Example sentences of "she could [vb infin] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her girlfriends , particularly her former flatmates , would have rallied round but she did not feel that she could inflict them with such a burden of responsibility . |
| 2 | She saved her curses until she could shout them into the night — then swallowed them anyway out of paranoia . |
| 3 | The Beastline were interested in all she could tell them of Tara and of the exiled Court . |
| 4 | Marie yelled after me to wait but I did n't want to talk to her about it so I chucked my sandwich-box over to her and told her she could eat them for me . |
| 5 | Julia could n't sleep because she could smell them in her room , so she came into my room to talk to me . |
| 6 | The officer said she believed she could link them to the offence . |
| 7 | With an effort , she drove from her mind the thought of the return journey , filling it instead with the experience of the moment , absorbing the sights , the impressions and sensations , storing them in her brain , wishing she had a notebook with her so that she could record them in all their vividness and immediacy . |
| 8 | She had bought some cigarettes for John and was wondering when she could give them to him . |
| 9 | I 'll put them in the bin then , ’ she replied , but before she could get them off the cart he handed us the balloons . |
| 10 | She could supply them with a few answers . |
| 11 | There was nothing for it but that she visit the company directors in person and see if she could persuade them of her determination to rebuild the business . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | Once aboard , she found she could let them off the leash . |