Example sentences of "[pers pn] that she could " in BNC.
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| 1 | She once told me that she could never commit suicide because of her curiosity about what was going to happen next . |
| 2 | The Queen became so fond of me that she could not eat without me . |
| 3 | She told me that she could n't be happy until she 'd given birth and , in the course of time , I began to understand what she meant . |
| 4 | I work in Chipping Norton at the Presbytery and erm it just amazed me that she could tell someone not to smoke . |
| 5 | She raged silently all the way back to the cottage , but it was only when the front door closed behind them that she could trust herself enough to speak . |
| 6 | His eyes met hers , dark and secret with a light behind them that she could not fail to see . |
| 7 | ‘ She is so like you that she could be your twin ! ’ ’ |
| 8 | If Philip Leapor had earlier been hostile to his daughter 's poetry fearing it was unprofitable but then left her at liberty , it was probably because she had convinced him that she could earn money with her pen . |
| 9 | She told him that she could have stayed onstage for hours , that it had been he most exhilarating experience of her life . |
| 10 | She ran to meet him , weak with relief , but he was very vague as to why he was late and there was a remoteness about him that she could not penetrate . |
| 11 | Wild and feverish with excitement , she sat down immediately to write to Boldwood , to inform him that she could not marry him . |
| 12 | Meredith was determined to show him that she could do without arrogant bankers who 'd heard half a story and jumped to the wrong conclusions . |
| 13 | There was such comfort , such happiness with him that she could only sigh with pleasure . |
| 14 | She was crushed so tight against him that she could barely breathe , and as his own mouth moved to her ear , his tongue flicking erotically to trace the whorls , she moved her hands to his belt . |
| 15 | She was so powerfully aware of him that she could feel the ripples of panic beginning to spread . |
| 16 | Her lawyer had advised her that she could , by agreement with Angela , break the trust . |
| 17 | Mrs Thatcher finally decided to go when her Cabinet colleagues told her that she could not win through . |
| 18 | Having made sure from Miss Miggs that she would n't mind if the mistletoe in her apple-tree were sold , especially as it had never occurred to her that she could sell it , three excited Brownies hurried away from Sundial Cottage and did n't pause until they reached Anne 's father 's greengrocery shop . |
| 19 | However he assured her that she could control the pain and all she had to do to achieve this was to look at a certain corner of the ward ceiling and the pain would go . |
| 20 | After about thirty seconds , I told her that she could switch the light on once more and make her way out of the cupboard and back to the hall . |
| 21 | It shocked her that she could make such a cool analysis of the situation . |
| 22 | They told her that she could n't have her own flat until she was eighteen . |
| 23 | I suggested to her that she could sit on it . |
| 24 | It sickened her that she could have made love with Tom and be able to remember nothing of it . |
| 25 | Excitement had for days so filled her that she could not sleep , and now at last she had embarked upon it ; thoughts of loss and martyrdom paled before the facts . |
| 26 | She was afraid then , rather as a skier might feel when he looks down the steep whiteness of a dangerous slope , or a high diver who seems far above the water , but the sensation was so unusual to her that she could n't be sure that it was entirely unpleasant still strongly mixed , as it was , with curiosity . |
| 27 | It came to her that she could tell where the walls stopped being her skin only because the blue shaded down a spectrum from azure to sapphire . |
| 28 | She said nothing , but the cold sadistic look in the eyes of the SS women told her that she could expect no mercy . |
| 29 | Her dress sense was faultless and Félix had taught her that she could wear eye-catching colours that she would n't have thought of choosing for herself . |
| 30 | Dalgliesh thanked her and told her that she could go home as soon as she had checked with Detective-Sergeant Reynolds in the library that he had all the necessary information about where she had spent the previous evening . |