Example sentences of "she could [not/n't] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 2 | Although she could no longer bear to live with her father , she could not abandon mortgage payments . |
| 3 | ‘ I can only think she decided she could not marry Fabien after all , but could not bear to tell him so either . |
| 4 | I thought that now she belonged to me , she could not marry Fabien . ’ |
| 5 | She could not offer advice as a grandmother , despite her long experience of children ; and now her own children had ceased to confide in her ‘ because they felt that the time had come when I ought to be ‘ spared ’ every possible worry . |
| 6 | A CHARGE of rape on a mentally handicapped girl was dropped yesterday after a judge ruled she could not give evidence against her alleged attacker . |
| 7 | She could not speak French , she was quite weak and , worse still , she was a woman . |
| 8 | She could not stop crying . |
| 9 | The thought crept into the warmth and she trembled , afraid that this time she could not face rejection . |
| 10 | TRAGIC aerobics teacher Joanna Grenside faked her own dramatic kidnap because she could not face Christmas . |
| 11 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 12 | But she could not ask Lubor anything about the man who attracted her so . |
| 13 | Having got this joke out of the way , she was then told no she could not have money for food , but she could have cash for a carpet . |
| 14 | Is it not time that those pensioners , including the one who told me that she was keeping warm during the day by clutching a hot-water bottle because she could not afford heating bills , were given a decent state pension as of right , without the humiliation of a contributory test , which involves means-testing for those who are in greatest need ? |
| 15 | After a restless few hours ' sleep , Fabia awakened to daylight and the concrete knowledge that for her sister 's sake she could not accept defeat on that interview issue . |
| 16 | She could not see Finn 's neck for the hair . |
| 17 | But today , she could not take part , she pleaded illness , she invoked Caterina , who needed her at home , she said , for she was still poorly . |
| 18 | ( Who ever heard of a mother falling so ill she could not take care of her household , whereas everywhere there were men drunk , mad , gaoled , old , worn out-who had become as children again to their wives ? ) |
| 19 | She could n't visit Martyr 's Cottage again , that would be recklessly stupid . |
| 20 | But she could n't drink milk could she ? |
| 21 | Only thing she were n't chuffed about is she could n't cash cheque , it had to go all through bank and everything . |
| 22 | Most of all she could n't face Dane , could n't cope with the new pain that seeing him again must surely bring . |
| 23 | It was not that she could n't contemplate marriage to anyone other than Will . |
| 24 | She could n't stop crying , and then the pain came back and nagged at her , till she held her hands to her lower belly . |
| 25 | Carrie tried to mop up the mess with the edge of the table cloth and put a mat under the worst of it to stop the damp marking the table , but her hands seemed all thumbs and she could n't stop crying . |
| 26 | But she could n't stop thinking of David in his white coat , visiting the patients , touching them , and this was where her thoughts made her tingle all over , and she had to set her mind to something else . |
| 27 | Naylor thought Travis was her lover , and she could n't tell Naylor that he was n't — not without bringing in Rosemary across the corridor . |
| 28 | From now on , she knew , she could n't set foot wrong . |
| 29 | So she could n't rescue Elinor until she left Eastbourne General . |
| 30 | Why did people — males in particular — assume that just because she was young , blonde and female , she could n't handle pressure ? |