Example sentences of "she could [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | She let out her pent-up breath in a loud gasp of relief ; then she bent over the handlebars and sent the bike whizzing as fast as she could pedal it across the remaining hundred yards or so of field . |
| 32 | She trusted him to look after the Post 's interests before he sold the story to any other outlets , but she did not know whether she could trust him with the story . |
| 33 | But , before she could find it in the darkness , he switched on the bedside lamp , and her face flamed with colour as he turned to look at her , his eyes darkening as they swept freely over her nakedness . |
| 34 | She could see nothing through the night — and hear nothing other than the sound of rolling waves — until the outline of the steep cliffs towered above her . |
| 35 | She could see nothing through the thick clouds of dust that choked her . |
| 36 | Again she glanced at the windscreen of the other car but she could see nothing through the darkened glass . |
| 37 | At first she could see nothing except the river so many floors below them . |
| 38 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
| 39 | She did not even notice when Connor and Ruth took the children out of the kitchen , closing the door softly behind them ; she could see nothing but the hope and the love that shone in Ernest 's patient , trusting face . |
| 40 | Yet she could see nothing in the future but hurt for both of them . |
| 41 | She could see him through the shutters — a big man , a Berber , a kind-looking man with bright blue eyes and tattoos . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | She could see it in the covert glances of the London girls , some of whom had been planning how to look at the Belvoir dance for the past month . |
| 44 | She could see it in the black expression that crossed his face and the tightened lips . |
| 45 | She could hear him in the room , yet he did n't answer . |
| 46 | Defries was sure he was shouting , although she could hear nothing but the thud of shells and the tinnitus inside her head . |
| 47 | I mean I do n't know whether she thought she could put them in the garden when she got to the new place and they 'd grow but |
| 48 | She could put him into the scale alongside Joseph and Tarquin Poulteney-Crosse whom she believed culpable of murder , or she could give him the benefit of the doubt . |
| 49 | She could put it beside the wooden table lamp on the cupboard by the door . |
| 50 | Robyn opened her mouth , but before she could put it to the test he clamped a hot sweaty palm over her lips . |
| 51 | Then her subtly coloured eyelids swept shut , blindness an instinctive need , as if by shutting Luke out of her vision she could barricade herself against the swoop of his mouth . |
| 52 | Once aboard , she found she could let them off the leash . |
| 53 | Just faintly she could hear the sound of the river , and she opened the window and leant out until she could glimpse it through the trees , the water still shrouded in clouds of early-morning mist . |