Example sentences of "[subord] she could [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In silence they walked to the communal oven , and back , and she almost ran with the tray steaming with fragrant tomato and garlic to try to alert Rosa so she could prepare herself for his appearance . |
| 2 | A cell awaited her , and certain death — unless she could throw herself on the Queen 's mercy . |
| 3 | Here , in her world , an icy wind was gathering force and malice , preparing to freeze the path beneath her feet , aim fierce arrows of hail and sleet at her cringing back , bury her — unless she could drag herself up St Jude 's Hill fast enough — in snow . |
| 4 | She tended to be over-indulgent with Victoria , partly because she could see herself in the child and partly too , in some perverse fashion , to make up for what she considered to be her own harsh upbringing under Jonadab 's strict rules . |
| 5 | He had the passenger door open before she could free herself from the seatbelt . |