Example sentences of "she could [not/n't] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A STUDENT , Sarah Molyneux , hanged herself because she could not make friends during her first term at university , an inquest was told yesterday . |
| 2 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 3 | She had never thought that she would ever travel on such a thing , although she could not tell Rose that . |
| 4 | Although she could no longer bear to live with her father , she could not abandon mortgage payments . |
| 5 | ‘ I can only think she decided she could not marry Fabien after all , but could not bear to tell him so either . |
| 6 | I thought that now she belonged to me , she could not marry Fabien . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She could not speak French , she was quite weak and , worse still , she was a woman . |
| 10 | Breeze turned to her sister , realizing that she could not shield Roger much longer . |
| 11 | But even she could not manage Firelight , which brought him back again and again to the anchor-stone that Firelight had become in his life , which fact he would admit to no one and , in fact , had difficulty in accepting himself . |
| 12 | She could not stop crying . |
| 13 | Tess now felt she could not stop things happening , and agreed passively to whatever Angel suggested . |
| 14 | Some tourists were booking in , she could not detain Edouard longer . |
| 15 | She could not lead Liza 's life for her . |
| 16 | No , she could not picture Hugh Puddephat as the adolescent father of an illegitimate son . |
| 17 | The thought crept into the warmth and she trembled , afraid that this time she could not face rejection . |
| 18 | TRAGIC aerobics teacher Joanna Grenside faked her own dramatic kidnap because she could not face Christmas . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But she could not ask Lubor anything about the man who attracted her so . |
| 21 | She could not ask Rachel to help her . |
| 22 | But somehow she could not imagine Francie putting his eye to the keyhole , even only once , just to see her without her knickers — his back was too stiff , his neck too rigid . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Her father had a chronic heart condition as a result of which Pamela had come to feel that she could not discuss problems with him . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | Margaret Geeson , the nurse in charge of the Grantham and Kesteven Hospital children 's ward that day , said she could not remember Allitt ever informing her of the incident . |
| 27 | She could not let Luke see how frightened she was . |
| 28 | June described the depth of her frustration when she could not get Robert to respond to her words . |
| 29 | If she could not find Charles in the hotel , she would be obliged to seek him within the conference building . |
| 30 | She could not find words to convey what she had seen , any more than she could say aloud " Pee-Po … " and the rest . |