Example sentences of "she could [verb] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told herself that the best thing she could do would be to go out of the house and climb up to where the buzzards and the ravens nested on the clifftop , but she did n't pay herself much attention . |
| 2 | And nothing she could think could raise her arm |
| 3 | But all the will-power she could muster could not shut out the desolate sense of emptiness that had closed like a cold hand round her heart . |
| 4 | She knew that nothing she could say would change his mind . |
| 5 | She would not return to you because you believed her to be a fallen woman , and nothing she could say would convince you otherwise . ’ |