Example sentences of "she [verb] some " in BNC.

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1 Ronni wondered , as she flung some T-shirts and things into a bag , if she ought to have put up a stronger fight against Guido .
2 She met some guy in there that day , some guy she used to go with , and he must 've said something because the next thing anyone knew , she was screaming at him , Pete was in the bar the morning after , he said the window was all over the floor , apparently she 'd thrown an ashtray at the guy and it had missed and taken the whole window out instead , and when he took her by the arm and tried to calm her down , she shook him off and ran out of the bar , right out in the street , and like I said , it was the bottom of a hill and there was a truck coming — ‘
3 When Christine Osborne travelled 4,348 kilometers across Australia on the Indian-Pacific she met some down-to-earth characters and had the opportunity to see some of the country 's most remote mining centres .
4 This writing was discovered by her ; she read some material before her visit , which prepared her a little for what she would see .
5 She read some verses and not others , understood some lines and not others , and stopped at every mention of angels or children or weeping or suffering .
6 She read some more books , wrote some more essays , passed some exams .
7 Her eyes appraised him and her thin fingers were spread towards him fan-wise , it was clear she expected some money .
8 She expected some fury but none was forthcoming and she glanced across at him to find his eyes were fixed on the mountains , his face sombre .
9 If the sociologist is present at the moment of speech-production , whether as observer or interviewer , then he or she plays some part in the creation of the dialogue .
10 Unbeknown to me , she made some enquiries , and then one Friday , while I was sitting in the coffee shop having a quiet read of a newspaper someone had left , she appeared by my side .
11 Finally she made some grunts and said : ‘ Globol obol ookle ogle globol gloogle gloo . ’ )
12 She made some coffee .
13 She made some weak excuse when she telephoned to break the appointment , but she knew perfectly well that she was apprehensive about going out in case the weather changed and it began to rain .
14 As soon as he had driven Liz Spalding to her small apartment , where she made some basic changes to her appearance , and grabbed a bite to eat , Bodie took her to Linda 's school .
15 Judge Huff declared that the court would not allow the application by Sotheby 's to be discharged from the action and in the process she made some critical and revealing remarks about the auction house 's role in the whole affair , which we reproduce below .
16 She told us that she made some toast , but not that she ate it .
17 The Queen of Hearts , she made some tarts ,
18 She made some fast telephone calls and fled to Paris .
19 She made some kind of gesture .
20 She made some tea , she told me afterwards and stayed and stayed and stayed and he lived at Prindon and his mother was very very deaf and my mother got worried because he was going away the next day and she said to him , Len do n't you think you ought to spend the evening with your mother and he said , yes , I 'll go now and he ran off and he ran back again and he said , you do n't mind if I write to Ivy do you ?
21 She made some squeaky noises with her mouth .
22 " Her income has been dwindling , " Jenny said , " and then she made some bad investments .
23 She made some coffee , and went out on the balcony in her cotton housecoat , where she could see the sun rising from behind the dark hills , and the slopes slowly become bathed with light .
24 She made some comment about his lips and she asked : ‘ Is he dead ? ’ ' said Mr Goldring .
25 She lived some 500 years ago in the times of King Henry VIIIth and Queen Elizabeth 1st .
26 She sits some way off , and waits for death .
27 In a solo presentation she offers some of her latest observations .
28 Perhaps she sought some prolongation of that feeling of joy and unity and excitement , the festival holiday feeling , the warm inclusion , yes , even being embraced by those formidable satiny bosoms and kissing the soft powdery cheeks of the old women , had made her feel part of it all .
29 Greece had hoped for a more favourable frontier with Turkey ; she got some of what she wanted in 1881 .
30 And w er did sh you said she got some work , what what job did she do then to help ?
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