Example sentences of "if she could [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a slight tremor to the hand she had raised , as if she could hold off the madness that way , and she dropped it swiftly as she absorbed the hardness of his saturnine face and the overt demand glittering hotly in his eyes . |
| 2 | It was nearly bedtime , but she rushed downstairs and asked if she could send for the parson . |
| 3 | And you know yesterday she had the nerve to ask me if she could sit at the end of our table . |
| 4 | ONE of our bar staff recently came into the kitchen to ask if she could look in the soup kettle to see what colour the soup was . |
| 5 | She never asked if she could help in the kitchen since she knew Alice would be irritated by an offer which she knew to be impractical and insincere . |
| 6 | If she could get to the main hall , she could automatically open the gates from the instrument panel by the front door . |
| 7 | And since she had no idea where to go yet , even if she could get off the island , the only course possible was to take things a step at a time and try not to rail against a spiteful fate . |