Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb pp] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has taken some point made by a friend whom she names — milia and develops it into a full essay . |
| 2 | I showed her my January AIM , then she announced it was just like going to art school : she has had some training . |
| 3 | I showed her my January AIM , then she announced it was just like going to art school : she has had some training . |
| 4 | She 'd done some TV before , but she 'd just left school , and had little knowledge of the working world and MEN . |
| 5 | Now she 'd done some training as a secretary — she 'd been to secretarial college . |
| 6 | Perhaps he ceased to be useful to her once she 'd had some success in England — I do n't know . |
| 7 | She 'd walked some distance , judging by her shoes , which were worn to pieces . |
| 8 | She 'd found some hawthorn berries on a bush and was chewing her way through one with every sign of enjoyment . |
| 9 | She 'd brought some desu , flat buckwheat bread that 's taken on journeys because it stays fresh for days , and some roasted amaranthus seeds in honey , wrapped in birch bark . |
| 10 | When she 'd regained some degree of composure , she asked , ‘ Have you had any further thoughts as to where Mamma 's ‘ appropriate ’ place might be ? ’ |
| 11 | She had drunk some punch . |
| 12 | Because of this she felt generous and said she had realised some time ago that a really beautiful man was very much more beautiful than the most beautiful woman , and was n't that interesting . |
| 13 | When she was released she had gained some weight , but it was fear of rehospitalisation rather than a true recovery that kept her from losing all the weight again . |
| 14 | She would open them after she had made some coffee . |
| 15 | Whether it was to share his moment of regret at the passing of time , or to express disillusion with Parkin himself — she had made some comment in the car about how he was one of the few television reporters she knew and respected — Dexter did not know . |
| 16 | Later we discovered she had hit some obstruction and lost an engine — hence her strange behaviour . |
| 17 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 18 | She wished she had worn some make-up , then chastised herself for such a feeble thought . |
| 19 | She had wanted some way of freeing herself from Gareth Davis and his demands and now , with no effort on her part , she was free of him for ever . |
| 20 | Sarah Fuller had complained that she had lost some money . |
| 21 | She said her name was Liz , she was a friend of the family , and she had done some nursing once , a long time ago , but gave it up to get married . |
| 22 | She had spent some time after breakfast standing on her balcony and looking out towards the mountains . |
| 23 | When she had recovered some composure , she covered his body with her shawl and sat down beside it with her children by her , hoping a neighbour would hear of her plight and come to help her . |
| 24 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 25 | Within two days she had found some information on the Prince 's Trust , which is a scheme set up by the Duke of Cornwall , HRH Prince Charles himself . |
| 26 | But this was untrue , for Minch had become quieter and more peaceful as the months had gone by , staring out over the Zoo with a mysterious tranquillity , as if she had found some contentment that eluded the others . |
| 27 | At one stage , she said she had experienced some conflict ‘ like being in two places at once ’ but soon realized that her real attachment was to her adoptive parents . |
| 28 | ‘ Even if she had stole some wine , ’ Rab said . |
| 29 | She had planted some runner beans in the patch of the old vegetable garden he had dug earlier ; they were flowering energetically and seemed to have been worth the trouble . |
| 30 | When Annunziata came to collect the tray , Julia asked her tentatively whether she had had some news . |