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 | By an effort of memory she could just recall a time when money had been plentiful , and her father — then strong and well — had spent it with a gay extravagance which had delighted her as a small child . |
| 8 | She could still get a phone call telling her sh telling her no , that 's the other thing . |
| 9 | He had to admit that she could still ride a lot better than he could . |
| 10 | Julia 's bedroom was now the heart of the house with the family spending every possible moment with her , and although her face was almost fleshless she could always manage a smile to greet them . |
| 11 | She could always find a reason to stop Conradin enjoying himself . |
| 12 | She caught worldwide attention last year when she claimed in a defence of prostitution charges that she could only satisfy a sex addiction by selling herself to the long line of men . |
| 13 | It may sound priggish , but she says it 's unwise to go against one 's nature , its fundamental requirements , she knew that she could only make a go of it , a real go — and that was what she wanted — with some very extraordinary kind of man , and she had n't met him yet . |
| 14 | Alice looked all round the table , but she could only see a teapot . |
| 15 | She might have found him attractive , but there was no way in the world she could ever give a damn about a man who was as dishonest and as hard-hearted as he was ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She found Clelia 's company extraordinarily entertaining , and bracing only in so far as she liked to be braced : she could hardly follow a word , for instance , of the art references in her conversation , but Clelia managed somehow to combine a great air of erudition and abstruseness with a marked facility for making explanations , so that ignorance was no bar to amusement . |