Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [prep] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite her ordeal the woman could only think of her boyfriend , but by the time police arrived to free him , he had wriggled free and managed to open the boot from the inside . |
| 2 | As the courses came and went , she could only toy with her food . |
| 3 | At first Kerry could only collapse in her mother 's arms and ask despairingly : ‘ How will we ever find Ben ? |
| 4 | Paige could only pick at her meal , forcing down a mouthful or two . |
| 5 | In a cloak and dagger operation , he got in touch and insisted he could only come to her shop when there would be no other customers around . |
| 6 | But without it she could not pay for her coffee and salad . |
| 7 | Florence Lees died 24 October 1922 , saying that she could not live without her husband , who had died two months previously . |
| 8 | Mr Penna said Mrs Watson 's death was a sad case of a hardworking and healthy woman who had decided she could not live without her husband . |
| 9 | She did n't because the moment was not right ; she did not yet know that she could not plead from her position of privilege that she had suffered too — ‘ So you want to annex our wrongs as well , do you ? ’ he might well have answered to her in just bitterness . |
| 10 | She described the exquisite pains of love when one day she could not rise from her bed because of the anguish from a scintilla of pure love that had pierced her heart . |
| 11 | After the break between his father and mother , he could not respond to her affection . |
| 12 | Mr Cubbage was like a cat on hot bricks , he was most distraught at Coleen 's decision to go to England , and he bombarded her with letters and flowers ; he could not wait for her return and for her to say the one word that would make her his wife . |
| 13 | She dialled 999 and tried to reach a pile of coats in the kitchen to extinguish the flames but could not get past her husband because of the heat and flames . |
| 14 | Constance could not look at her mother . |
| 15 | If he insisted on turning up when she was almost certain to be in bed , he could hardly complain about her nightshirt . |
| 16 | Those who hold the royal family dear could hardly wait for her downfall . |
| 17 | This was the final straw for Mrs B who broke down completely at the thought that her daughter could still think of her mother when this horrible thing was happening to her . |
| 18 | In the past , when she felt depressed , she knew that she could always rely on her grandmother to lift her spirits . |
| 19 | I reckon the closest Fergie could ever get to her role model would be pulling pints in the Queen Vic down in Albert Square . |
| 20 | It was foolishness of course , nothing could ever come of her infatuation for a man from another world , a world of comfort and security . |
| 21 | Nothing had changed , except she could now admit to her love . |
| 22 | ONE of the top glamour models in the Northern Ireland Electricity advert has packed in her day job because bosses could n't cope with her stardom . |
| 23 | She could n't tell from her vantage-point up here in the tower . |
| 24 | She could n't eat , could n't concentrate on her work , could n't do anything except wander round and round the drawing-room , frightened to set foot outside the door in case she bumped straight into Julius . |
| 25 | At least they could n't know about her visit to Puddephat 's rooms . |
| 26 | He could n't wait for her return to the Hit Factory . |
| 27 | Had n't she already taken time off work which she could ill afford in her sister 's interests ? |
| 28 | But she was still in the grip of a puzzling weariness , and she could barely walk by her couch without feeling compelled to drop down on it for a short nap . |