Example sentences of "she could not [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could hear the beating of his heart and she closed her eyes , thankful for his presence for she could not bear to be alone , not now , not yet . |
| 2 | Mademoiselle do believe me , begged Mary-Lou in despair , for she could not bear to be scolded like that . |
| 3 | She tells him about her father — about how he stood on the cliffs in a flapping raincoat when she was a child and sang the whole of ‘ O Thou that tellest Good Tidings to Zion ’ over the roar of the wind and surf , and about how later she could not speak to him without irritation in spite of her love for him . |
| 4 | He did not know how to tell her that he was very , very sorry for being small , and for snivelling , and for ruining her life so that she could not go to America to be a film-star . |
| 5 | The letter must have said that she could not go to the Mansion again . |
| 6 | She could not go to Adamus . |
| 7 | He had been cunning , arriving so early that she could not pretend to be rushing to work . |
| 8 | But she was not the same as them , she could not pretend to be . |
| 9 | She could not walk to the shops as there was no guarantee she would arrive there , let alone walk back . |
| 10 | She could not walk to the block , so the executioner helped her . |
| 11 | Sara did not care to be beholden to Matthew Preston for even one pupil , but she knew at this moment she could not afford to be choosey . |
| 12 | She felt sorry she had disturbed the usual calmness of a man she respected , but considered she could not apologize to him without either offending or encouraging him . |
| 13 | Er the chair being the offender , given the chair that collapsed underneath her er , she could n't , or she could n't explain to me how the chair managed to collapse underneath her ! |
| 14 | She could n't explain to herself why it should be , but it was something which she had tried to put out of her mind , for the present anyway . |
| 15 | Mum 'd be there , she could n't go to work with this anxiety hanging over her . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not sure she could n't go to ten , and she 'd certainly be ten in looks if she smiled more often . ’ |
| 17 | But she could n't go to a television interview like this , without make-up . |
| 18 | He backed away from her in mock fear , but he was still laughing at her and though she meant every word , she could n't continue to be angry with him . |
| 19 | At the same time , you wanted to grab Connie Fraser , and send her out in the country with a medical man to say she could n't talk to the law . |
| 20 | And the worst part was that she could n't talk to Elinor about it . |
| 21 | Marion whispered and turned away because she could n't bear to be there when something died , when all the love that she had bottled up inside herself evaporated like liquid left out in the sun . |
| 22 | That meant she could n't bear to be touched . |
| 23 | Lydia thought moodily that she could n't hope to be as boring as Dr Wyn if she tried all night . |
| 24 | No , she could n't speak to him , he was with a patient . |
| 25 | Somebody must be doing his mending for him , as she was doing Willis 's , and the idea gave her a stab of pain which she could n't relate to her other feelings . |
| 26 | She could n't pretend to be sophisticated and flippant and terribly cool any more . |
| 27 | She could n't wait to be back under the lights again with all eyes on her . |
| 28 | ‘ Last time she could n't wait to be rid of us . |
| 29 | She would n't rush back — that might imply she could n't wait to be with him again — but on the other hand she did n't want to leave it too long ; there were plenty of women , Melissa included , she had noticed , who had had their limpet-like eyes firmly glued to his face . |
| 30 | She could n't see to the bottom of the scree slope . |