Example sentences of "[Wh adv] she could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever she could afford it Nina tried to buy one of his drawings , but most of the artists thought he was simply a nuisance and told her she was wasting her money . |
| 2 | Again , while Nicholas was having breakfast he kept getting down from his place , and his mother followed him round with a bowl of cereal , feeding him with a spoonful whenever she could . |
| 3 | The daughter of a sea-NYMPH and HELIOS the sun god , Circe was a powerful sorceress who despised men and would poison and trick them whenever she could . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , she says that whenever she could persuade her scribe to let her dictate to him , ‘ she was hale and whole suddenly in a manner ’ . |
| 5 | Normally all she did was belittle Artemis 's riding skills whenever she could . |
| 6 | She had already fallen into sin by meeting Andrew in remote places whenever she could . |
| 7 | But family life and obligations were not to her liking , and she left home whenever she could afford to do so . |
| 8 | Although she snatched a moment whenever she could to telephone her much missed family , ‘ you could feel her disappointments , her lack of freedom . |
| 9 | She also had an irresistible urge to deceive Wakelate and get away with it whenever she could , even though such deceptions were very easy to accomplish . |
| 10 | So she stayed in her parents ' home during the winter , helping to look after the children , making clothes for them and earning a little money whenever she could . |
| 11 | She was n't too busy , however , to notice that Marianne kept her promise , monopolising Dane whenever she could , finding countless reasons to draw him away from whatever he was doing . |
| 12 | She stayed at home and looked after her children doing some part-time work whenever she could . |
| 13 | Morag liked to visit them whenever she could and Granny and Grandad were always pleased to see her . |
| 14 | From what they said , she had shrunk into a shell from the moment she had got on board , going off by herself whenever she could . |
| 15 | She had made trouble whenever she could , stealing her boyfriends by telling downright lies . |
| 16 | Now that Cara was married , she and Barney lived in London , but Cara came back to Hawk Lacey whenever she could . |
| 17 | Felicity , wise in her generation , was leaving herself a loophole whereby she could escape . |
| 18 | ‘ Mm , ’ she said , wordless at how she could n't spit out that furious NO ! |
| 19 | She gave her paper and coloured crayons and showed her how she could draw . |
| 20 | There had never been any doubt in her mind that she would look after her parents in their old age : they had given up a lot for her , she said , and that was how she could repay them . |
| 21 | He would never understand how she could memorize all those complex , impossibly long poems , yet forget the words of a simple song she must have heard a thousand times or more . |
| 22 | And they grew when she told in another interview how she could live on prawns , salad and water , and found eating ‘ a drag ’ . |
| 23 | But anyone who could understand English and had watched the last Liberal broadcast , an exercise in pure Paddiography , would know perfectly well how she could say that . |
| 24 | Strange how she could think about Jenny now without feeling so sick . |
| 25 | With this rubbish tip of information she then came to me to ask how she could write it up into a dissertation . |
| 26 | She was longing for a drink — some of her emergency ration of scotch — but she did not see how she could have one herself without also offering one to her visitor , something she had no intention of doing . |
| 27 | She sat in a corner of the playroom , dressed in the brown serge dress and white apron she had been given , and tried to think how she could run away . |
| 28 | Her face was blank , and Meryl found herself wondering how she could ever have imagined that they had some kind of common bond , women in medicine , friendship . |
| 29 | He stood up and lumbered towards the tail end of the queue ; she trailed behind slowly , wondering how she could leave on her own without offending him . |
| 30 | Her nanny , though , was once stopped in the street by someone demanding to know how she could possibly have a child by a black man . |