Example sentences of "[conj] she could [vb infin] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her girlfriends , particularly her former flatmates , would have rallied round but she did not feel that she could inflict them with such a burden of responsibility . |
| 2 | With an effort , she drove from her mind the thought of the return journey , filling it instead with the experience of the moment , absorbing the sights , the impressions and sensations , storing them in her brain , wishing she had a notebook with her so that she could record them in all their vividness and immediacy . |
| 3 | His eyes , now that she could see them clearly , abraded her flesh with a cold more searing than the icy wind blowing up from the valley this morning . |
| 4 | Probably she had some old typing paper of Walter 's still around in the attic , so she could make them look convincing . |
| 5 | Can you imagine a woman trying to get two men into bed so she could watch them ? ’ |
| 6 | Jezrael knew she wanted someone to attack her so she could tear them apart , glory in their blood , and she hated herself . |
| 7 | She saved her curses until she could shout them into the night — then swallowed them anyway out of paranoia . |
| 8 | Well when she 's level Clare means she 's well ahead of herself and now she 's got , you could give her books that were appropriate for a ten year old and she could read them |
| 9 | In one , the infant 's mother was placed behind a clear screen so that the male and infant could see her and she could see them . |
| 10 | And she could hear them talking through the bedroom wall . |
| 11 | Apparently her parents think she 's staying with wanted to know if she could send them our phone number and say she was staying here . |
| 12 | Bank clerk Hilary Williams said : ‘ When Mrs Matthews first came in to check if she could change them , I thought she must be joking . |
| 13 | There was nothing for it but that she visit the company directors in person and see if she could persuade them of her determination to rebuild the business . |
| 14 | Then she went down to the cancer shop and asked if she could help them . |
| 15 | What would Dana say if she could see them now ? |
| 16 | ‘ When Señor Mitchell gets back I would like us all to have a nice little trip , ’ she announced , sitting and smiling round almost as if she could see them . |
| 17 | Her credentials , if she could call them that , had somehow got about . |
| 18 | She did not throw clothes away if she could mend them or alter them to make them more fashionable . |
| 19 | knew that , but she could stare them out . |
| 20 | But she could rebuild them . |
| 21 | Julia could n't sleep because she could smell them in her room , so she came into my room to talk to me . |
| 22 | The words were out before she could stop them . |
| 23 | The words were out before she could stop them . |
| 24 | Shock waves of desire flashed through her form before she could stop them . |
| 25 | The words , softly intense , were out before she could stop them . |
| 26 | ‘ This is nice , Lily , ’ she said ; she had arrived at Lily Bates 's machine , and the words popped out before she could stop them . |
| 27 | The words were out before she could monitor them . |
| 28 | ‘ The one about absence making the heart grow fonder of the girl next door , ’ Lucy quipped , the words slipping out before she could give them sufficient consideration . |
| 29 | Then , before she could put them back on , and to send her thoughts scattering , he directed , ‘ Do n't wear those while I 'm around ; they offend my sense of beauty . ’ |
| 30 | I 'll put them in the bin then , ’ she replied , but before she could get them off the cart he handed us the balloons . |