Example sentences of "she think [pron] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did she think she could hide anything from this man with the golden eyes . |
| 2 | Nor , when their parents had already helped them more than enough with furniture and carpets and the like when they had first moved in , did she think she could take any more from them . |
| 3 | She says — she says she thinks she could get well again if children believed in fairies . |
| 4 | Others she thought she could rely on have since cut her off completely . |
| 5 | However , Betty did n't know Lord C very well if she thought she could embarrass him . |
| 6 | Hilda must have known all about it , so it just depends on whether she thought she could reform him , or whether she were content to take him as he was . ’ |
| 7 | No I think she thought she could guess at somebody who might be involved — like Person Y — but nothing more . ’ |
| 8 | She thought she could move |
| 9 | She glanced , covertly , at her watch , and saw to her relief that the feature film had only ten minutes to run ; she thought she could last ten minutes . |
| 10 | Her hair fell across her face , and she thought she could detect the faint scent of Nicolo 's cologne lingering on the golden strands . |
| 11 | She thought she could stay here for ever in this big solid house where Thomas translated the world for her . |
| 12 | On the fourth day he was off sick , and Mr Mulgrove asked Anna if she thought she could manage , and to ask Heather on flours and dried fruits if she was n't sure of anything . |
| 13 | Dare they call her bluff and just let her get on with whatever she thought she could do to inconvenience them ? |
| 14 | ‘ Well ? ’ he barked , clearly not ecstatic that she thought she could lay down conditions . |
| 15 | She knew she should n't speak to a strange man , but as her Brownie Guider was under a tree not many yards away she thought she could tell him about the litter that had caused the Pack to lose the use of Ferngrove Park . |
| 16 | She thought she could feel his eyes on her legs . |
| 17 | I mean I do n't know whether she thought she could put them in the garden when she got to the new place and they 'd grow but |
| 18 | For a while , she thought she could have been at any moderately boring Christmas party . |
| 19 | She thought she could know him as well as he knew himself . |
| 20 | Maybe she thought she could know him better . |
| 21 | At eighteen he was tending bar in San Francisco when an actress , taken with his clean-cut good looks , said she thought she could get him a scene shifter 's job at the theatre . |
| 22 | The doors to the deck were shut against the weather so she thought she could get ashore unseen . |
| 23 | She thought she could hear a noise . |
| 24 | She thought she could hear someone moving about . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps she thought she could learn something . |
| 26 | She thought she could see small shapes in the uprush of flame , like insects burning , crackling furiously as their shells ignited in a sudden flare of brilliance . |
| 27 | For a moment , she thought she could see it : fragile silver filaments of enchantment , gentle brittle frost-webs of something that was not quite light , but not quite solid , but somehow composed of both . |
| 28 | As the terminal surface moved past her helmet , she thought she could see a fine structure to it , a lattice of irregular cells which pulsed and churned while she watched . |
| 29 | She thought you could do better than that . |