Example sentences of "she could only [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But her mouth was dry with tension , and she could only manage orange juice and coffee .
2 She tells me that when she came to South Africa from Lithuania in 1910 and met her husband Abe Moses , she could only speak Yiddish .
3 She could only hope Dane would feel the same way .
4 If she could only stop eating .
5 Just so long as the two of them were involved professionally , she was at ease with him , but once that link was severed , she could only feel antagonism towards him .
6 There was so much about her that Louise admired , she could only suspend judgement on the rest .
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