Example sentences of "she could [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she laid down as many of the others as she could fit in the space . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She could sit in the armchairs : Marie had seen her . |
| 4 | She was working for his charity for a third of what she could earn in the City , he enthused . |
| 5 | If she was good , maybe ‘ soon ’ would be sooner still and she could dance in the meanings … . |
| 6 | He looked calmly , almost — as far as she could tell in the light that poured from the house onto the terrace — amusedly at her . |
| 7 | Her head shot up — it was all of her that she could move in the confined space — and blue eyes locked with sleepy brown ones . |
| 8 | She wished she could stand in the night and laugh , but already she had been heard . |
| 9 | She never asked if she could help in the kitchen since she knew Alice would be irritated by an offer which she knew to be impractical and insincere . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Ever-loyal Leigh says that 's grossly unfair on a woman who proved she could act in the movie Madame Sousatzka and that she could sing and dance in the film version of Thirties musical The Boyfriend . |
| 12 | She could lie in the sun ; the wind could blow all over her , even , with careful positioning , the neglected places under her arms . |
| 13 | She should try to forget him , but the memory of their afternoon together had the power to make her cheeks rosy , and so they stayed while she put on the plainest gown which she could find in the wardrobe which she had left behind , with her personal maid , when she had pretended to go with the Parslows . |
| 14 | At least she could revel in the bright meanings in which Friend had painted her , had accepted her . |
| 15 | What little hair he had shone with a silver sheen in the lamplight and she could see in the crumpled , brick-red face , the likeness of Stephen . |
| 16 | Here I am , replied the person she could see in the chair . |
| 17 | All she could see in the gloom was the high stone wall of some building . |
| 18 | Now there was once a Queen , who might have been thought to have everything she could desire in the world , but had set her heart on a strange silent bird a traveller had told of , which lived in the snowy mountains , nested only once , raised its gold and silver chick , sang once only , and then faded like snow in the lowlands . |
| 19 | It must be a blackbird she could hear in the pear tree . |
| 20 | With Stephen away from the estate , she could relax in the assurance that there was no way that Davis could betray her . |
| 21 | This was the time she enjoyed most ; when she could relax in the cosy drawing room , with its pale green walls and deep floral armchairs , and with the cheery fire-glow sending out waves of warmth that made her deliciously sleepy . |