Example sentences of "she knew that [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fran closed her eyes , willing the frantic pounding of her pulse to slow , but when his fingers completed their slow journey and came to rest at the base of her neck she knew that he could feel every frantic beat . |
| 2 | He did n't seem to know what it was himself , but she knew that it could n't be love , and if it was n't love then none of the other possibilities mattered . |
| 3 | She knew that she could not do it alone . |
| 4 | Again she saw Gazzer in her mind , laughing with Bella , clowning around , never taking anything seriously and she knew that she could never find the right words to convince Bella that he was dangerous . |
| 5 | She knew that she could put economic pressure on her neighbours to build up a bloc of states aligned to herself . |
| 6 | Constance wanted to run home but she knew that she could n't leave her bike . |
| 7 | ‘ From the baptism of fire she had got from the press she knew that she could handle the role too . |
| 8 | as though there had never been another world , and when a boy she knew , who lived in Doncaster , asked if he could come over and take her out , she refused him , although she liked him , because she knew that she could not bear to allow herself to emerge . |
| 9 | It may sound priggish , but she says it 's unwise to go against one 's nature , its fundamental requirements , she knew that she could only make a go of it , a real go — and that was what she wanted — with some very extraordinary kind of man , and she had n't met him yet . |
| 10 | In the past , when she felt depressed , she knew that she could always rely on her grandmother to lift her spirits . |
| 11 | She had seldom lied to her friend , but she knew that she could have described to her a proletarian custom whereby retired coalmen ate live eel-worms and not have been disbelieved . |
| 12 | In many ways the life of a great political hostess was very attractive to her , which only made her feel more guilty , but she knew that she could not tolerate a life of subordination and absolute dependency . |
| 13 | However , she knew that she could n't stand at the window indefinitely , so she left it to complete the task she had on hand . |