Example sentences of "she could look " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If she could look at meat hanging in a butcher 's , the fieldworker was told when she was accompanying policemen to a postmortem , she could look at dead bodies . |
| 3 | If she could look at meat hanging in a butcher 's , the fieldworker was told when she was accompanying policemen to a postmortem , she could look at dead bodies . |
| 4 | Well , that was all right — she could look after Mum in the hour that was to follow while the identity of the body was established , and in all the grim hours after that , if the body was her sister . |
| 5 | The times were few and far between when she could look at him and not be reminded of his many faults and shortcomings . |
| 6 | She could look back down on her twenty-two years and see a tall handsome man , and she recalled his words a few minutes ago , ‘ Sorrow does n't last . ’ |
| 7 | She had come to look forward to the intervals between tenants , for at such times she would sit at the bedroom window that overlooked the street , which sloped swiftly to the main thoroughfare ; and guided by the landmarks of St Dominic 's church and , beyond that , St Ann 's , she could look over the chimney pots and catch a glimpse of the river gleaming between the busy traffic on it . |
| 8 | But never mind , she could look at them and touch them and dream . |
| 9 | She had by then married and was living in Pakistan where , she found , she could look on events from a distance and see them more vividly . |
| 10 | She could look at a row of colours for hours and never be bored . |
| 11 | He was a manager in Brooke Brothers , Men 's Outfitters — and being in trade was only admissible by the skin of his teeth and because , Mrs Gutermann being a widow , she could look to him to undertake certain practical tasks , to make himself useful . |
| 12 | That she could look up at men rather than over or down at them . |
| 13 | She had resigned from her ambulance unit because her own mother was ill and had rented a house outside Glasgow so that she could look after her and still be near the port when their father 's ship came in . |
| 14 | She could look back on that time with a great deal of fondness ; it had been one of the few times in her life when she had been truly free — there had been no one , neither family , friends nor employer — to make demands on her . |
| 15 | If she married one of them she could look forward to a life of uncertainty , warfare , shortages , assassinations , massacres and tragedy . |
| 16 | She could look at me and I would n't feel that horror , people recoiling from me — your Chesarynth would n't do that . |
| 17 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |
| 18 | She could look down over the rail into a walled sunken courtyard belonging to the basement flat , a brick-lined niche with some white cast-iron garden furniture and some shrubs in open barrels . |
| 19 | In other words , Laura 's idea of the working woman was one who worked at home , and her needs should be catered for so that she could look attractive in the environment in which she naturally flourished . |
| 20 | Léonie turned her head so that she could look at Baptiste . |
| 21 | She could look after herself . |
| 22 | Lisa pulled herself up to her full five feet three inches , wishing for an extra foot or so so that she could look him in the eye . |
| 23 | Here was a man she could look up to , a man she should like immensely — if she did n't have so many reasons to dislike him ! |
| 24 | She could look neither at Dr Neil , nor at the tasteless harpy who was tormenting him with her tactlessness . |
| 25 | Whatever she could look for in the future must be looked for outside marriage . |
| 26 | The party had become a turning-point in many ways ; now , weeks later , she could look at it with a certain amount of dispassion , view her life over the past few months with a critical eye . |
| 27 | She could still feel fitzAlan 's eyes on her and flushed slightly , steeling herself before she could look at him again , and fully expecting a remark that was sure to be unpleasant at best . |
| 28 | Anna was in the kitchen preparing vegetables , and from where she stood at the sink she could look across the water to Falmouth , a few hundred yards away : the Greenbank Hotel , the Royal Yacht Club , the new flats on the Packet Quays , then the backs of High Street and the pier . |
| 29 | Marc 's beautiful bronze limbs weighted her down , and she squirmed surreptitiously without waking him in order to change her position so that she could look at him properly . |
| 30 | She only wished she could look forward to that day — instead , she realised , aching inside at the prospect , she was dreading it . |