Example sentences of "[pron] could not [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not bear her loss . |
| 2 | I could not understand her ideas but I had a feeling she might be right . |
| 3 | Sharon , that 's it , I could not get her name last night . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Athelstan just glared at her but still she could not control her mirth . |
| 6 | Now it did not even strike her as odd or ungracious that Jenny , after their long separation , should have no time for questions or interest about her sojourn in America or her journey home , and that she could not control her own unhappiness for the sake of welcoming back her sister . |
| 7 | And though she recognized that some of it was rebellion at the hours of inactivity , she could not ignore her bladder . |
| 8 | And try as she might she could not detach her eyes from the object on the table that had so totally winded her . |
| 9 | Nicandra ran towards all that beauty — although she could not tell her trouble nor make any mention of the displeasing butterfly , she could be close in the adored distance . |
| 10 | Her imagined crime was something she could not tell her beloved and admired brother , and without that there had been nobody at all . |
| 11 | She told herself that if she did not look up she would not need to see it and after a while this not-looking would become habitual , but in the event she could not prevent her eyes from turning up to the campanile . |
| 12 | She could not bear her aunt 's desperate face , nor her uncle 's increasing silence . |
| 13 | She could not hide her astonishment . |
| 14 | Fen held her a little away from him , his hand going under her chin so that she could not hide her tear-streaked face . |
| 15 | And when Mrs Stych returned , looking like a fat Christmas fairy and complaining that she could not fix her wings , he was able to pin them onto her dress without rancour and to tell a thoroughly bawdy joke , which made Hank explode with laughter and his wife look outraged . |
| 16 | And here she was , with Frank Grimwood of all people , shaking so much she could not fix her spectacles on her nose . |
| 17 | I guessed , as everyone else must have done , that at some point she could not manage her life any longer and had gone out and stepped into the stream as a way of escape . |
| 18 | The first was an 87-year old widow with an OBS score of eight , living on her own in a local authority flat ; she had very poor mobility , was subject to falls , and had an increasing tendency to incontinence ; she could not manage her own personal care nor the care of her home . |
| 19 | She could not manage her own personal care or care of her house , and was deemed to be at risk when on her own . |
| 20 | Feeling that she could not move her left arm or leg , she sat down on the stairs . |
| 21 | She felt a sensation of floating , since the poison which had claimed her had blocked all physical feeling , and she could not move her head to see the men who were carrying her . |
| 22 | She knew she was being baited , and yet she could not stop her shocked reply . |
| 23 | But in the evening , in her room , she could not finish her letter to him . |
| 24 | Owing to Amal 's seclusion as a female , she could not identify her attackers by name , only that they were acquaintances of her brother . |
| 25 | Zoë Rashid now accepted that she could not visit her mother before she flew out to Syria . |
| 26 | Although Russia scored major victories against Austria-Hungary in 1914 and again in 1916 , she could not hold her own against Germany . |
| 27 | That feeling was strange , she resisted it , she knew that it was absurd as well as amoral , but in the end she told herself that she could not command her feelings : she was no longer able to torment herself with thoughts of their wars nor to enjoy their celebrations , because she was filled with the conviction that none of it was her concern . |
| 28 | LATE at night an elderly woman rang Christine Hall to say that she had refused much-needed hospital treatment because she could not leave her dog , Holly . |
| 29 | Alice thought she could not leave her only child , her baby daughter , that she might never see again , without holding her once more , without at least giving her a last kiss . |
| 30 | At first she could not open her eyes . |