Example sentences of "she could " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could see him through the shutters — a big man , a Berber , a kind-looking man with bright blue eyes and tattoos . |
| 2 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 3 | ONE of our bar staff recently came into the kitchen to ask if she could look in the soup kettle to see what colour the soup was . |
| 4 | In the early hours , she left with her husband Guy to drive back to Lourmarin so that she could open her restaurant in the morning . |
| 5 | She had spotted the cigarette smoke from afar and now she could see his feet protruding from under the canvas . |
| 6 | Peony looked suitably chastened , but there was a glint in her eye that told Peggy there was plenty more she could say , and would say , if it were n't for the fact that she adored the Vicar with a passion that bordered on the obsessive . |
| 7 | She asked Mrs Phipps , as delicately as she could . |
| 8 | If one such had done the deed , she could be of no assistance in the enquiries . |
| 9 | She could n't face them a minute longer . |
| 10 | Then she undid her dress ( she could manage it quite well by herself , it seemed ) and let it fall , picking up the kimono from the couch and wrapping it casually around her . |
| 11 | ‘ She could have left it herself , ’ said Mrs Cornforth . |
| 12 | ‘ She could have seduced Thomas , ’ suggested Mary . |
| 13 | Over the years , Anne had put up with an awful lot from me and she had now finally decided she could n't take it any more . |
| 14 | And that same me , who twenty-four hours earlier had decided she could never go back to Harwich , would be on her way there tomorrow . |
| 15 | Actually , she could probably have married him and had a few nice babies with his laughing blue eyes , his loony hippy fluffy hair , and maybe her eyebrows . |
| 16 | He would not be in at all if she could stand it . |
| 17 | No way she could show this to Lucy ! |
| 18 | Jay would not be shut out and from what she could tell , Lucy did n't want to shut her out . |
| 19 | And at these times , she could hold Lucy 's hand , and would melt when the pressure was returned . |
| 20 | And then she could say she 'd like to borrow it . |
| 21 | To her mind , Lucy looked like she could do with a huge warm hug . |
| 22 | Jay became slashingly dykey , rolling one cigarette after another , was unashamedly heterosexist , never raised her voice above a steely drawl , though her throat was screaming with all the things she could n't say , her body bruised with the feeling of being trivialised . |
| 23 | And hazelnut stuffed aubergines , mozzarella cheese , parmesan , the tiniest button mushrooms she could find . |
| 24 | Lucy was treating Jay like a delightful new acquaintance she could n't quite place or fit into her life . |
| 25 | ‘ Mm , ’ she said , wordless at how she could n't spit out that furious NO ! |
| 26 | She could about stagger to the off-licence and obliterate the rest of the evening . |
| 27 | ‘ Go ahead , ’ said Jay , enjoying this objective discussion where she could focus entirely on the delirium and dilemma of Lucy . |
| 28 | She knew she could n't , did n't want to . |
| 29 | Gave her the facts to make of what she would ; and make of them what she could , Jay did not understand . |
| 30 | Negotiating her way home , Jay wished she could borrow some of Jamie 's crowd-quelling chutzpah to face Lucy . |