Example sentences of "she could [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There she could sit at one of the outdoor cafés and read her letter undisturbed while sipping a cool drink of lemon or perhaps iced tea . |
| 2 | Then , before she could reply at all , ‘ Which reminds me — how 's life as an artist 's model ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Here will be fine , ’ she said huskily , relieved she could speak at all . |
| 4 | ‘ That was very good of you , ’ whispered Isabel , rather surprised that she could speak at all . |
| 5 | Her ability to repeat what she heard was the only language task which she could perform at all well . |
| 6 | Or whether she could run at all ? |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd been asking why she 'd taken a clerical job when she 'd had an art training and she said it was all she could get at first but after a while she 'd managed to wangle this daytime class . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There were other confusions — he was vain , she could smile at that , and yet many times he seemed unaware of the effect his strong presence could have on others . |