Example sentences of "she could say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peony looked suitably chastened , but there was a glint in her eye that told Peggy there was plenty more she could say , and would say , if it were n't for the fact that she adored the Vicar with a passion that bordered on the obsessive . |
| 2 | And then she could say she 'd like to borrow it . |
| 3 | She laughed and wondered what she could say . |
| 4 | But before she could say anything , Bella interrupted . |
| 5 | Now she could say it about someone else . |
| 6 | But perhaps she could say nothing , for Alida would not like it , there would be financial considerations . |
| 7 | For visitors would stare at her , ask her questions , would talk and expect a reply , and Alida knew that she could say nothing , could not cope with any demands . |
| 8 | Evelyn could hardly wait for dinner time so that she could say something to Jackie . |
| 9 | But anyone who could understand English and had watched the last Liberal broadcast , an exercise in pure Paddiography , would know perfectly well how she could say that . |
| 10 | If she could say playfully , in public , that he had been fiddling about with one design for three years , their conversations on his work in private must have been explosive . |
| 11 | ‘ No , you are not ready yet ’ was all she could say . |
| 12 | She could say , ‘ I feel I need more notice if you ca n't make it . |
| 13 | She looked as if she was waiting for me so before she could say anything I spoke . |
| 14 | She felt guilty , but she could say with a clear conscience that her business was so demanding that she hardly had time to think of Northumberland although , in truth , as her successes and problems in Italy had increased , there seemed less and less reason to return to Nora . |
| 15 | Was that all she could say ? |
| 16 | Before she could say anything , Nicky had begun to walk away . |
| 17 | If he could convince her that nothing she could say or do would make him change his mind about Carrie , the way would be open for him to prove to Carrie he had enough love for the two of them . |
| 18 | But before she could say a word that 'un came rushin' in . ’ |
| 19 | She could say , in all honesty , that she had looked out her college paints and brushes but they had been dried up and beyond recall . |
| 20 | I think she could say about five words . |
| 21 | She could say nothing . |
| 22 | She could say nothing . |
| 23 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 24 | Even if anyone saw it under the charred fringes of her robe , she could say it was homework . |
| 25 | She knew that nothing she could say would change his mind . |
| 26 | His eyes looked so unhappy that she could hardly bear it , but before she could say anything more he had plunged on : ‘ It must have been obvious and I 'm sorry for that too . |
| 27 | She looked up at him and before she could say anything else he had kissed her . |
| 28 | So she could say How could she do it how would you do it ? |
| 29 | Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen — in which case she would stand , self-confessed , as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place . |
| 30 | Or she could say that Derek had always had charming manners and was in the habit of commending ladies on their scent , even if it smelled of Alexandrian sewers , and sound as though she had lost something worth keeping — and inevitably regretful . |