Example sentences of "she had some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She had some ability to read , but almost no comprehension of spoken or written words .
2 At least this time she had some help loading them into the van .
3 Seeing her sister 's tearstained cheeks and George 's flushed face , she had some idea of the scene which she had interrupted .
4 She had some idea that you should never wake a sleep-walker .
5 ‘ I think she had some idea , that 's why she chose the gynae clinic .
6 Last summer she had some kind of shock — nobody knows what .
7 She dared fantasise , for just a moment , that she had some kind of family again , perhaps with Leila as a surrogate mother , the three of them heading for the stars .
8 She had some kind of a mid-European accent .
9 Would it now get about that Mrs Markham was a little peculiar or , worse still , that she had some assignation ?
10 Besides , she had some shopping to do .
11 She finished at the college at one but she had some shopping to do . ’
12 aye , she said she had some chicken
13 She was very lonely , though she had some friends and visits from relatives from time to time .
14 If it does n't happen this year it 'll happen next spring you see , and of course er one lady who had been with her aunty er over in the Germany , she says when they went into , she knew they were accumulating theirs , she had some friends in Germany and of course they , she said they were hoarding up just at the borders of Poland I think it would be then .
15 She had some tiles to paint , but they could be done tomorrow .
16 She had some ketoacidosis and responded to conventional treatment .
17 Surely she had some defence against the tantalising assault he was wreaking on her senses ?
18 She had lost her handbag somewhere , but her wallet was still in her inside jacket pocket , and she had some make-up things in her coat .
19 I know Mother would have liked it because she had some experience of one when she was living with Aunt Bessie , over in Stainmore .
20 Apart from the very real administrative achievements of her reign she had some grasp of the advantages of giving the nobility , the townsfolk and even the state peasants an improved status as efficient and creative autonomous groups within Russian society ( see pp. 51–2 ) .
21 She had some things to do : that 's what she said . ’
22 No , but she had some credit cards , I thought .
23 She had some difficulty enunciating the name .
24 She told him that as soon as she had some money she wanted to buy some decent clothes , the kind that she could wear to her work in the evenings .
25 She 'd go shopping , now that she had some money , or go to see places that she 'd heard of .
26 She had some money — not much .
27 One lass went down and she had some glass or something , and she was threatening to slash her wrists and there was a screw shouting , ‘ Well do it .
28 And in the pitch black , it seemed she had some sort of body after all ; distantly she could sense hands feeling their way , feet stumbling .
29 ‘ The letters show beyond doubt that Daphne had an affair with Gertrude Lawrence ( the American actress ) , that she was passionately in love with the wife of her American publisher but that it was n't consummated , and that she had some sort of an affair with her French teacher when young . ’
30 She had some words of reproach for Mrs Kinnock too .
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