Example sentences of "but she could not [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried very hard to climb up the table leg , but she could not do it . |
| 2 | But she could not make herself care . |
| 3 | But she could not make herself give up . |
| 4 | But she could not tell him her real reason for trying to dissuade him . |
| 5 | She could not tell him about Havvie ; neither could she speak the lie to him , not to Dr Neil , but she could not tell him the truth , for that would mean telling him who she was , and she could not tell him that , not here , not now ; it would spoil everything between them if he knew that she was the spoiled and pampered American Princess . |
| 6 | Damned tears , she thought angrily , but she could not stop them . |
| 7 | It was wrong to do it , she knew , but she could not stop herself . |
| 8 | The triteness and immaturity of her own words and attitudes embarrassed Lee but she could not withhold what streamed out . |
| 9 | Ianthe opened her mouth to speak but she could not bring herself to explain that these were her own Christmas presents . |
| 10 | But she could not hold him off ! |
| 11 | There was something wrong about her scheme but she could not clarify what it was . |
| 12 | As she ran along the track to the road , she had an eerie sense that she was acting out something she had done before , but she could not pin it down until she reached the road and turned right , towards the village . |
| 13 | But she could not lose her anxiety and , finding a guilty conscience the very devil to live with , she returned to her hotel hoping that she would never again be called upon to impersonate her sister . |
| 14 | She washed and scrubbed , but she could not get it off . |
| 15 | William shouted something to Grace but she could not hear him — the sounds of the wind and the sea were too loud , too terrible . |
| 16 | But she could not visualise his face clearly . |
| 17 | Alice looked all around her at the flowers and the trees , but she could not see anything to eat . |
| 18 | But she could not see it as such and indeed it could be said , on her behalf , that not a single object had been purchased or positioned for its decorative value . |
| 19 | That was a slight exaggeration , but she could not resist it . |
| 20 | But she could not put it off forever . |
| 21 | As the divisional YC chairman she had views on the ozone layer , the council tax and Michael Heseltine ( ‘ He 's disloyal ’ ) , but she could not sustain them , and any attempt at talking politics inevitably ended in a fit of the giggles . |
| 22 | But she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 23 | Unhappy with the Steads , where she was beaten with a leather strap for wetting the bed , Ruth found a happier relationship with another family , but she could not rid herself of the insecurity . |
| 24 | Barney might experience flashes of impatience and anger , say and do things he would later regret , but she could not believe him capable of the blind , destructive hatred that had driven the knife into Angy 's throat . |
| 25 | But she could not remember anything at all about them . |
| 26 | It horrified her to hear her own voice screaming at her husband for his indolence but she could not help herself . |
| 27 | Thinking about Mike now was wrong , was disgusting , but she could not help herself . |
| 28 | She ought not to be going , but she could not help herself . |
| 29 | She had not wanted to talk to Finn but she could not help it when he came and sat on the counter . |
| 30 | She was very frightened and felt she was dying , irreversibly something was happening , there was a sort of imminence but she could not pinpoint it . |