Example sentences of "[verb] she could [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even to imagine she could love him was absurd . |
| 2 | And she had thought she could subjugate him ! |
| 3 | She said , ‘ Oliver , ’ and there was no answer , though she had thought she could hear him breathing . |
| 4 | She smiled up at him , wishing she could will the tension out of his body , wishing she could make him relax that guard . |
| 5 | family she says quite an eye opener an they had write lines if they did anything wrong one boy just I reckon she could carried him but |
| 6 | He had rejected the best deal she could offer him . |
| 7 | Mary knew she could twist him around her little finger . |
| 8 | His voice was very gentle , and she knew she could trust him . |
| 9 | Hilda must have known all about it , so it just depends on whether she thought she could reform him , or whether she were content to take him as he was . ’ |
| 10 | However , Betty did n't know Lord C very well if she thought she could embarrass him . |
| 11 | She knew she should n't speak to a strange man , but as her Brownie Guider was under a tree not many yards away she thought she could tell him about the litter that had caused the Pack to lose the use of Ferngrove Park . |
| 12 | She thought she could know him as well as he knew himself . |
| 13 | Maybe she thought she could know him better . |
| 14 | At eighteen he was tending bar in San Francisco when an actress , taken with his clean-cut good looks , said she thought she could get him a scene shifter 's job at the theatre . |
| 15 | Devious devil ; she should have known better than to think she could fool him . |
| 16 | Said she could handle him . ’ |
| 17 | She took the memory of it upstairs to bed with her , but all the time that she wrote she could see him sitting there as he had been when he had first lit the lamp , his face full of an old pain . |
| 18 | She wished she could tell him that Mr Evans had n't stolen the Will after all , but Nick had never thought that he had , so there was no point in it . |
| 19 | She wished she could tell him that was nonsense but she feared Pascoe 's death was confirmation of something she had imagined , not proof of something she had found incredible . |
| 20 | He was openly laughing at her , and she wished she could push him into the sea . |
| 21 | When he said too readily , ‘ Yeah , could be , ’ she knew the blue haze of his need to reassure her , and wished she could believe him . |
| 22 | She wished she could take him back with her . |
| 23 | He had the worry and responsibility of his sister on his shoulders , and she wished she could take him in her arms and comfort him . |
| 24 | Frightened , but believing this was only a passing sense of panic , Monika ran to the church hoping she could calm him . |
| 25 | If she really wanted she could get him sent to prison . |