Example sentences of "that she could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was so enthusiastic about what she saw and liked that she could transmit her ideas even if the appeal was not immediately obvious to us . |
| 2 | His mouth still quirked in the aftermath of his laughter , and she wished that he would move away from the top step so that she could pass him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That she could retain it through the tough years of the Depression with no outside help and very little money is remarkable . |
| 5 | She took a few deep breaths and told herself that she could handle him . |
| 6 | She suddenly wished that she had Finn here so that she could tell him a few more home truths . |
| 7 | Yes , and Isabel must know , must surely remember it , Isabel who had had such a well-developed , careful , private system for the storing , ordering , labelling , arrangement and organisation of things , whose books were in a certain line , so that she could tell you at once , and without ever having to get up , what sat next to what and where Lewis and Short or Cassell 's French-English would be found , were she to consent to your borrowing them because you had lost your own . |
| 8 | I work in Chipping Norton at the Presbytery and erm it just amazed me that she could tell someone not to smoke . |
| 9 | On the other hand , she did not feel that she could refuse him , because if she refused him , by what right and for what purpose had she gone there in the first place ? |
| 10 | The first thing she would have to do was to raise some capital so that she could rescue something from the dregs of her father 's business . |
| 11 | She dreaded the onset of winter , and on waking this morning she had thought that she could smell its breath in the air . |
| 12 | He was so near her that she could smell his cool lemony cologne . |
| 13 | so that she could sing it over you again . ’ |
| 14 | That she could abandon you — her four-year-old child — and never see you again ? |
| 15 | Paralysed in its grip , she kept telling herself , over and over again , that she must n't leave him to drown : whatever Bella had said to her , however much she herself hated him , there was no point in pretending to herself that she could abandon anyone , not even him , to die . |
| 16 | She told herself she wanted to have her photograph taken so that she could send it to Aunt Sarah , but really it was for herself . |
| 17 | In the early hours , she left with her husband Guy to drive back to Lourmarin so that she could open her restaurant in the morning . |
| 18 | Idly , she wondered if there was anything around that she could open it with . |
| 19 | It gave her confidence and she felt sure that she could hold her own against the Italian guests . |
| 20 | Anne still met John Redmond occasionally , and tried to keep up with world affairs so that she could hold her own when talking to him . |
| 21 | He was coming to realize that she could hold her own under fire . |
| 22 | She felt nauseous , and , terrified she might be sick , she pushed away his hand so that she could hold her head up . |
| 23 | However , in the context of the fragile family economy of the very poor in the years before World War I , it should be remembered that if a wife earned only 1/6d a week it meant that she could feed her family for two days . |
| 24 | Lucy did n't for one moment think that she could trick him or trip him , but knew that he 'd see her as young and naive and so might just let her get away with a little more . |
| 25 | Reluctantly , Jinny looked away from the woman so that she could inspect him . |
| 26 | She spread her towel over a cushion so that she could lean her damp , aching head against it , then shivered as she listened to the howl of the wind outside . |
| 27 | He hauled the basket up the slope , towards the place where Jinny had been , so that she could retrieve hers , but he did not stop there . |
| 28 | And though she half hoped that Friend would wheel alongside her so that she could ignore him , he did n't appear . |
| 29 | Once they had spent an enjoyable week in Bath and on another occasion he had suggested going to Cornwall so that she could show him the house where she was brought up . |
| 30 | Rosa often went to the washplace with Sabina to help her and she was glad that she could pull her blue cotton dress out of the basket and slosh it into the water before anyone else could examine it for stains ; not that the stain spoke openly of its origins ; it could easily have been milk , thought Rosa . |