Example sentences of "she could [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was lifted out of her perch above the engine and made for the customs shed where she asked for a mirror so that she could restore order to her wrecked coiffure before she went into Paris . |
| 2 | She located the air supply tap , pulled a tube from the back of her suit and plugged it into the tap : there was no point in using the suit 's air and batteries while she could draw air from the shuttle 's recyclers . |
| 3 | If Philip Leapor had earlier been hostile to his daughter 's poetry fearing it was unprofitable but then left her at liberty , it was probably because she had convinced him that she could earn money with her pen . |
| 4 | She had only to look at Mrs Jebeau 's face to see it ; in fact , she could smell trouble in that direction . |
| 5 | His mother the dowager Queen Isabella survived until 1358 and if she could transmit title to Edward III , why could not Jeanne of Navarre , Louis X 's daughter , or any of the daughters of Philip V do likewise ? |
| 6 | She was throwing a fit of screaming hysterics and every plate , cup , stool , cushion and knife she could set hand to . |
| 7 | She wished she could lay claim to a migraine but knew that Betty would not let her , that anyway even she could not be so mannerless as to absent herself from her own picnic , and that even if she did have a blinding migraine she would still have to go . |
| 8 | Finally , if Germany did become the true economic locomotive of Europe , then she could demand support from Europe if her economic strength ever began to falter , thus exploiting her weakness in the same way as she will exploit her strength . |
| 9 | Fen opened the bedroom door and she waited tensely for him to close it behind him and be gone , so that she could give vent to the misery that threatened to swamp her . |
| 10 | She concentrated on her driving and wished she could stop thinking of William . |
| 11 | But she could cut heather for a bed . |
| 12 | Juliet sat on her bed , wondering how she could get hold of the tissue-typing results — if they 'd come — without anyone being aware of who she was . |
| 13 | Reluctantly she decided she must see it through , for Peter , and in some way for herself — she had to prove to herself that she could come face to face with Marc again and survive the ordeal . |
| 14 | In that moment she was n't sure if she could fling decorum to the wind and beg him to make love to her again , right there , standing up in the blackness of Ghar Hasan . |
| 15 | This was fun ; with any luck she could say goodbye to facials , mud-packs and manicures . |
| 16 | Fabia was shaken , but was more intent then on finding out what she could do to help whatever the trouble was , than concerned that it looked as though she could say goodbye to her much looked forward to Czechoslovakian holiday . |
| 17 | The chance of Damien Gould helping her seemed unlikely in the extreme , unless she could apply pressure on him . |
| 18 | How did she know that she could find sanctuary in the familiar and the ordinary ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Chiang out of her cell , so that she could take part in the liberation . |
| 21 | Once she moved out , Pattie discovered that she could take care of herself and the baby and the sense of freedom was fantastic . |
| 22 | And , before she could fall victim to the tears of rage that threatened her , she stumbled past the startled girl towards the lift . |
| 23 | At the end she could see part of the ward , a gleaming parquet floor and white-painted bedsteads . |
| 24 | She could see part of Dewer Street through the half-open gate and it seemed to be deserted . |
| 25 | He nodded , his mouth a bitter line , but she could see acceptance in the way he bowed his dark head , and she felt deep compassion for him , for his wasted life and wasted efforts and wasted pain . |
| 26 | She could see fly across his face a whole sequence of emotions and responses . |
| 27 | She could see Dreamer through his insubstantial form . |
| 28 | She could see blood on Jack 's cheek and on his arm above the gloves . |
| 29 | She could hear conversation in the distance , and Sister 's voice — oh , no , Sister would be suspicious — |
| 30 | She could hear activity in the workrooms . |