Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] she could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gripping the hammer in one fist and propping the hatch up with her free hand , she crouched low so that she had about an inch gap through which she could see the back door . |
| 2 | She was almost on top of the river before she realised that this was where the path was leading , and here she found another seat from which she could see a boat or two plaiting lazy fans of rippling wake through the smooth water . |
| 3 | The two were now inside the grille together and Mena Iskander had been given strict instructions to try to secure Miss Postlethwaite a seat from which she could see Zoser clearly and if possible his wife as well . |
| 4 | But , since she could n't do anything about the car situation until that wretched part had been delivered , should n't she concentrate her worries on what she could do something about ? |
| 5 | Giles , in spite of his charm , was not the type of man she admired , still less the type with whom she could fall in love . |
| 6 | The articled clerk then advised the wife to buy a small house in an unsuitable area with a mortgage in order to obtain mortgage relief , even though she had no taxable income against which she could claim relief . |
| 7 | She was not going to leave until he told her , and at last he did go on , while she listened carefully , to make a picture for herself she could trust . |
| 8 | However , Joshua Smith intervened by buying it all up before the sale , and advanced Emma a sum on its security with which she could pay more outstanding bills . |
| 9 | In that look she saw her life with him and it was a decent life : the small farm in high northern fell-land , the farm coming in part or in whole to him , several children , heavy days , quiet times , a life she often yearned for — a plain and ordinary life away from this coddled valley , a place in which she could start again . |
| 10 | She generally lived in a room next to the church , which had a window in the wall through which she could watch the Mass and receive the sacraments . |
| 11 | She had introduced herself on the doorstep , often been invited in and asked the tenants to let her know if they had any problems with which she could help . |
| 12 | And the dear , good man had designed Almsmead , in the centre of a green field ; had surrounded it with a rose-garden ; given her apple trees and a lily-pond ; a trellised , covered walk down to the river with its clear , clean water in which she could see smooth pebbles and little silvery fishes instead of the slime and gas bubbles and dead cats one saw — if one had the stomach to look — in Frizingley 's canal . |
| 13 | She hung on to the towelling and the scissors , and then looked around the dismal room to find a clean surface on which she could put them . |
| 14 | She began to feel foolish but she had to talk to somebody and Miss Hatherby was the only person to whom she could turn . |
| 15 | She now had three of that lady 's outfits in the wardrobe and there had not yet been an occasion on which she could wear one of them : the last one had been a winter coat sporting a large fur collar , and the previous one , as Miss Belle called it , an afternoon tea gown . |
| 16 | She needed to keep it all to herself for a few hours — hours in which she could live that precious time over and over again , recall his kisses , his voice and , above all , the look in his eyes . |
| 17 | There were so many ways in which she could help , and by doing so she might mitigate the fears which crowded upon her when dusk fell . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ How is Kathleen ? ’ she asked , to give herself some time and in an effort to restore the conversation to a level on which she could cope . |
| 20 | Because she had no man , she had no income beyond what she could earn . |
| 21 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 22 | Sara stood in the road and inhaled warm , clean country air in which she could distinguish the smell of the sea from a hint of the gorse on the hills . |
| 23 | Kelly had no more rides on whom she could expunge the memory of that first race . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There was a momentary silence during which she could imagine him rallying for another attack . |
| 26 | I got the impression very quickly that she was going through a period where she was experimenting a lot with what she could get away with as an individual . |
| 27 | When she had to set a plate before him she could smell pomade on his hair , and her gaze was drawn to the long , clever hands which had once touched her body so intimately and unprofessionally . |
| 28 | A woman would be quite prepared to accept a wage lower than a male compositor 's , since it would probably still be a great improvement on what she could earn elsewhere . |
| 29 | He would baffle and intrigue her , just as he had done Cassie on their first meeting ; and Cassie could think of no way in which she could explain him away . |
| 30 | If only there were some way in which she could let him know that his feelings for her were not something for which he needed to apologise without landing them both in a situation from which they could not retreat . |