Example sentences of "she could [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stark desire in his face threatened to take what strength she had left , nor did he make any attempt to hide the blatant response of his body to that consuming , passionate kiss , continuing to hold her so tightly that she could feel him with every part of her being , could still taste him inside her mouth . |
| 2 | There was a terrible rage in him , she could feel it like an electric charge in the room . |
| 3 | Before she could fit it in the lock the door opened . |
| 4 | She saved her curses until she could shout them into the night — then swallowed them anyway out of paranoia . |
| 5 | I mean I wo n't go into detail , but I mean she could do endowment , she could do it on a maximum investment plan basis , to back up her P E P , erm and save regularly through different funds . |
| 6 | She could do it on the back an'all , she 's got a third of an acre of garden , it 's bloody massive . |
| 7 | She knew she should n't speak to a strange man , but as her Brownie Guider was under a tree not many yards away she thought she could tell him about the litter that had caused the Pack to lose the use of Ferngrove Park . |
| 8 | That she could retain it through the tough years of the Depression with no outside help and very little money is remarkable . |
| 9 | Perhaps she could smell me through the door . |
| 10 | The officer said she believed she could link them to the offence . |
| 11 | She was Labour , she said , but was n't sure she could make it to the polls . |
| 12 | She sincerely hoped that she could make it to the track before any car came because she knew exactly what a mess she looked . |
| 13 | Leonora watched him go with mixed feelings , not really sure she could make it to the bathroom alone , despite her fine words . |
| 14 | She could sense it in the way men talked to her , the sideways glances of strangers . |
| 15 | She could cow him at a glance . |
| 16 | If the hon. Member for Wolverhampton , North-East ( Mrs. Hicks ) wants to raise the matter , she could raise it on the Adjournment . |
| 17 | The queer thought : Doctor , she could read him like a book . |
| 18 | He was openly laughing at her , and she wished she could push him into the sea . |
| 19 | I 'll put them in the bin then , ’ she replied , but before she could get them off the cart he handed us the balloons . |
| 20 | She could supply them with a few answers . |
| 21 | Lisa pulled herself up to her full five feet three inches , wishing for an extra foot or so so that she could look him in the eye . |
| 22 | Since the advent of Felicity , she had gone up to sleep in the attic — an arrangement she preferred , as she had absolute privacy up there , and as luck would have it , there was an electric fire , so that she could use it as a study . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She could see him as a prototype for the border entrepreneur trapped here in the decline and fall of this precarious city , the market-stallholder , the baths attendant , the potter , the vegetable grower , any one of the native opportunists who had rallied to serve and exploit this hothouse community of time-expired settlers and pay-happy leave-men . |
| 27 | She could see him through the shutters — a big man , a Berber , a kind-looking man with bright blue eyes and tattoos . |
| 28 | This story was a favourite of the headmistress of her primary school , so she heard it often at Morning Prayers , and long before she could see it as a parable , she already felt shock before its injustice . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She could see it in the black expression that crossed his face and the tightened lips . |