Example sentences of "[conj] she could give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robbie could n't tell what he was thinking , but her mind was only on the goal ahead , some private spot where their lovemaking could be renewed , where she could give herself up to him and all the promised delights his body offered hers . |
| 2 | She could put him into the scale alongside Joseph and Tarquin Poulteney-Crosse whom she believed culpable of murder , or she could give him the benefit of the doubt . |
| 3 | Now she thought that she could give it up for three weeks in the Italian sun . |
| 4 | Fen opened the bedroom door and she waited tensely for him to close it behind him and be gone , so that she could give vent to the misery that threatened to swamp her . |
| 5 | Lionel had mentioned her only once : ‘ Florence , Flora rather — we had to be careful not to ask of her more than she could give — ’ and had left Lily to puzzle out the meaning . |
| 6 | Into Lucy 's keeping , so she could give it to him and with it , he could challenge the system that had tormented him and millions of the innocent . |
| 7 | There was nothing she could do about that , but she could give the ring back and that would show what she thought of him ! |
| 8 | ‘ The one about absence making the heart grow fonder of the girl next door , ’ Lucy quipped , the words slipping out before she could give them sufficient consideration . |