Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb pp] for some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geoff Tulloch got hold of the idea that she 'd worked for some corporation in Detroit for a year . |
| 2 | He had realised it before she had , and somehow the sympathy that had been briefly in those blue eyes , that she had mistaken for some sort of liking , was far more disturbing than his hard , cool look . |
| 3 | Soon after their marriage , Margaret 's depression , which she had suffered for some time , immediately lifted . |
| 4 | Armed at all points against the possible disappointments of her life , conscious of the responsibilities of protecting her mother and sister , worried at the gaps in her education , anxious about nuns and antique dealers , she had forgotten for some time the necessity for personal happiness . |
| 5 | She had expected for some reason a warm and well-fleshed figure , dressed in tweeds saturated in the comforting perfume of unsmoked tobacco . |
| 6 | And it was n't Iris who told us , though she had known for some time that it had come through the Strait shortly after the Belgrano had been sunk . |
| 7 | ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life . |
| 8 | She had thought for some time that a mouse lived there . |
| 9 | Susan 's arm was so painful next morning and looked so inflamed that Breeze , as soon as she had foraged for some breakfast , went down to the village to find the doctor . |