Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 It went pop , and Signe leaned forward into the candlelight so that all the customers could see her , and sipped at the champagne and narrowed her eyes at me in a gesture of passion that she had seen in some bad film .
2 She had dressed with some care .
3 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 .
4 Soon after their marriage , Margaret 's depression , which she had suffered for some time , immediately lifted .
5 He was so convinced that she was , he just assumed she had stayed with some girlfriend to try to make him jealous .
6 From some dim recess of her mind came the words of a Breton fisherman 's prayer , which she had read in some book .
7 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 .
8 She had expected for some reason a warm and well-fleshed figure , dressed in tweeds saturated in the comforting perfume of unsmoked tobacco .
9 Obviously she had walked into some sort of a secret and Felipe was not at all amused by the fact .
10 It was not that she had signed under some induced misapprehension as to the nature or character of what she was signing .
11 By the following morning she had recovered to some extent from the unusual happenings in her normally well ordered life .
12 Her ball gown was an old grey dress which she had prettified with some lengths of Brussels lace .
13 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 .
14 ‘ 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 .
15 She had thought for some time that a mouse lived there .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 She came in bubbling with excitement ; all evening she had brimmed with some secret mirth .
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