Example sentences of "[vb past] she could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found she could just catch a direct Finnair flight if she hurried . |
| 2 | She , and could , found she could not fly and laid there looking at the sky . |
| 3 | She found she could not look up at him . |
| 4 | Tightening her lips as though afraid they might widen against her will , she then found she could n't bear the ensuing silence . |
| 5 | Caroline found she could n't speak . |
| 6 | While making herself a light meal , though , she found she could n't stop dreaming about him . |
| 7 | I 'd joined in trying to control the thing by now as Gillian found she could n't manage curves on her own . |
| 8 | But when , together , they had pulled shut the heavy door with its iron decorated bands , she found she could n't fit the key into the lock . |
| 9 | She found she could n't tell him after all . |
| 10 | She found she could n't continue , nor was she able to tear her gaze away from the dark , silky hair on his chest , only inches away from her eyes . |
| 11 | With this she knocked away the snow from the lettering — but then found she could n't make out the words in the dark . |
| 12 | When it came to the front door , she found she could n't go in . |
| 13 | She found she could n't tear her eyes away , and when he managed to get his second boot off and threw it to one side , then lifted his head , she was still staring . |
| 14 | She 's probably looked and found she could n't get anything better . |
| 15 | She had two children who only spoke Swedish , and she found she could n't learn the language . |
| 16 | But , though she tried , Ronni found she could n't smile back . |
| 17 | As she heard her front door click , Rachel 's anger suddenly turned to dismay and as she turned to the window she found she could only see the outline of the cathedral through a mist of tears . |
| 18 | And basically they managed to jump up on the bed unlike yesterday morning where pretended she could n't get up on the bed . |
| 19 | No matter how she tried she could n't prevent the arm from flopping out on to the floor . |
| 20 | But no matter how much she tried she could not prevent the shift in perceptions towards her . |
| 21 | So deeply and dreamlessly that when she woke she could n't think at first where she was ; nor place the strange noise at the back of her head . |
| 22 | I was just thinking that maybe at the beginning of the day people could , if she knows who is due she could actually write that in , and when they came she could just tick that that they 'd arrived . |
| 23 | The last time Ballater had been in the cottage was just before Miss Marshall had been forced out of it by her rapacious relatives , backed up by the insensitive local general practitioner who agreed she could n't cope . |
| 24 | Rosemary said more or less the same thing to Leith when next she saw her , and Leith realised she could not interfere , but just be there when Rosemary needed a friend . |
| 25 | ‘ Once she realised she could n't move her head , she was literally sick from terror , ’ says Janet . |
| 26 | Once Phoebe had started playing chess regularly again she realised she could probably have become considerably better than him quite quickly , but she did not want that enough to work on it . |
| 27 | She took one step forward , then realized she could not go on . |
| 28 | A CHARGE of rape on a mentally handicapped girl was dropped yesterday after a judge ruled she could not give evidence against her alleged attacker . |
| 29 | Soused herring was the standard hospital breakfast and she declared she could n't stomach that at seven o clock in the morning . |
| 30 | She knew from pictures in the Book of Instruction clandestinely glimpsed in her father 's library what to expect , approximately ; and she had seen animals ; but exactly what happened she could not imagine . |