Example sentences of "she could [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , and Isabel must know , must surely remember it , Isabel who had had such a well-developed , careful , private system for the storing , ordering , labelling , arrangement and organisation of things , whose books were in a certain line , so that she could tell you at once , and without ever having to get up , what sat next to what and where Lewis and Short or Cassell 's French-English would be found , were she to consent to your borrowing them because you had lost your own . |
| 2 | She could cow him at a glance . |
| 3 | By the time the train moved off she could see nothing at all out of the window , she could scarcely see the window , so many people were squeezed between her and it . |
| 4 | With a field of vision as limited as hers it was amazing that she could see anything at all . |
| 5 | She imagined she could hear it at her back , behind the house and the soft green swell of land that shielded it , could hear the breaking thud of the winter waves on the shore she had not yet seen . |
| 6 | 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 . |