Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] she could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's not frightened of anyone , I bet she could even stop Hitler . |
| 2 | Looking back I think she could hardly have lived anywhere more suited to the containment of her difficulty . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She found she could just catch a direct Finnair flight if she hurried . |
| 5 | As she heard her front door click , Rachel 's anger suddenly turned to dismay and as she turned to the window she found she could only see the outline of the cathedral through a mist of tears . |
| 6 | Why had she thought she could just walk away ? |
| 7 | She decided she could safely leave him . |
| 8 | A long sash window framing a view down , far below , to where she fancied she could almost see the floodlit Verdala Palace and the Buskett Gardens , where the Mnarja would flow on until dawn … |
| 9 | Suppose she thought she could probably get them to school , but ca n't bring them home . |
| 10 | She was trembling , aflame with a happiness so great she thought she could never contain it as Rune discarded his own clothes with such rapidity and lack of care that two shirt buttons fell unheeded on to the carpet . |
| 11 | Or perhaps she thought she could always pretend to be a relative and come and claim me from the hospital . |
| 12 | She thought she could almost see the memories and she could certainly hear the echoes . |
| 13 | So far as she could recall , she had seen no reviews but then , of course , she knew she could easily have missed them in the interstices of choosing wallpaper , driving down to Hillmarden , overseeing decorators , interviewing nannies , buying a layette and all the hundred and one other things with which she was continually being confronted . |
| 14 | He drove so smoothly and the tyres hummed so pleasantly on the tarred road that she knew she could easily have slept . |
| 15 | And of Hepzibah , because she was comforting Nick in a way she knew she could never do . |
| 16 | She knew she could never look sophisticated . |
| 17 | And now she knew she could never escape the past , as she had hoped . |
| 18 | She knew she could never trespass on any liking from that robust and distant lady . |
| 19 | She felt she could partially excuse his megalomaniac meddlings in her genes now that she knew he was mentally unstable . |
| 20 | This led to the development officer having to assume such a role herself , and occasionally this involved her in more work than she felt she could easily provide . |
| 21 | Although it was murky , she felt she could almost pick out the silhouettes of other buildings up there , as if they were constructed on the inside of the dome itself . |
| 22 | Her father had expected excessively high standards of her as a child — better deportment , better table manners and better school reports — all of which she felt she could never attain . |
| 23 | She felt she could never forgive herself , but when she got there , the beauty of the place overcame her again . |
| 24 | She felt she could still continue to improve , so she decided to have further specialist physiotherapy treatment privately , under her medical insurance scheme . |
| 25 | That was impossible , because the heat and the champagne made her feel dizzy , till she felt she could hardly concentrate . |
| 26 | Josh Thayer 's warm brown eyes swam before her , and for a moment she wished she could simply find him and throw herself into his comforting arms . |
| 27 | She wished she could just go back to bed and start the day all over again , only somehow making it turn out completely normal this time . |
| 28 | Childishly , she wished she could still go gardening with him . |
| 29 | But if she could elude constable , guards and attendants one way , she supposed she could likewise elude them the other . |
| 30 | I was just thinking that maybe at the beginning of the day people could , if she knows who is due she could actually write that in , and when they came she could just tick that that they 'd arrived . |