Example sentences of "all she could " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all she could do , ’ Harriet , she says silently , what a betrayer you make me , immediately , ‘ all she could do was ask about the Royals , was Diana as beautiful as in Newsweek . ’ |
| 2 | And all she could do , ’ Harriet , she says silently , what a betrayer you make me , immediately , ‘ all she could do was ask about the Royals , was Diana as beautiful as in Newsweek . ’ |
| 3 | She tried joining her mind to the millions of people everywhere glued to screens for this all important match but all she could see was Colm 's pudgy little legs swinging backwards and forwards and the grim look on his face as she washed away the crusted blood . |
| 4 | Mrs Henry found out all she could about alternative cancer treatments and dabbled in some of them . |
| 5 | She wanted to be as mature and sensible as Rachel was , she wanted to be reassuring and maternal and all she could do was cling to Maggie and sob and sob . |
| 6 | The old mistake made in a bathroom in Oxford twenty years before had fixed her course and all she could do was to walk it . |
| 7 | She wished she could see Bella 's face properly , but the shadows were thick and all she could make out was the outline of a head . |
| 8 | All she could do was stand there , a passive witness . |
| 9 | She looked down it : all she could see was blackness . |
| 10 | Writing to Ellen , never her most sympathetic correspondent , was dreary work since all she could think of were frantic pleas to tell her of Oreste and she grew tired of begging long before she reached the end of the first sheet . |
| 11 | All she could not share was Mrs Browning 's other intense fever , her other passion . |
| 12 | She reported a general response as good as on the Arsenicum , went on holiday and had to come home from it because her period was again heavy and all she could do was lie down ! |
| 13 | All she could smell now was the clean salty tang of the sea . |
| 14 | Maggie stared out of the nearest window , but all she could see was . |
| 15 | All she could do was raise her voice higher , the train was coming in now , and she screamed at the child , screamed at him Come on , Johnny , fucking come on . |
| 16 | All she could mutter was , ‘ Bruce , if I had n't seen it with my own eyes , I would never have believed it . ’ |
| 17 | He had decided to give up , had , indeed , spent several hours trying to think of one thing he actually liked about Elinor when , two days before the funeral , she looked up from a quiche Lorraine ( 'Billykins says it 's about all she could face ’ ) and barked : ‘ What are we going to drink ? ’ |
| 18 | And all she could repeat was what she had said to the ambulance men . |
| 19 | The air was cold on stage , the little orchestra seemed to be down a mine and all she could see was a very small bald head and a very long baton . |
| 20 | There , she was high up above the woods , but instead of being able to see all that was going on below for miles around , as she had expected , all she could see was — leaves ! |
| 21 | At the time of her conversion , she was sometimes ecstatic with love ; on one occasion she returned home , and was so on fire with love which God had manifested to her that all she could utter was : ‘ O Love , can it be that thou hast called me with so much love , and revealed to me , at one view , what no tongue can describe ? ’ — Von Hugel . |
| 22 | When Yvonne joined my classes she was suffering from tense shoulders and migraines which were very frequent and so intense that all she could do was to lie down while the attacks were present . |
| 23 | As he prodded around all the dreamy romantic feelings she experienced when he kissed her disappeared and all she could think of was when would he stop , and could n't he please just hold her again , very close , with the firm bulge of his body against her , far more erotic through several layers of clothes than his scratching , poking finger . |
| 24 | Edward was still kissing her , his tongue circling inside her mouth , but all she could think about was this new sensation between her legs , a little like the way she felt when they danced , but even better . |
| 25 | There was no way … no way at all she could prevent him being discovered . |
| 26 | ‘ All she could remember was waking up in a shower with him four hours after drinking with him . |
| 27 | ‘ All she could remember was waking up in a shower with him , four hours after drinking with him . ’ |
| 28 | All she could do now was to rely on Ethel being merciful ( which was not one of Ethel 's main qualities ) . |
| 29 | ‘ The Countess did all she could for me , arranging for me to have the baby away from the Castle , because of gossip in the servants ’ hall , and afterwards she took me back into service . |
| 30 | Yet all she could keep saying was , ‘ Have you got on to Miss Maynard ? |