Example sentences of "she [verb] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | She asked for some answers to specific points . |
| 2 | Then she stoops for some pebbles and warns that I 'd better come in now . |
| 3 | She says for some reason he did n't come back for it . |
| 4 | ‘ I mean … ’ she strove for some kind of coherence ‘ … |
| 5 | However thirty-six hours before she died she telephoned for some of us to visit ; she knew we had all been worried and concerned but she had it all under control . |
| 6 | did she hesitate for some time before the answers ? |
| 7 | She thought for some time before saying : ‘ In some degree ’ puts it quite well . ’ |
| 8 | oh wow , she sent for some curtains |
| 9 | That might in itself imply that she felt for some reason that she would be suspected , or perhaps she knew who the killer was and preferred to keep quiet . |
| 10 | She waited for some minutes on a platform , a train came and she would have got into it if that had been possible . |
| 11 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 12 | ‘ Great , ’ she said for some inexplicable reason . |
| 13 | She longed for some proper clothes too — having to wear one of his large baggy T-shirts was doing nothing for her self-image . |
| 14 | Lord , how she longed for some such measure of security ! |
| 15 | Inwardly she longed for some sparkling revenge . |
| 16 | She longed for some excitement , some stimulation . |
| 17 | And , as soon as she had paid the driver and he had gone on his way she stood for some moments , looking at Ven 's house , photographing it in her mind 's eye because she knew — she would never come this way again . |