Example sentences of "she could [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In truth , she should be grateful to him for coming to her rescue — instead she could barely bring herself to be civil . |
| 2 | By this time Dinah was exhausted and desperate ; she could not drag herself round any more managers ’ offices today , they would look at her and see a bedraggled young woman who must be as bad as the papers said . |
| 3 | Such was the Doctor 's rage , so accustomed was Louise to obedience , that she could not prevent herself from hurrying to execute his orders . |
| 4 | She could not prevent herself from saying in a doubtful voice , ‘ You will be careful when you go to bed , wo n't you ? ’ |
| 5 | Although she did not deny that he was handsome and in many ways attractive , she could not envisage herself in an intimate relationship with him . |
| 6 | After this ( but only ‘ when she was in any company ’ ) she could not restrain herself from saying , ‘ It is full merry in Heaven ’ . |
| 7 | When Ariel saw how the incomers failed to meet indigo 's exacting standards of care , she could not restrain herself from offering her expertise ; she tended , restaked , pruned and watered the trampled shrubberies of Sycorax , teaching the English how to cultivate the precious dye . |
| 8 | Unhappy with the Steads , where she was beaten with a leather strap for wetting the bed , Ruth found a happier relationship with another family , but she could not rid herself of the insecurity . |
| 9 | The name had been dropped into Karen 's consciousness only days before , at Jessica 's home near Belfast , and she could not rid herself of curiosity . |
| 10 | She could not defend herself against them . |
| 11 | Should the plan be discovered and Alianor be seen as party to the clandestine meeting , she could well find herself in danger , accused of shelving her responsibility for the lady Anne 's protection and honour … |
| 12 | She could n't prevent herself from bursting out laughing . |
| 13 | ‘ And missed Nicole 's visit ? ’ she could n't prevent herself from asking any more than she could prevent the edge that had entered her voice . |
| 14 | Jessamy was so shaken by his quietly spoken reply that she could n't stop herself from over-reacting . |
| 15 | Kate hugged her mother in return , grateful for the warm body contact between them , but she could n't stop herself from crying . |
| 16 | Even in her weary state , she could n't stop herself from wriggling self-consciously . |
| 17 | She could n't give herself to Ahmed and could n't keep herself for me , you understand . ’ |
| 18 | Yet she could n't lose herself in the story ; the movements of Luke 's hand as he made lightning sketches , the lazy , sinuous stretching of his legs as he shifted his position impinged upon her concentration , and she found herself reading the same page over and over . |
| 19 | For days afterwards , she could n't rid herself of the guilty feeling that , somehow , she had brought the attack upon herself . |
| 20 | For one thing , she had never worn a strapless dress before , and although the bodice was tight-fitting and well supported she could n't rid herself of the fear that the dress would go slithering to the floor at some critical moment , leaving her almost naked , like in a bad dream . |
| 21 | She could n't defend herself without rousing him to greater ferocity ; she knew that in the moment of conflict , an enemy can never protest to be a friend and be believed ; she had seen the distrust Kit 's sudden switches of mood inspired . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , she could n't imagine herself in any form of intimacy with her employer , much as she liked him . |
| 23 | He wrote the part so that she could always support herself in exile if she did n't speak the language . ’ |
| 24 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 25 | Whatever her beginnings in life , she could now carry herself in the most élite company without the slightest fear of revealing her true origins . |