Example sentences of "she could [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paula and Louise were looking lovely too — Paula in a little white top with a boat shaped neck and a bright turquoise circular skirt , Louise in a figure hugging number which left none of her curves to the imagination — but for the first time in her life Sally felt she could compete with them on equal terms . |
| 2 | The Cutty Sark was launched in 1869 and was built for speed so that she could compete with other clipper ships in the China tea trade . |
| 3 | That was the only way she could exist with men in a man 's world . |
| 4 | To her mind , Lucy looked like she could do with a huge warm hug . |
| 5 | ‘ She could do with a bit of growing up , ’ observed Davyd , the shrewd Welsh gardener . |
| 6 | She could do with the extra money . ’ |
| 7 | She could do with being able to sew for her own sake . |
| 8 | " I said she could do with more help . " |
| 9 | The girl looked as if she could do with a fairy godmother , or perhaps just a mother . |
| 10 | Herta sometimes looks as though she could do with the odd impotent interlude . |
| 11 | Sarah answered the door ; she wore a shabby blue woollen dress , her grey hair straggled and she looked as though she could do with a wash . |
| 12 | Elsie , spooning black tea into the fat pot her father preferred , said , ‘ She could do with company . |
| 13 | She could do with a glimpse into the future right now , she decided grimly , particularly since it seemed her irritating companion was intent on being obstructive , despite his apparent change of attitude . |
| 14 | ‘ She looks as though she could do with more agreeable company — such as myself . ’ |
| 15 | ’ She could do with more responsibility . ’ |
| 16 | She still felt a bit wobbly on her legs and she knew too that she could do with a holiday . |
| 17 | ‘ She 's a bit pale , poor child ; she could do with some fresh air . ’ |
| 18 | On the holiday side of it — well , from her point of view she could do with a respite from thinking about that interview . |
| 19 | Coun Fishwick said there was not a lot she could do with the proclamation , adding it was county council business anyway . |
| 20 | Yeah , well she could do with something . |
| 21 | She could do with being taken down to the tennis courts probably and have a knock up . |
| 22 | But perhaps she could do with some mental help . |
| 23 | They had lived in London for many years and Ilsa drifted to the Polish cafes and Hungarian tea-rooms where she could talk with other emigres and drink Viennese coffee in fluted glasses . |
| 24 | but the top she could wear with like , she 's got , well it 's only cotton you see , shorts are only cotton |
| 25 | We soon discovered , not surprisingly , that she could cope with a curry far hotter than we could eat . |
| 26 | Motherhood was more than she could cope with . |
| 27 | She was n't at all sure she could cope with him and a band of strangers , all the way to Titan , through the depths of hyperspace where there 's no escape from your companions . |
| 28 | She had been afraid that his suggestion , when it came , would have been too fraught with the unknown his room , perhaps , or else , God knows , a naked nightclub but as for the cinema , she could cope with that . |
| 29 | I asked my neighbour to turn down her records as I found it impossible to concentrate and she said the only way she could cope with the stress of her reality was to blast her music . |
| 30 | She 'd thought she could cope with her fears . |