Example sentences of "she could [adv] do [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew that she could not do it alone . |
| 2 | As the girls changed for the dance , giggling , excited , she had moments when she thought that she could not do it , that she would prefer to go in her skirt and jersey . |
| 3 | She tried very hard to climb up the table leg , but she could not do it . |
| 4 | She could not do it . |
| 5 | She tried to skim again , but her tears fell so that she could not do it . |
| 6 | of the way to her goal ; but , as a Minister on the right of the Conservative party under political pressures , she could not do it . |
| 7 | Maybe she felt that if she could n't do it now , she would never do it ; maybe that was why her face hardened as she watched them , still apart , and imagined them , together . |
| 8 | Well cos she d she could n't do it . |
| 9 | She could n't even eat with people she did n't like , and as for sleeping with anyone — unless she was wildly in love or pissed out of her mind she could n't do it . |
| 10 | She could n't do it . |
| 11 | But she could n't do it , could n't turn away from him now when she so desperately needed the reassuring warmth and strength of his embrace . |
| 12 | A tiny part of her wanted to confront him with what he 'd done ; yet she knew she could n't do it , could n't bear looking into his sea-blue eyes , or at the lips which had kissed her so tenderly the night before , only to laugh with Marianne today as he shared with her the secrets Shannon had confided so trustingly — so blindly ! |
| 13 | She felt she could n't do it again and she was n't about to crawl back to tell Ned Clarke so and have him volunteer Glyn for the job . |
| 14 | It would be like amputating part of herself , and she knew suddenly , and quite clearly , that she could n't do it . |
| 15 | She could n't do it . |
| 16 | Supposing she could n't do it ? |
| 17 | But she could n't do it . ’ |
| 18 | The simplest answer was to tell the truth , but , as Lori had known , she could n't do it . |
| 19 | Unless , like Chris Patten , she needed you for what she could n't do herself ( write a decent speech ) , any wet , however bright , was kippered on the back benches . |
| 20 | It seemed as if she could n't do anything right and everyone grumbled at her . |
| 21 | And she could n't do anything about Castelfonte , she could n't even get them to attempt making it profitable — she never understood about the land , that was n't in her blood . |
| 22 | She could n't do anything about it . |
| 23 | It was hard to believe that this was actually happening ; harder still to accept that she could n't do anything about it . |
| 24 | ‘ What ? ’ she gasped , so shocked at what he was saying that for a moment she could n't do anything other than stare at him with her mouth open . |
| 25 | Appalled at her own illogical fear , she could n't do anything to suppress it . |
| 26 | Very well , dictated that part of her that was against gloom and pushed her again towards the positive , since it was decided that she could n't do anything that day about the one major problem — her car — how about tackling her other major problem — that interview ? |
| 27 | But , since she could n't do anything about the car situation until that wretched part had been delivered , should n't she concentrate her worries on what she could do something about ? |
| 28 | No , Zoe agreed , she could n't do anything about that . |
| 29 | and then he charged it and er she if , she know , she could n't do anything but pay him |
| 30 | She said she could n't even get out of bed , she could n't do anything . |