Example sentences of "[conj] she could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat her down at the table , where she could feel the warmth of the fire after her bath . |
| 2 | She saw Chesarynth cast out , begging in the gutter Hells of Earth where she could feel no home as Jezrael had on Mars . |
| 3 | Seconds later she shoulder-charged the door , and found herself in an eerie moonlit room where she could distinguish nothing , except the deafening howls which seemed to reverberate off the walls . |
| 4 | Every time we talked about Jamila running away from home , where she could go and how we could get money to help her survive , she said , ‘ What about my mother ? ’ |
| 5 | A friend said it would be wonderful if she could have a wood with an obelisk where she could go and sit , ’ says Gwyn . |
| 6 | ‘ Er — just the one night , I think , ’ she replied , having hoped not to stay even that long but suddenly realising that , since she needed some kind of base where she could go to collect her thoughts , that perhaps to have a room where she could relax and think in private was n't such a bad idea after all . |
| 7 | Jinny found some nearer the top , in the open , where she could stand and peer down at the cottage . |
| 8 | The gossiping and the cigar smoke carried strongly downwind to Nora , who had chosen a place to the south of the covert , where she could stand unseen in a gateway , her silhouette lost against a spreading oak at his back . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's a clinic , the Marshes , where she could stay , if he thinks that would suit . |
| 10 | In a minute she would say she wanted to talk about Oliver and they would go somewhere quiet , where she could explain everything slowly , from the beginning . |
| 11 | She chose the Council because she felt she wanted something where she could contribute to the community . |
| 12 | From now on , though she knew of nowhere else where she could sleep , she resolved never to share her cousin 's berth again . |
| 13 | She felt she had created a little peaceful corner where she could sit and feel close to both her late mother and her cat . |
| 14 | She had taken a job in Manchester which bored her as much as she knew it would , but where she could settle down and get to know the people she was working with . |
| 15 | ‘ Mr. Bonanza thought it would be better for the young lady to be taken somewhere away from here , where she could rest and get well . ’ |
| 16 | He carried her to a private room at the hotel , where she could rest until she felt well enough to ride home . |
| 17 | So while Maria Candida retched and wailed and dabbed at her nose in the cabin , Sara spent most of her time up on deck , either with Dom Alfonso , who was acting as Dom João 's agent , or — on the calmer days — further for 'd , where she could watch the porpoises leaping round the bows and listen to the creak of timber and the wind in the rigging . |
| 18 | She did intend to join a nearby sports club , where she could swim regularly , as soon as she was slim , but meanwhile shyly admitted to feeling too embarrassed to be seen in a swimsuit . |
| 19 | Robbie could n't tell what he was thinking , but her mind was only on the goal ahead , some private spot where their lovemaking could be renewed , where she could give herself up to him and all the promised delights his body offered hers . |
| 20 | On occasion , however , Alexandra would sometimes get her way and drag the Prince to services at the church she favoured , St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in Oxford Street , where she could enjoy being in the company of other deaf people , and be able to follow the services , as she was a fluent fingerspeller . |
| 21 | Outside in the street , where she could raise her voice again , she almost shouted at him , telling him he was to stop behaving as if he had been right and she wrong — as if he believed she now shared his views and endorsed his ridiculous maunderings . |
| 22 | She picked up both the paper and the keys , and this time held her arms out immediately in front of her — where she could keep her eye on both at the same time . |
| 23 | Placing her feet carefully , Ace crept around the perimeter of the low scrub that surrounded the hilltop , finally finding a position overlooking the road , where she could keep an eye on whoever was approaching . |
| 24 | Spun me a good story about her husband , Malcolm , and how he 'd died , and she was going to stay with a friend in Birkleigh until she found a living-in job where she could keep you . |
| 25 | The underground was still working , and brought her near the church , where she could see the crowd and the candles outside . |
| 26 | I hoped she would n't make a big production out of the delivery upstairs , but just in case she did I thought I would n't go anywhere where she could see me and point me out to any of the owners , so I left through the front exit gates and found the actors ' bus with its Mystery Race Train banner and faded inside into the reassembling troupe . |
| 27 | Repelled yet attracted by the ferocious masks , she finally tried on one or two , but there was no mirror where she could see herself , although she felt peculiarly feline or vulpine according to the mask she wore . |
| 28 | She was happy to be near a door into the street , where she could see passers-by and know that other lives went on in their placid courses . |
| 29 | She made some coffee , and went out on the balcony in her cotton housecoat , where she could see the sun rising from behind the dark hills , and the slopes slowly become bathed with light . |
| 30 | She noted everyone in the choir , indeed , as part of a determined effort not to gaze all the time at Giles Carnaby , who was in the back row , in the middle of the tenors , straight ahead of her , where she could consider him in detail — silvery hair , grey herring-bone tweed jacket , greenish shirt , paisley patterned silk tie ( so much for not gazing … ) |