Example sentences of "could not [verb] her [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | And here she was , with Frank Grimwood of all people , shaking so much she could not fix her spectacles on her nose . |
| 4 | He could not distinguish her words but she sounded harassed and tense . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | McAllister could not prevent her eyes from straying to his newspaper . |
| 9 | At first she could not open her eyes . |
| 10 | And try as she might she could not detach her eyes from the object on the table that had so totally winded her . |
| 11 | In the darkness , Cardiff could not see her lips moving , and almost shouted back at her : It 's your brother ! |
| 12 | With her back against the sun , her face was shadowed so that he could not see her eyes . |
| 13 | In a letter to Robson she described their rekindled passion , feeling only slightly aggrieved that she could not put her arms around him ( presumably they go straight through ) . |
| 14 | Ruth could not take her eyes off him . |
| 15 | He continued to look at her and she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 16 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 17 | But she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 18 | She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff . |
| 19 | Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare . |
| 20 | But she found that she could not tear her eyes away from him . |
| 21 | For a moment Lisa could not tear her eyes away . |
| 22 | I could not understand her ideas but I had a feeling she might be right . |
| 23 | The bodies were found on Wednesday after the couple 's daughter , Cathleen Mustow , alerted police because she could not contact her parents . |
| 24 | A member of the Women 's Cooperative Guild remembered working as a nursemaid to a doctor 's family at the age of nine in 1867 , and being unable to read or write , could not let her parents know about the unkind treatment she received . |
| 25 | She was a baby , and , in any case , he could not believe her feelings went very deep . |
| 26 | She could not believe her eyes when she saw the Tillers being marched off in the crocodile line to the English Girls ' Club after rehearsals . |
| 27 | She had stood a moment , a long pause ; at first ( her suitcase , the littered money ) she could not believe her eyes . |
| 28 | Mademoiselle stared at the enormous thing as if she really could not believe her eyes , she gave a shriek even louder than Mary-Lou had given . |
| 29 | As she turned to greet the father with his offspring , the midwife could not believe her ears : ‘ Place it on the fire , ’ he commanded . |
| 30 | Shiona could not believe her ears . |