Example sentences of "she could [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she grappled with the staples she could feel inside the bag the firm shape of a book . |
| 2 | Then she laid down as many of the others as she could fit in the space . |
| 3 | Mrs Falconer , a senior lecturer in textiles , has been told there is funding for only one textile lecturer in the school , but that she could remain on the staff if she accepted demotion to ordinary lecturer — a post already held by her sister , Barbara Diack . |
| 4 | She has , however , been informed that she could remain on the RGU staff if she accepted a demotion to ordinary lecturer — the post held by her sister , Mrs Barbara Diack , who , in turn , would lose her job . |
| 5 | Besides , she could swim round the headland too , and vanish . |
| 6 | Johnny had moved to the far end of the room and she could no longer see him , but she could guess at the expression on his face . |
| 7 | A puppy with only one sprint at Harolds Cross on her Irish card , she could improve over the coming weeks . |
| 8 | Someone behind them coughed pointedly and they went quiet but Sally was wishing she could shout to the whole room : ‘ That 's my sister ! ’ |
| 9 | Auntie Lou said she could sew a piece of material on the bottom to lengthen the skirt but there was nothing she could do about the top and Carrie cried a little , privately , not because the dress was no use but because her mother should have guessed how much she had grown . |
| 10 | There seemed nothing she could do about the deeply dismaying , sick feelings of nervous excitement whenever she was anywhere near his tall , rangy figure . |
| 11 | Since there had been clearly nothing she could do about the situation , Laura had been forced to buckle down and do what she could to keep the twins happy . |
| 12 | She could do with the extra money . ’ |
| 13 | Herta sometimes looks as though she could do with the odd impotent interlude . |
| 14 | Coun Fishwick said there was not a lot she could do with the proclamation , adding it was county council business anyway . |
| 15 | She could do without the Romance and the Glamour , the heart-stopping uniform and the V.C. |
| 16 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 17 | She prayed the guttering would hold her weight as she slowly hauled herself up until she could sit astride the peak of the roof . |
| 18 | And you know yesterday she had the nerve to ask me if she could sit at the end of our table . |
| 19 | She could sit in the armchairs : Marie had seen her . |
| 20 | ‘ He wanted her to go and buy some presentable clothes she could wear to the sort of smart restaurants he was taking her to . ’ |
| 21 | Maybe she 'd always had someone to look after her ; he 'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life , first his mother and then Margaret , who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening . |
| 22 | I asked my neighbour to turn down her records as I found it impossible to concentrate and she said the only way she could cope with the stress of her reality was to blast her music . |
| 23 | She could cope with the Jonathans of this world . |
| 24 | Quickly she looked away , fiddling with papers on her desk , not sure she could cope with the anguish in his eyes that mirrored her own , but David lingered . |
| 25 | Even on Christmas Day , after church , she could walk to the shop and buy her necessaries . |
| 26 | First , she could walk to the facilities in the silence of her empty room . |
| 27 | She realised it was crammed full of television sets , and sedately moved to the next , to examine dresses , until she could walk into the Supermarket without anyone remarking her breathing . |
| 28 | Carla took her shoes off and loosed his arm so that she could walk through the lip of foam . |
| 29 | She was half-turned from him , letting her eyes follow the beams and wishing she could drift through the open doors as easily as the nets lifted in the seasonless breeze . |
| 30 | She was working for his charity for a third of what she could earn in the City , he enthused . |