Example sentences of "she could [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wore a wedding ring , but she could surely never have had any children of her own . |
| 2 | That mean she could no longer counter-sign company cheques . |
| 3 | She had reached the Fifth Level , and she could no longer go back . |
| 4 | But Mr Landor advanced upon her , step by step and because she could no longer bear to look at him and because his distorted face seemed to merge with the angel 's she turned to dash for the door . |
| 5 | Although she could no longer bear to live with her father , she could not abandon mortgage payments . |
| 6 | ‘ Benedict ! ’ she called out after him , her voice rampant with the passion she could no longer control . |
| 7 | Then Shiona had preferred to deny the evidence of her eyes , but this time she could no longer do so . |
| 8 | Yet by 1982 it was clear to Laura that if she wanted to see the exciting results of her latest researches used in people 's homes , she could no longer rely on her traditional customers . |
| 9 | Mrs Ware telephoned me five weeks after her husband died saying that she felt her children should be taken into care and she should be hospitalized because she could no longer cope . |
| 10 | A TRAGIC pensioner hanged herself because she could no longer cope with the pain of her illness , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 11 | Much as she deserved to travel the world with people of her own social standing , she could no longer hope to do so with a happy hear and a clear conscience . |
| 12 | It was little more than a whisper as Gina flinched from the anguish on his drawn face , every instinct telling her he was speaking the truth , and that Lotta 's cruel fabrication had been just that — a compilation of lies in order to destroy what she could no longer possess . |
| 13 | She could no longer admire or respect them . |
| 14 | But as the months became years she could no longer hide her feelings . |
| 15 | She could no longer hide from the truth she had faced yesterday . |
| 16 | ( However , in this particular case , Mrs Hohne 's transfer to the new premises resulted in both her status and pay being reduced as she could no longer hold the post of manageress because there already was a person in this position in the new premises . |
| 17 | Or so terrified of what she knew she could no longer hold back ? |
| 18 | If she truly loved someone , she could not be indifferent to the fate of other people , because her beloved would be dependent on that fate , he would be part of it , and she could no longer feel that mankind 's torments , its wars and holidays , were none of her concern . |
| 19 | She could no longer feel her feet , but , glancing down at them , not too obviously for fear Richard should feel that he ought to do something about them , she saw that both of them were now bleeding . |
| 20 | She could no longer feel her legs . |
| 21 | During the first days of that Holy Week Mrs Abigail continued to believe that she could not endure a marriage that was a travesty , and that she could no longer endure life in Dynmouth . |
| 22 | There was the frightening sensation of being sucked into an invisible vortex , some dark cavern of the senses where she could no longer stand back and resist , where she could only feel … |
| 23 | Dropping to her knees , as if she could no longer stand on her trembling legs , and heedless of the new peach gown and the pretty fawn pelisse she had bought that covered it , Theda set down her candle on the floor with quivering fingers , and covered her face with her hands . |
| 24 | When her company offered her employment at new premises she could no longer walk to work but would have had to undergo a half-hour bus journey . |
| 25 | But now , with her fires so stoked that she could no longer contain them , her messages were confused . |
| 26 | She could no longer bring to the man she loved her untouched innocence , and , worse than that , she could not bear his lovemaking because it reminded her so bitterly of what had been done to her . |
| 27 | She could no longer identify her own Englishness — it was lost under the thick veneer of assumed Italian ways and manners . |
| 28 | She found the conversation embarrassing and wondered if the time had come when she could no longer avoid asking him to come and see her new house . |
| 29 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 30 | After an intensive rehabilitation programme of physiotherapy and speech therapy , Elinor appeared to have completely recovered from her stroke , although she could no longer think of three things at once , which Buzz said was a mercy for the people who had to live with her . |