Example sentences of "she could [adv] [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could even see a thrush pecking out a scarlet yew berry , swallowing the scarlet flesh and spitting out the poisonous pip . |
| 2 | She could even put a name to his American fiancée . |
| 3 | In this way she developed her instinctive talent as a fashion editor ; she could instantly take a detail from this and an idea from that , while keeping well within her overall style . |
| 4 | Theda was so appalled that she could barely repress a shudder , never mind summon up a smile . |
| 5 | So strange , she sometimes thought , to have all this engineering knowledge in three languages and still be so unable to apply a single word of it that she could scarcely change a plug without helpful diagrams . |
| 6 | It was pitch black ; she could scarcely see a hand in front of her . |
| 7 | She thought it dry , and it was , but she could not make a dent in the downpour itself . |
| 8 | Eventually she found them but could n't get near — the crowds were as dense further up and , push as she might , she could not make a parting for herself . |
| 9 | That , and the discovery that she could not bear a man near her in the early days after the rape ; so she had feigned an illness , explained as the consequence of her breaking her engagement with Havvie , which , of course , had caused an immense furore inside and outside of society , and Mama and Papa had put off their visit to England , and sent her loving letters , for she had written that she had discovered that she did not really love Havvie at all , had merely been beglamoured by his appearance , name and title . |
| 10 | She could not move a step . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | During the first days of that Holy Week Mrs Abigail continued to believe that she could not endure a marriage that was a travesty , and that she could no longer endure life in Dynmouth . |
| 13 | She was being blackmailed and , because of her promise to Travis never to breathe a word about the woman he truly did love , she could not do a thing about it . |
| 14 | She shook her head , pointed to the baby first and then to Sycorax as if her maternal cares in both their cases meant she could not stir a moment from their side . |
| 15 | She could not face a repetition of the morning session . |
| 16 | But she could not say a word as he went on in that same tone . |
| 17 | She could not restrain a flash of pride in her physical fitness ; all the nurses were smaller than she was and , although they were prettier , she felt her dignity and certainty returning . |
| 18 | However , she recently asked what it was all for if she could not have a child . |
| 19 | At the door she could not resist a parting shot . |
| 20 | She could not remember a storm as bad as this . |
| 21 | Mr Reid maintains he was refused the right to call witnesses on his behalf while Mrs Gerrie said she could not remember a request being made at the original hearing . |
| 22 | Just as Maggie could not remember a time before there was Fenna , and a time before there was the big house and the three women living in it , so she could not remember a time when there was not the constant tug of tension between her grandmother and her mother . |
| 23 | She could not get a grant or income support and had no option of going part time . |
| 24 | But because of the storm the hatches had been battened down and no matter how hard she searched she could not find a way out of the hold . |
| 25 | Beneath all the doubts , all the hurt , there still lingered something … something she could not put a finger on . |
| 26 | Although , despite her principles and her ingrained reluctance to compromise , she could not suppress a pang of gratitude even now — as she dished up her broth and herb dumplings for the candidate — that an attack of the low fever , caught as usual from terrible , tormented Mrs Rattrie who , this time , had died of it , had kept Luke in bed during that wild week last summer when the plugs had been drawn from Braithwaite 's boiler and all Luke 's brave young friends who had got into the habit of gathering to smoke their pipes and set the world to rights of an evening in her hen-run , had gone marching off to join their " brothers ' from across the Pennines . |
| 27 | She could not suppress a reddening of the face , though it was occasioned more by anger than discomfort . |
| 28 | But she could not help a resurgence of the queries raised in her mind at the hint of scandal in connection with his mother as she found herself in Mrs Alderley 's coach , being driven to Switham House . |
| 29 | If she could not provide a remedy for life 's major troubles , she accepted a way round . |
| 30 | Among other things I hit on the idea of writing down a very simple minuet , in order to see whether she could not compose a variation on it . |