Example sentences of "she could [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cell awaited her , and certain death — unless she could throw herself on the Queen 's mercy . |
| 2 | She could busy herself in the garden till then . |
| 3 | As she danced she could lose herself in the movement . |
| 4 | He had the passenger door open before she could free herself from the seatbelt . |
| 5 | Still , she could console herself with the knowledge that Luke , and all his complexities , would n't be impinging upon her life for much longer . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |