Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't bear her judgements , I did n't agree , I do n't agree , with her values . |
| 2 | I could n't bear her look of hurt expectancy any more , so I tore myself away from her face and walked off . |
| 3 | I could n't tell her mine was n't a route she 'd stand much chance of following . |
| 4 | But I gave her a cold stare and fluffed my fur out ; I could n't have her thinking I was a pushover . |
| 5 | I could n't believe her reaction , she was totally stupefied . |
| 6 | I could n't see her face but I knew she was older than I was . |
| 7 | I could n't see her face very clearly now , but could sense how she 'd withdrawn from me . |
| 8 | Although I could n't see her face properly , her tongue was painting my image by numbers . |
| 9 | She was lying almost abeam of us , and at first I could n't see her hull , but only a sort of thickening of the mist that turned out to be her mast . |
| 10 | I could not bear her loss . |
| 11 | I could not understand her ideas but I had a feeling she might be right . |
| 12 | Sharon , that 's it , I could not get her name last night . |
| 13 | It was a long while before I could even change her nappy , and putting clothes on , you had to disconnect all the wires , put the clothes on and put them all back . |
| 14 | I could never see her thick black tuft of pubic hair without longing to go with my father into that dark Moravian pine forest , stretching all the way from the Carpathians , which surrounded our home . |
| 15 | I suffered with her that evening , right through every moment , and when I went to bed at around midnight I could still hear her crying into her pillow — not a sound that sends a mother peacefully to sleep . |
| 16 | I could still hear her voice , the way she had said , ‘ You do n't approve , do you ? ’ |
| 17 | When I reached my gate I could still see her grey shape at the door . |
| 18 | I could still see her eyes twinkling , hear her voice and her laughter like a gold thread sparkling through a tapestry of words . |
| 19 | Karen did , and I could quite understand her apprehension at the prospect of trying to maintain her rigid code of etiquette beneath the hot southern sun , in a festive holiday atmosphere , with both of us under the same roof twenty-four hours a day . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh — ’ I could almost hear her hiccup — ‘ it 's so good , darling , hearing you talking like that . ’ |
| 21 | It was n't until we got to Redbridge Station that she thought — and I could almost hear her thinking — about the envelope and the fiver I 'd given her . |
| 22 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 23 | But then she reminded herself that Miguel had entrusted her with his secret , and there was no way she could even explain her unhappiness to anyone . |
| 24 | He roared up beside her and ground to a halt , the silence after the noise of the engine actually quite frightening , and he was out of the Land Rover and towering above her before she could even open her mouth . |
| 25 | She could even pluck her eyebrows ! |
| 26 | He squatted to take his sister by the shoulder and rouse her ; she was groggy , she could barely lift her eyelids to look at him , but when she saw who it was , she wrapped her arms around him , and pressed her head to his chest . |
| 27 | She could barely open her mouth to whimper : |
| 28 | She could barely turn her head to watch him as he backed out of the room and closed the door ; a moment later , the sounds of the fire irons against stone resumed . |
| 29 | She could finally drop her hated nickname Bruiser ! |
| 30 | Ruth scathed , her chest heaving so hard she could scarcely catch her breath . |