Example sentences of "i could [adv] [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a long while before I could even change her nappy , and putting clothes on , you had to disconnect all the wires , put the clothes on and put them all back . |
| 2 | I could never see her thick black tuft of pubic hair without longing to go with my father into that dark Moravian pine forest , stretching all the way from the Carpathians , which surrounded our home . |
| 3 | I suffered with her that evening , right through every moment , and when I went to bed at around midnight I could still hear her crying into her pillow — not a sound that sends a mother peacefully to sleep . |
| 4 | I could still hear her voice , the way she had said , ‘ You do n't approve , do you ? ’ |
| 5 | When I reached my gate I could still see her grey shape at the door . |
| 6 | I could still see her eyes twinkling , hear her voice and her laughter like a gold thread sparkling through a tapestry of words . |
| 7 | Karen did , and I could quite understand her apprehension at the prospect of trying to maintain her rigid code of etiquette beneath the hot southern sun , in a festive holiday atmosphere , with both of us under the same roof twenty-four hours a day . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh — ’ I could almost hear her hiccup — ‘ it 's so good , darling , hearing you talking like that . ’ |
| 9 | It was n't until we got to Redbridge Station that she thought — and I could almost hear her thinking — about the envelope and the fiver I 'd given her . |