Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh cos Sal and at speech day she goes God she goes I could do with a good screw . |
| 2 | In the dream she was smiling , holding out her hands to the man and the children , but her smile slowly faded as she realised they could n't see her . |
| 3 | She realised he could provide her with some top-class partners and she has made the best of them . |
| 4 | She realised he could teach her a thing or two about reserve . |
| 5 | Once Phoebe had started playing chess regularly again she realised she could probably have become considerably better than him quite quickly , but she did not want that enough to work on it . |
| 6 | ‘ Once she realised she could n't move her head , she was literally sick from terror , ’ says Janet . |
| 7 | Nor did she think she could hide anything from this man with the golden eyes . |
| 8 | Nor , when their parents had already helped them more than enough with furniture and carpets and the like when they had first moved in , did she think she could take any more from them . |
| 9 | Nor did she think he could ever feel anything but shame for the way he treated them ; if he was now ready to pretend otherwise , it would only be that he saw some advantage in it . |
| 10 | If no one had been here for years , why did she fancy she could smell cigarette smoke ? |
| 11 | And she realized she could move again , slightly . |
| 12 | She says — she says she thinks she could get well again if children believed in fairies . |
| 13 | but she thinks there could be a lot of improvement around college like the mobiles they could be in better condition . |
| 14 | But even as she fumed she could see the sense in his ploy — nobody would be suspicious of his frequent presence in the nightclub if they thought he had something going with Rory . |
| 15 | No matter how she tried she could n't prevent the arm from flopping out on to the floor . |
| 16 | But no matter how much she tried she could not prevent the shift in perceptions towards her . |
| 17 | She could make up a story , say she suffered temporary amnesia , or that she was knocked unconscious by thieves and all her money was gone , but she doubted she could make it sound believable . |
| 18 | Isabel lay very still , her muscles so rigid with tension that she doubted she could have moved anyway . |
| 19 | And when her husband cracked another joke , she found she could laugh with the rest . |
| 20 | She had two children who only spoke Swedish , and she found she could n't learn the language . |
| 21 | She found she could get the attention and praise she wanted only by achieving , being good and caring for that pretty little monster she so resented . |
| 22 | But when , together , they had pulled shut the heavy door with its iron decorated bands , she found she could n't fit the key into the lock . |
| 23 | She found she could just catch a direct Finnair flight if she hurried . |
| 24 | And for those few hours after she got home she found she could talk to her mother properly for the first time in over two years . |
| 25 | She found she could n't tell him after all . |
| 26 | She found she could not look up at him . |
| 27 | She found she could sit at work in the Rose Bowl , her hands occupied as they were now , while in her head she relived the moments she had spent with Luke ; his hands caressing her ; his mouth on hers . |
| 28 | When it came to the front door , she found she could n't go in . |
| 29 | She found she could wave her arms as she ran . |
| 30 | Once aboard , she found she could let them off the leash . |