Example sentences of "she have [verb] for [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to wait for some time before the door was opened , and she hoped very much that it would be opened by Clelia , but it was not ; it was opened by a thin , brown , balding , youngish looking man . |
| 2 | Soon after their marriage , Margaret 's depression , which she had suffered for some time , immediately lifted . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | She had thought for some time that a mouse lived there . |