Example sentences of "she could [verb] [pron] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could do nothing about the cold or the slick damp that covered the walls , but she had gathered as much straw as she could and had made a bed in the driest of the cells . |
| 2 | She saw Naylor 's sharp glance go over her , but , while she quickly lowered her glance , she could do nothing about the unexpected riot of colour that flooded her face . |
| 3 | Ruth kept her distance from him but she could do nothing about the wretched aura that surrounded him . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was somebody who had mild short-term memory loss , which varied from day to day but she could remember anything about the past . |