Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had dressed with some care . |
| 2 | He had realised it before she had , and somehow the sympathy that had been briefly in those blue eyes , that she had mistaken for some sort of liking , was far more disturbing than his hard , cool look . |
| 3 | Soon after their marriage , Margaret 's depression , which she had suffered for some time , immediately lifted . |
| 4 | He was so convinced that she was , he just assumed she had stayed with some girlfriend to try to make him jealous . |
| 5 | From some dim recess of her mind came the words of a Breton fisherman 's prayer , which she had read in some book . |
| 6 | Armed at all points against the possible disappointments of her life , conscious of the responsibilities of protecting her mother and sister , worried at the gaps in her education , anxious about nuns and antique dealers , she had forgotten for some time the necessity for personal happiness . |
| 7 | She had expected for some reason a warm and well-fleshed figure , dressed in tweeds saturated in the comforting perfume of unsmoked tobacco . |
| 8 | Obviously she had walked into some sort of a secret and Felipe was not at all amused by the fact . |
| 9 | By the following morning she had recovered to some extent from the unusual happenings in her normally well ordered life . |
| 10 | Her ball gown was an old grey dress which she had prettified with some lengths of Brussels lace . |
| 11 | And it was n't Iris who told us , though she had known for some time that it had come through the Strait shortly after the Belgrano had been sunk . |
| 12 | ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life . |
| 13 | She had thought for some time that a mouse lived there . |
| 14 | Susan 's arm was so painful next morning and looked so inflamed that Breeze , as soon as she had foraged for some breakfast , went down to the village to find the doctor . |
| 15 | She had changed into some clothes brought for her by a clerk who had been sent out with a handful of roubles to a nearby shop . |