Example sentences of "she could [vb infin] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could guess roughly what he was promising but let him keep his secret . |
| 2 | In the dark she could ignore how he repelled her in the light . |
| 3 | By her contracts or her torts she could bind only her separate property . |
| 4 | She could n't swim , so that left her with only two options : she could stay where she was and wait for whoever was lurking there to reach out of the darkness — but with her nature that was unthinkable — or she could run the gauntlet . |
| 5 | There was no rain in the darkness , and she could make even its sound go away by concentrating hard for a few moments . |
| 6 | My friend had wanted specifically to talk to a specialist , so she could make up her own mind about surgery . |
| 7 | She could make up her own mind about him without any help from hard-faced blondes , thank you . |
| 8 | She could make out nothing in the darkness at the beginning except a jumble of bric-a-brac and the outline of a colossal eagle crucified on one wall . |
| 9 | Through the haze of half-closed eyes she could make out his face hovering darkly over her . |
| 10 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 11 | She said that she could start whenever they needed her ; tomorrow , if they wanted . |
| 12 | But she could sense when he was getting her ready for a match and stood like a statue , even dropping her head for him to clip her mane . |
| 13 | She could sense how his body moved towards her subtly ; how , with the utmost casualness , he strove at each moment to include her in all that was said . |
| 14 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 15 | She then had to visualize walking slowly towards them , knowing that she could stop whenever she wanted to so that she did not feel that she was being compelled to go near these birds . |
| 16 | That way she could speed up her thinking . |
| 17 | She could turn neither her head , nor her neck to look at us . |
| 18 | She sat next to him so that she could cut up his food and discreetly help his wavering hand shove it into his mouth . |
| 19 | After the New Year , she could no more give him up now than she could cut off her own hands . |
| 20 | Perhaps she could ask when she got home . |
| 21 | She told Anne that she could understand how she felt as John had been born when his father was in France during the First World War . |
| 22 | Before she could get up he was skiing towards her , sliding to an expert halt at her side . |
| 23 | A prostitute caught Graham 's eye but he shook his head before she could get off her bar stool . |
| 24 | She stood up , her eyes burning , and began walking steadily towards the water , but before she could get there she felt his hand in her hair and he pulled her to face him . |
| 25 | Funnily enough , she could remember when she first heard that name . |
| 26 | It might have continued like this indefinitely if I had n't picked up a copy of the Kensington News , a paper Daphne took so she could find out what was showing at the local picture house . |
| 27 | With the movement of a finger she could find out who was in there . |
| 28 | She could find only her chequebook and the small , leather-bound directory Jasper had given her for Christmas and into which , to gratify the child , she had painstakingly copied the addresses and phone numbers of friends accumulated throughout a lifetime . |
| 29 | He had been instrumental in getting Volkov released so she could take up her appointment in Geneva . |
| 30 | A little fat nun had once cried in the heat of Egypt 's afternoon , in the accents of County Cork , that she wished she could take off her flesh and sit by the well in her bones . |