Example sentences of "she could [vb infin] [indef pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Come in , ’ she invited , for she could do nothing else . |
| 2 | The way she saw it , she could do nothing else , but inwardly she was boiling with fury . |
| 3 | That , she knew full well , she could do nothing about , although she disapproved of the whole set-up . |
| 4 | In a minute she would say she wanted to talk about Oliver and they would go somewhere quiet , where she could explain everything slowly , from the beginning . |
| 5 | I work in Chipping Norton at the Presbytery and erm it just amazed me that she could tell someone not to smoke . |
| 6 | At her worst — which is to say , when her performances , all crust and no bread , seemed little more than a rash of mannerisms — she could strike one as impossibly tic-ridden and implausible . |
| 7 | She could sort anything out when she was better . |
| 8 | Mrs Beattie , on the other hand was a free spirit by comparison but even she was conditioned by her class and her religion — she could give nothing away for nothing . |
| 9 | Gabriel irritated him by the way she could get something nearly right but not quite . |
| 10 | Yanto had told her to give the small salmon to Sid , providing he coughed up the twenty quid , but Mary decided she could get something out of it herself , especially after that uncomfortable bicycle ride . |
| 11 | She looked up at him and before she could say anything else he had kissed her . |
| 12 | His eyes looked so unhappy that she could hardly bear it , but before she could say anything more he had plunged on : ‘ It must have been obvious and I 'm sorry for that too . |
| 13 | But before she could say anything further Ross — who had remained silent so far — took a quick step forward and gathered her into his arms . |
| 14 | She could see nothing out of the window to show there had been a fire . |
| 15 | She could see one now , hurrying through the herb garden to the little hut where they worked . |
| 16 | The trouble was , she could prove nothing yet and certainly did n't want her Service approaching Magill direct , for confirmation . |
| 17 | Travis asked before she could reveal anything else about her Dorset connections . |