Example sentences of "she [verb] [to-vb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If the creditor takes adequate steps to inform her and reasonably supposes that she has an adequate comprehension of the obligations she is undertaking and an understanding of the effect of the transaction , the fact that she failed to grasp some material part of the document , or , indeed , the significance of what she was doing , can not , I think , in itself give her an equity to set aside , notwithstanding that at an earlier stage the creditor relied upon her husband to obtain her consent to enter into the obligation of surety . |
| 2 | He was the enemy , and at least this way she got to score some points ! |
| 3 | She asked to borrow some shears . |
| 4 | She bent to knock some snow from her bindings . |
| 5 | She wants to see some good old-fashioned special effects — wailings , writhings , ghastly visions and foamings at the mouth . |
| 6 | Now she wants to repay some of that help , but that is not the only reason for her unstinting charity work . |
| 7 | she wants to get some money |
| 8 | She tried to remember some poetry , any poetry about prisons . |
| 9 | She tried to remember some of her stories and put those in the Diary too . |
| 10 | I just hoped Karen would n't go any further , that she would n't get so drunk that she tried to mount some leering admirer who happened to step on her toe by mistake . |
| 11 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
| 12 | She counted to ten as she had been taught when about to deliver a big speech , but when she tried to force some words of outrage from between her teeth her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth and the most she could do was make a small cry of protest deep in her throat . |
| 13 | She was only in college the one year , less than a year if you — we just wondered if she tried to buy some here , that 's all , and that could be how she might have met the wrong kind of people . |
| 14 | As Ariel 's voice reached through the darkness that had walled up Sycorax in pain , she tried to recall some of the things she had once known ; she murmured and found that when she did so Ariel stopped singing , so she tried not to remember out loud , but to save the retrieved pieces inside her so that the low , scraping voice of the girl she loved would not be interrupted . |
| 15 | From there she hopped to the pond at the back of the school , for she felt sure that she could hide safely there in the weeds and rushes while she tried to find some solution to her appalling problem . |
| 16 | Firstly , she needs to carry some weight to maintain her power . |
| 17 | She was quite good with delinquent adolescents partly because she seemed to have some insight into the impulse that makes the young and the violent turn on the weak and the defenceless … |
| 18 | She seemed to think some kind of explanation was necessary . |
| 19 | She turned to express some of her thanks to him , but he was already out of the car and round by the passenger door opening it for her . |
| 20 | Donna rubbed both hands across her face , her body quivering as she began to regain some warmth , some feeling in her extremities . |
| 21 | Even so , most of it was so pointedly on target that she began to leave some of her cynicism aside . |
| 22 | She decided to do some scientific homework herself . |
| 23 | Oh , too bad , she decided to cook some new potatoes and they could take them or leave them . |
| 24 | She decided to make some changes and embarked on a quest which took her to , among other places , an ashram in Wales and a three-week ‘ Relationships Seminar ’ in Hawaii ( price $8,000 ) run by an American called Chuck Spezzano . |
| 25 | Despite her efforts to be helpful and well-behaved , Mildred had an uncanny knack of appearing to be the cause of any trouble which was occurring , and it must be admitted that there were occasions ( particularly when her rather wild imagination ran away with her ) when she managed to turn some peaceful event into a scene of total chaos . |
| 26 | In gale force winds , and weighed down by a camera around her neck , she just missed bringing us back a prize but she managed to capture some winning shots . |
| 27 | ‘ She went to visit some friends in the village . ’ |
| 28 | One day she left it on a table in the coffee bar for two minutes while she went to get some sugar . |
| 29 | It was some way from the lodging , and Paul 's attentions still made walking difficult ; it would not do to arrive dishevelled and swaying , and she had to use some of Mrs Gracie 's money on a cab . |
| 30 | She told Annie that she had to do some shopping , then doubled back and waited . |