Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same , she badly needed some air and solitude , so she stepped out to the veranda , closed the door silently behind her , slipped off her high heels and held them in one hand , then padded on silent stockinged feet down the back stairs and into the garden . |
| 2 | Either therefore I am being non-cooperative or I intend to convey something rather different : ( 34 ) Queen Victoria was made of iron The straightforward interpretation is that since Queen Victoria in fact lacked the definitional properties of iron , she merely had some of the incidental properties like hardness , resilience , non-flexibility or durability . |
| 3 | She finally arrived some twenty minutes later looking so cold and miserable that Mary Ann ordered her straight up for a bath , before she caught her ‘ death ’ . |
| 4 | She desperately needed some time alone to think . |
| 5 | She just wanted some huge natural catastrophe to sweep through the bedroom and miraculously carry her two hundred thousand miles away . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm coming — I 'm coming ! ’ she shouted back , wishing there were a key to the door as she quickly applied some light make-up . |
| 7 | And although the old woman 's premonition was an unhappy one and mention of Daniel caused her an immediate spear of pain , she nevertheless felt purged ; she always felt some elation after being in the company of the story-teller . |
| 8 | Then she pretended to be a mute — she always invented some oddness about herself when consorting with the preening rich boys of the city . |
| 9 | She always had some piece of sewing stuck in her belt while she cooked . |
| 10 | He suspected she 'd shoplifted it , as she usually had some small item in a plastic bag , too . |
| 11 | She lives in a large , sunny and specially adapted local authority bungalow in Northampton : the walls of the living room are decorated with her paintings ( done when she still had some use of her right hand ) and her kitchen cupboard is covered with postcards , love letters from old boyfriends and local newspaper articles . |
| 12 | She still had some of her holiday left so she decided to go via America and visit some of her former colleagues en route . |
| 13 | By Friday she had arranged everything to Rob 's satisfaction , although as she handed Luke his notes for the meeting in York she still had some reservations about his reaction to his brother 's methods of expressing gratitude . |
| 14 | Mrs Durbeyfield had booked rooms there , as it was the family home of the d'Urbervilles , and she still hoped some good would come of belonging to the ancient family . |
| 15 | Looking after so many children had aged Joan Durbeyfield , but she still showed some of her early prettiness , which Tess had inherited . |
| 16 | At 5 p.m. a staff nurse joined Miss T. and her mother and Miss T. told the staff nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she used to be a Jehovah 's Witness and that she still maintained some beliefs . |
| 17 | They became friends and under the nick-name ‘ Basle ’ she later received some of Mozart 's most notorious letters ( 24 ) . |
| 18 | She also heard some hot gospel music — and liked it so much she asked for more . |
| 19 | She also had some concern as to whether in eight week Alan might develop a taste for the alcohol , the chocolate , and even the cigarettes ! |
| 20 | And this women gives talks and demonstrations or courses and she also had some other courses on paper quilling , gift wrapping and bow making , cracker making and patch work . |
| 21 | She also spent some time in her home country , Romania , which she left 20 years ago to live in the United States . |
| 22 | She also created some mixed-sex pairs to begin to address the tendency to self-select into single-sex groups . |
| 23 | She also provided some herbal oil with which I was to massage Jean-Claude 's limbs . |
| 24 | She also found some differences between the male and female students ; the women were more egalitarian , public-minded and humane than men , and she suggests that |
| 25 | She would just lie awake half the night with her conscience pricking guiltily , and that would be a nuisance , because she really needed some sleep . |
| 26 | She saw that he had changed colour , and , always affected by other people 's feelings , she now experienced some of his embarrassment and wished she had not put him in this position . |
| 27 | Glancing down the columns , she immediately discovered some new information : Puddephat had been accompanied at the inquest by his wife , she learned with surprise . |