Example sentences of "[pron] she could [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the same sensitive touch he brought to their lovemaking , and the knowledge only added to her store of love for him , for she saw how he was the sort of man who was all of a piece , mentally and physically , a complete human being , someone she could only admire , despite the hell he put her through . |
| 2 | Then she took them into Arkwright 's and bought them a bar of chocolate each , which she could ill afford , and they all went back to the Vicarage . |
| 3 | Had n't she already taken time off work which she could ill afford in her sister 's interests ? |
| 4 | Why go to all the trouble of providing her with information about Rainald , which she could easily have related to fitzAlan ? |
| 5 | Alone again , Belinda returned to her original plan and successfully reached the chair in the corner of the room , from which she could quietly observe the other guests without too much fear of attracting attention . |
| 6 | She then sought a fair rent , which she could only do if she were a tenant , but Mr Street of course argued that she was only a licensee . |
| 7 | She splashed herself liberally , trying to reduce the flush which she could still feel on her cheeks . |
| 8 | She had been the only passenger to alight from the two carriage train which she could still hear dimly in the distance , chuffing its way over the Severn Bridge on its way to Lydney . |
| 9 | After one stunned instant , for which she could hardly blame him , he reacted with admirable promptitude . |
| 10 | " Yes , there is , " Martha replied , with a firmness which she could hardly have inherited either from her father or her mother , " but there 's no reason why we should n't go and look at things . |
| 11 | It was a turn of the screw of which she could never have dreamt herself capable . |
| 12 | In the exercise of his power of arrest , it was perfectly proper for the constable to have taken into account that ‘ there was a greater likelihood … that Mrs Mohammed-Holgate would respond truthfully to questions about her connection with or knowledge of the burglary , if she were questioned under arrest at the police station , than if , without arresting her , questions were put to her … at her own home from which she could peremptorily order [ him ] to depart at any moment ’ . |
| 13 | Years later she told me she could never remember an angry word between them . |
| 14 | With what she was going to leave to each of her relations written down in it so that when she got fed up with one of them she could just strike his name out ! ’ |
| 15 | Most days they were invisible behind low cloud , but if Martha could not see them she could always feel them in the cold fury of the river and the eddying downdraughts of chill air which occasionally penetrated the valley . |
| 16 | In the long silence that stretched between them she could almost hear her heart pounding like a sledge-hammer in her chest . |
| 17 | It was a hard blow to all who loved Burma , for at one stroke the country lost outstanding leaders , men of real character and great promise , whom she could ill afford to lose . |
| 18 | The remark was tinged with the suggestion that she would like a witness , apart from Marshall whom she could reasonably assume to be biased in Wickham 's favour . |
| 19 | She had battled against all the odds to give that girl everything she could possibly want . |
| 20 | For one thing , it paid better than she could believe , and for another the work seemed to be something she could really get her teeth into . |
| 21 | This was something she could hardly bear to admit . |
| 22 | The idea of being able to control things and people was something she could hardly imagine . |
| 23 | Ace might not love her , and he was furious at having his hand forced by William Ash , but there was something she could maybe start to build on , and that was telling him the truth about her birth . |
| 24 | Something she could never do . |
| 25 | She had just lost something she could never get back . |
| 26 | She was wildly alive and singing inside , restlessly wanting something she could never have . |
| 27 | Something she could never have dreamt of . |
| 28 | When he spoke to her she could scarcely hear what he said for the thudding of her lovesick heart and the chattering of her teeth . |
| 29 | Julia was clearly on the point of accepting but remembering her manners pointed out that since Ian had brought her she could hardly desert him . |
| 30 | And through the pain that twisted inside her she could still feel his physical attraction like a magnetic force — and she knew that every other woman in the room could feel it too . |