Example sentences of "she [modal v] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the thing persisted , her only remaining lung would collapse under a bag of pus and she would die , because she could no longer breathe . |
| 2 | If she truly loved someone , she could not be indifferent to the fate of other people , because her beloved would be dependent on that fate , he would be part of it , and she could no longer feel that mankind 's torments , its wars and holidays , were none of her concern . |
| 3 | It seemed that she could no longer use this place to escape from the reality of the present : from her fears for Simon and Bella , her growing rage against Gazzer and from a terrible , sinister premonition that her life was about to fall apart . |
| 4 | Much as she deserved to travel the world with people of her own social standing , she could no longer hope to do so with a happy hear and a clear conscience . |
| 5 | Mrs Ware telephoned me five weeks after her husband died saying that she felt her children should be taken into care and she should be hospitalized because she could no longer cope . |
| 6 | But Mr Landor advanced upon her , step by step and because she could no longer bear to look at him and because his distorted face seemed to merge with the angel 's she turned to dash for the door . |
| 7 | She could no longer identify her own Englishness — it was lost under the thick veneer of assumed Italian ways and manners . |
| 8 | If she could no longer rise to an adventurous life of the spirit , she could keep doggedly on . |
| 9 | A THREE-YEAR-OLD Siamese twin , separated from her sister in one of the most complicated operations yet attempted , died because she could no longer survive on her own , Great Ormond Street Hospital said yesterday . |
| 10 | He sensed the growing tension in Mariana and felt her turn her head so that she could no longer see the wall of cloud less than half a mile to their left . |
| 11 | She could no longer see the Steep yet the feeling of the dark airless room she had left behind , the sound of her foster-parents breathing heavily in the close darkness , still seemed to hang about her and draw her back . |
| 12 | But as the months became years she could no longer hide her feelings . |
| 13 | It was nearly two and a half years since Hamish had walked out on Daisy and she could no longer claim to be madly in love with him , but she missed the presence of a man in her life , and her self-confidence was in tatters . |
| 14 | Which would in any case , cease , she thought , if she could no longer work for the Carsons . |
| 15 | When they waved to her , and held up little Enoch to see her better , she could no longer keep back the blinding tears . |
| 16 | Ruth knew she could no more disappoint her than she could snatch a toy from a baby . |
| 17 | That mean she could no longer counter-sign company cheques . |
| 18 | He also acknowledged the kindness of a small group of friends at Queen 's Park who stood by her in prayer and practical matters which she could no longer manage herself . |
| 19 | He felt her cheeks run wet with tears , then heard her breaths shorten as he entered her ; then fully , masterfully , possessed her body , so that she could no longer free herself if she would . |
| 20 | A TRAGIC pensioner hanged herself because she could no longer cope with the pain of her illness , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 21 | She had reached the Fifth Level , and she could no longer go back . |
| 22 | When her company offered her employment at new premises she could no longer walk to work but would have had to undergo a half-hour bus journey . |
| 23 | ( However , in this particular case , Mrs Hohne 's transfer to the new premises resulted in both her status and pay being reduced as she could no longer hold the post of manageress because there already was a person in this position in the new premises . |
| 24 | She could no longer breathe . |
| 25 | But for Diana this chatter signified freedom , a freedom she could no longer enjoy . |
| 26 | She could not move , she could no longer turn the pages , but she kept her eyes down . |
| 27 | They had been bought by a well intended but misguided woman who found that she could no longer afford to keep them . |
| 28 | But today , with more time at her disposal , she could no longer resist the adventure , and in a moment she was out of her own plain black Sunday dress , with its detachable white collar and cuffs , and into the sumptuous white silk which had clothed her dead mother once and for just a few short hours . |
| 29 | The Collector 's eye came to rest on the corner where Miriam lay ; she was too weak to help Dr McNab now , but although she could no longer be of any service to the ailing figures who lay nearby , she had refused to let the Collector move her mattress up to the dais where the air was better and where cholera clouds would be less likely to hang ( if such things existed , which of course they had been proved not to by Dr McNab , but all the same … ) . |
| 30 | Ruth saw she could n't last long ; her face had a blind look , as if she could no longer see through the dazzling fire . |