Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [vb infin] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owing to Amal 's seclusion as a female , she could not identify her attackers by name , only that they were acquaintances of her brother . |
| 2 | Jack Carey , an old friend of the family , had wanted to marry Susan years ago ; but she , of course , could not leave her father . |
| 3 | LATE at night an elderly woman rang Christine Hall to say that she had refused much-needed hospital treatment because she could not leave her dog , Holly . |
| 4 | It was symptomatic rather than part of the train of thought that led to his decision : Britain , as a great power , could not leave her security in the hands of the Americans , who , however friendly , could veer so unpredictably from generous international collaboration to self-centred isolationism . |
| 5 | But in the evening , in her room , she could not finish her letter to him . |
| 6 | And when Mrs Stych returned , looking like a fat Christmas fairy and complaining that she could not fix her wings , he was able to pin them onto her dress without rancour and to tell a thoroughly bawdy joke , which made Hank explode with laughter and his wife look outraged . |
| 7 | And here she was , with Frank Grimwood of all people , shaking so much she could not fix her spectacles on her nose . |
| 8 | Zoë Rashid now accepted that she could not visit her mother before she flew out to Syria . |
| 9 | On the substantive application W. , who had attained the age of 16 , exercised her right to separate representation and resisted the application on the ground that section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969conferred on her the same right as an adult to refuse medical treatment so that the court could not override her decision . |
| 10 | He could not distinguish her words but she sounded harassed and tense . |
| 11 | The hall light was still on and he put his ear to the letter box ; he could hear her voice on the telephone but could not distinguish her words . |
| 12 | She had experienced mounting terror at the thought of a new role in which she would certainly prove a failure — a woman who could not do her work , could not save her father , could not love her mother , could not satisfy her man , was most unlikely to make any sort of mother . |
| 13 | From a traditional Labour background , my mother rejected the politics of solidarity and communality , always voted Conservative , for the left could not embody her desire for things to be really fair , for a full skirt that took twenty yards of cloth , for a half-timbered cottage in the country , for the prince who did not come . |
| 14 | She could not build her life on another 's pain , or on Havvie 's lies . |
| 15 | She had experienced mounting terror at the thought of a new role in which she would certainly prove a failure — a woman who could not do her work , could not save her father , could not love her mother , could not satisfy her man , was most unlikely to make any sort of mother . |
| 16 | She felt a sensation of floating , since the poison which had claimed her had blocked all physical feeling , and she could not move her head to see the men who were carrying her . |
| 17 | That feeling was strange , she resisted it , she knew that it was absurd as well as amoral , but in the end she told herself that she could not command her feelings : she was no longer able to torment herself with thoughts of their wars nor to enjoy their celebrations , because she was filled with the conviction that none of it was her concern . |
| 18 | She could not bear her aunt 's desperate face , nor her uncle 's increasing silence . |
| 19 | I could not bear her loss . |
| 20 | ‘ No , Robbie , ’ he spoke the words between kisses that could not slake her need and as she gave a little whimper of protest . |
| 21 | She told herself that if she did not look up she would not need to see it and after a while this not-looking would become habitual , but in the event she could not prevent her eyes from turning up to the campanile . |
| 22 | McAllister could not prevent her eyes from straying to his newspaper . |
| 23 | She could not hide her astonishment . |
| 24 | The Queen agreed , and Glumdalclitch could not hide her happiness . |
| 25 | There are other considerations too in cases of rape and incest where the female could not exercise her choice not to conceive . |
| 26 | Nicandra ran towards all that beauty — although she could not tell her trouble nor make any mention of the displeasing butterfly , she could be close in the adored distance . |
| 27 | She could not clear her head of him , however much she told herself that he was a bastard . |
| 28 | At first she could not open her eyes . |
| 29 | I guessed , as everyone else must have done , that at some point she could not manage her life any longer and had gone out and stepped into the stream as a way of escape . |
| 30 | She had experienced mounting terror at the thought of a new role in which she would certainly prove a failure — a woman who could not do her work , could not save her father , could not love her mother , could not satisfy her man , was most unlikely to make any sort of mother . |