Example sentences of "she could [verb] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | That she could abandon you — her four-year-old child — and never see you again ? |
| 2 | Yes , and Isabel must know , must surely remember it , Isabel who had had such a well-developed , careful , private system for the storing , ordering , labelling , arrangement and organisation of things , whose books were in a certain line , so that she could tell you at once , and without ever having to get up , what sat next to what and where Lewis and Short or Cassell 's French-English would be found , were she to consent to your borrowing them because you had lost your own . |
| 3 | And if she could tell you her mind privately some while ago , do you suppose she can not make it very plain to us in public today ? |
| 4 | I could n't understand how she could give you up , do n't you see ? |
| 5 | Well she could give you one of hers . |
| 6 | But she could surprise you with moments of sharpness . |
| 7 | She could kill you . ’ |
| 8 | You went with her because she could help you . |
| 9 | She could compromise you . |
| 10 | The first thing was to find a school for you three — for six months you had had no teaching , except what I could give you , and then kind Miss Budden , the headmistress at Auckland House school , Simla , said she could take you if I could come too and help her nurse about twenty children down with measles in the san. , because Matron was coping with some children with suspected diphtheria in another block . |
| 11 | ‘ A girl called Louise Stacey has been on to them , asking how she could contact you . |
| 12 | It meant that she could see you every day , work closely with you , even travel abroad with you . ’ |
| 13 | And then he gave orders to Punch for tea to be prepared and they had a terrible time finding any china that was n't cracked or broken and then she went on working in the pantry as quiet as a mouse and she could hear you both talking as clear as clear . |
| 14 | Spun me a good story about her husband , Malcolm , and how he 'd died , and she was going to stay with a friend in Birkleigh until she found a living-in job where she could keep you . |