Example sentences of "[pron] could [not/n't] [vb infin] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't bear her look of hurt expectancy any more , so I tore myself away from her face and walked off . |
| 2 | I could n't bear her judgements , I did n't agree , I do n't agree , with her values . |
| 3 | I could n't tell her mine was n't a route she 'd stand much chance of following . |
| 4 | But I gave her a cold stare and fluffed my fur out ; I could n't have her thinking I was a pushover . |
| 5 | I could n't believe her reaction , she was totally stupefied . |
| 6 | She was lying almost abeam of us , and at first I could n't see her hull , but only a sort of thickening of the mist that turned out to be her mast . |
| 7 | I could n't see her face but I knew she was older than I was . |
| 8 | I could n't see her face very clearly now , but could sense how she 'd withdrawn from me . |
| 9 | Although I could n't see her face properly , her tongue was painting my image by numbers . |
| 10 | I could not bear her loss . |
| 11 | I could not understand her ideas but I had a feeling she might be right . |
| 12 | Sharon , that 's it , I could not get her name last night . |
| 13 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 14 | Athelstan just glared at her but still she could not control her mirth . |
| 15 | And though she recognized that some of it was rebellion at the hours of inactivity , she could not ignore her bladder . |
| 16 | And try as she might she could not detach her eyes from the object on the table that had so totally winded her . |
| 17 | Nicandra ran towards all that beauty — although she could not tell her trouble nor make any mention of the displeasing butterfly , she could be close in the adored distance . |
| 18 | She told herself that if she did not look up she would not need to see it and after a while this not-looking would become habitual , but in the event she could not prevent her eyes from turning up to the campanile . |
| 19 | She could not bear her aunt 's desperate face , nor her uncle 's increasing silence . |
| 20 | She could not hide her astonishment . |
| 21 | And when Mrs Stych returned , looking like a fat Christmas fairy and complaining that she could not fix her wings , he was able to pin them onto her dress without rancour and to tell a thoroughly bawdy joke , which made Hank explode with laughter and his wife look outraged . |
| 22 | And here she was , with Frank Grimwood of all people , shaking so much she could not fix her spectacles on her nose . |
| 23 | I guessed , as everyone else must have done , that at some point she could not manage her life any longer and had gone out and stepped into the stream as a way of escape . |
| 24 | She felt a sensation of floating , since the poison which had claimed her had blocked all physical feeling , and she could not move her head to see the men who were carrying her . |
| 25 | But in the evening , in her room , she could not finish her letter to him . |
| 26 | Owing to Amal 's seclusion as a female , she could not identify her attackers by name , only that they were acquaintances of her brother . |
| 27 | Zoë Rashid now accepted that she could not visit her mother before she flew out to Syria . |
| 28 | That feeling was strange , she resisted it , she knew that it was absurd as well as amoral , but in the end she told herself that she could not command her feelings : she was no longer able to torment herself with thoughts of their wars nor to enjoy their celebrations , because she was filled with the conviction that none of it was her concern . |
| 29 | LATE at night an elderly woman rang Christine Hall to say that she had refused much-needed hospital treatment because she could not leave her dog , Holly . |
| 30 | At first she could not open her eyes . |