Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [conj] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she had n't much of that , but more than before and she could think as she worked . |
| 2 | There was nothing she could say , nothing she could think because she felt nothing . |
| 3 | He could sense that she had travelled far as a vagrant and had seen much and that like him she was in some way returning home . |
| 4 | You know , in the past … ’ she trailed off , she could sense that she 'd better not squat on the bidet to wash between her legs in front of Miss Goldilocks . |
| 5 | For example , it could appear that She washed , and dressed the baby means that she washed ( herself ) and then she dressed the baby , while She washed and dressed the baby would seem to suggest that she washed the baby and also dressed it . |
| 6 | A very eccentric lady wandered in here one day asking , in response to this advert , if there was anything she could do and she said she was an artist . |
| 7 | Can you imagine the damage she could do if she repeated her allegations around the town ? ’ |
| 8 | He went forward , taking hold of Leith 's arm so that , there being nothing other she could do if she wanted to keep her dignity , she had to go forward too . |
| 9 | That was n't hard , because her mother worked at night , and Peg could do as she liked . |
| 10 | A misplaced need to prove to herself , and to Piers — even though he could n't care less — that she could do as she liked ? |
| 11 | There was nothing she could do until she reached the top . |
| 12 | Maura had never dreamt that she could feel like she felt at this moment . |
| 13 | Then she said I could look and she gave me a piece of cloth with a few coins in it which my mother had saved for me — and the ring . |
| 14 | And Dinda said she needed a filling , a re-filling actually and she said it 's the first that she 's been to a dentist that she could remember that she did n't notice the needle coming in , part she hates is the needle in the gum . |
| 15 | I decided to give her Arsenicum Album LM1 in a 100ml bottle and within 1 month she was feeling much better , her period had been the best she could remember and she 'd even been out to a party . |
| 16 | Well laid out , so far as Newman could see while she made the tea . |
| 17 | She took off her hat , and Miss D'Armande could see that she looked very tired and unhappy . |
| 18 | In the early morning light he could see that she wore a black cape over a dark red dress . |
| 19 | I did n't really understand what she was saying , but I could see that she despised me . |
| 20 | She could see that she had got to it at last . |
| 21 | But surely the woman could see that she had no future with Alex . |
| 22 | Looking back , she could see that she had married for all the wrong reasons . |
| 23 | The two men could see that she had been crying , that she was still extremely distressed . |
| 24 | But now as she stood looking at herself in a full length looking glass , she could see that she had indeed what the magazines described as the perfect figure , firm round breasts , a narrow flat waist , good hips , a small posterior , and long slender legs which were greatly enhanced by the silk stockings the assistant had carefully rolled on to them . |
| 25 | When she put them down , I could see that she had accepted the truth . |
| 26 | Carolyn could see that she had her right hand clasped around the fingers of her left , and was squeezing so tightly that the finger ends were white and bloodless . |
| 27 | But Ace could see that she did n't sound or look as totally convinced as her words . |
| 28 | She occasionally did style her hair that way and , since she had never so much as dreamt of meeting Ven when she 'd purchased her black dress , no one could suggest that she had bought it with him in mind . |
| 29 | For instance when in a dream she was conducted by me over a market garden in Aegina , one could guess that she had been reading Angus Wilson 's The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot , in which a market garden figures ; or when I dreamed of a detective novel by her , with a detective bearing her own name and very uncharacteristically dressed there were signs of my addiction to the detective novels of Gladys Mitchell . |
| 30 | A final significant point is that the Schuman Plan did not require British membership in order to succeed and could proceed whether she joined or not . |