Example sentences of "she have [verb] [pers pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Maggie scrounged what food she could , and when Sarah dipped a crust of bread in the cabbage soup she 'd made she could see the cracks in the bottom of the dish through the thin liquid . |
| 2 | It did n't seem right , yet , looking at his face you 'd , she 'd thought he could have come home , but when you lifted the bloody sheets and then she 'd never seen anything like it , and then on the Monday morning , I stayed with him Sunday night and he were on morphine fusions and then on the Monday morning I woke up and mum had gone , when I looked at dad I thought to myself then I thought oh boy you ai n't gon na go now mum nipped home for a bath they said she could and it 'll be alright and they said |
| 3 | She 'd thought she could cope with her fears . |
| 4 | She had imagined she could face his passion and then remember it with warmth . |
| 5 | Once she had believed she could control these feelings , but in reality that was proving not so easy to do . |
| 6 | For there had been no lack of men whom she had wished she could fall in love with , good men who would undoubtedly have made her happy . |
| 7 | She had thought they could have fruit for dessert but the bananas looked a bit black and sorry , and there were only two ( bruised ) peaches left . |
| 8 | She had thought he could do nothing more to her , but he had . |
| 9 | And she had thought she could subjugate him ! |
| 10 | She said , ‘ Oliver , ’ and there was no answer , though she had thought she could hear him breathing . |