Example sentences of "she could [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides being the sun 's foster-mother , Mokosh could foretell the future , and she could change herself into any form she pleased , bird or fish or snake of the swamp . |
| 2 | A cell awaited her , and certain death — unless she could throw herself on the Queen 's mercy . |
| 3 | She could busy herself in the garden till then . |
| 4 | It had taken her four years to get over him ; four years to get to the point where she could tell herself with some conviction that she had shaken off the last of the memories and was really ready to get on with her life . |
| 5 | In silence they walked to the communal oven , and back , and she almost ran with the tray steaming with fragrant tomato and garlic to try to alert Rosa so she could prepare herself for his appearance . |
| 6 | Here , in her world , an icy wind was gathering force and malice , preparing to freeze the path beneath her feet , aim fierce arrows of hail and sleet at her cringing back , bury her — unless she could drag herself up St Jude 's Hill fast enough — in snow . |
| 7 | She could give herself to him . |
| 8 | By early habit she was a countrywoman , she could orientate herself by barely visible bulks and air currents and scents in the night , and she was not afraid to trust her feet in the irregularities of an unknown path . |
| 9 | As she danced she could lose herself in the movement . |
| 10 | She could lose herself in a place like this ; if not in the valley itself , then in some other part of the region . |
| 11 | He had the passenger door open before she could free herself from the seatbelt . |
| 12 | Still , she could console herself with the knowledge that Luke , and all his complexities , would n't be impinging upon her life for much longer . |
| 13 | She tended to be over-indulgent with Victoria , partly because she could see herself in the child and partly too , in some perverse fashion , to make up for what she considered to be her own harsh upbringing under Jonadab 's strict rules . |
| 14 | And if the man were as confident of getting away with MacQuillan 's murder as Wickham believed him to be , she could put herself at risk . |
| 15 | Then her subtly coloured eyelids swept shut , blindness an instinctive need , as if by shutting Luke out of her vision she could barricade herself against the swoop of his mouth . |