Example sentences of "she had sometimes " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt a twinge of guilt , knowing that she had sometimes wondered whether or not Hilary 's ill-health was an excuse invented by Tamar , because her visits were so infrequent . |
| 2 | The American poet Marianne Moore said that she had sometimes to send a piece of work to forty different magazines before it was finally accepted . |
| 3 | Since then she had sometimes looked for the moon again in that dark , usually empty space but had never seen it . |
| 4 | Eventually , she overcame her fear — with other schoolchildren she had sometimes ganged up to cry ‘ witch ’ at Kitty , delighted when she ran after them , gleefully scudding away like infant demons scattered by Beelzebub . |
| 5 | But occasionally she stared back at him and then up again , as she had sometimes before , except that this time , with the sense of crisis and danger hanging over the Cages , it seemed there was something urgent about her stance and her stares . |
| 6 | She had sometimes called to find him absent and his mother 's explanation , when she deigned to give one , unconvincing . |
| 7 | Grainne had sometimes wanted to renounce Tara , she had sometimes wanted to forsake the Throne and flee to obscurity , but this was a creature who had renounced the world without even knowing it . |
| 8 | When she was younger and thoroughly impatient with her mother she had sometimes entertained a fantasy that Constance would kidnap her and take her away to live with the gipsies : now she felt that she might not have liked it as much as she thought . |
| 9 | Through the years she had sometimes half dreamed of it . |
| 10 | Thrilled by the beauty of the scene , she had sometimes felt a twinge of envy for the people on board . |
| 11 | She had sometimes longed for the anonymity of London , and now felt doubly guilty for the thought . |
| 12 | She thought of the dream she had sometimes in which she was leaning over a bridge and watching herself drown , watching herself slip down under the clear water and not giving a damn . |
| 13 | The disapproval she had sometimes sensed from him , and that had bothered her fleetingly from time to time , had erupted into a torrent of burning hatred at the discovery that , in spite of the fortune his father had showered on him , Ryan had died in a state of virtual penury . |