Example sentences of "to [pron] she could " in BNC.
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| 1 | For her part , she felt that he was someone to whom she could open her heart and who would understand . |
| 2 | She began to feel foolish but she had to talk to somebody and Miss Hatherby was the only person to whom she could turn . |
| 3 | Years later her increasing helplessness was causing unhappiness at home , yet there was still no one to whom she could turn : her parents had died ; her children had left her ; her sister was in Canada ; the family doctors and hospital doctors were uninterested ; and , apart from arranging adaptations to her house , social services were too overworked to be accessible . |
| 4 | There was no-one to whom she could confide , ‘ I 'm afraid of my husband 's affection for his daughter … my daughter . ’ |
| 5 | Faced with this , Amy had seemed to abandon her frivolous society friends — or had been abandoned by them — and turned to someone she could trust . |
| 6 | Nathan was talking to someone she could n't see . |
| 7 | Premack 's plastic tokens which Sarah , his only real success , was required to arrange in series on the magnetised slate , were designed to discover the extent to which she could make judgements about the qualities of objects ; for example , ‘ the apple is red and round ’ . |
| 8 | She let us stay with her for a week after Dada — ’ She paused , and again her hesitation appeared as if her mind were groping for an answer or a revelation to something she could n't understand ; then she said , ‘ After Dada … died . |
| 9 | If Gina was pleasant to him she could share ; if not , he would make them last for two meals . |
| 10 | It 's obviously never occurred to her she could be barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 11 | When he spoke to her she could scarcely hear what he said for the thudding of her lovesick heart and the chattering of her teeth . |
| 12 | On the other hand , if he really had anything constructive to say to her she could n't allow phantom fears to deny her the opportunity of listening to him . |
| 13 | She had meant to confide that she , too , was a seduced woman ; yet when it came to it she could n't find the correct words . |
| 14 | There was a limit to what she could make out , given the angle and that she was trying to see the page upside-down , but what she saw was enough to confirm that this book , or perhaps its predecessor for the previous year , had the potential to tell her exactly what she most needed to know . |
| 15 | This situation , coupled with the insuperable physical difficulties of governing a huge , thinly populated empire , set inescapable limits to what she could hope to achieve . |