . |