Example sentences of "she could [adv] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remark was tinged with the suggestion that she would like a witness , apart from Marshall whom she could reasonably assume to be biased in Wickham 's favour . |
| 2 | If she could just get to the phone box — The car cruised along at her speed . |
| 3 | Emmie thought she could probably go to sleep in less time than anyone else in the world . |
| 4 | Why was it the gorgeous ones passed through so fleetingly while others , like that paunchy , moist-palmed Vic Tatum from Marine Claims always managed to delay in her office , ogling , leering and making suggestive remarks that she could probably take to a Sexual Harassment Tribunal if she had a mind to ! |
| 5 | Patrick 's mother had died twenty years before in the County Donegal , trying to prove that she could still climb to the top of a mountain called Muckish . |
| 6 | Or perhaps she thought she could always pretend to be a relative and come and claim me from the hospital . |
| 7 | The knowledge of his affair still ate away at her , and it was knowing that she could never speak to him about the affair that hurt most . |
| 8 | There she found herself ensconced in a huge grey suede and chrome armchair , clutching a hefty measure of Scotch , and staring blankly around at what she could only assume to be the ‘ minimalist ’ style of interior decoration . |
| 9 | The lights upstairs were still on ; if she could only get to a window she might be able to see what the men outside were doing . |
| 10 | Nothing had changed , except she could now admit to her love . |
| 11 | One woman , remarking on ‘ how wonderful it was , with what faith the Führer spoke ’ , was reported as saying it took just such a speech to show ‘ how faint-hearted one had become through the routine of everyday life ’ , and that she could now look to the future with confidence again . |
| 12 | Then she turned her attention back to Luke 's lecture , confident that she could now listen to the once-hated voice without a pang . |
| 13 | So she gazed and her finger traced the outlines of nymphs — thinner , higher cheek-boned than she could ever hope to be , garlanded with flowers , stepping barefoot through the forest ; and sometimes she saw an exhausted Venus , a hand below her belly , lying in a countryside where oxen were driven and ships set sail on uncharted seas . |
| 14 | She could hardly bear to be contradicted , and no good mother , in my mother 's view , would send her child to stay with a daft person . |
| 15 | She was a wreck and had planned to go and do something about it once dinner had been prepared , but now that would have to go by the board — there would be no time — and , besides , she could hardly appear to Luke 's business partner and his wife in one of Luke 's towelling robes , could she ? |