Example sentences of "but she [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she finally relented and went out with her friends . |
| 2 | It took a long time , but she finally got the drunken figure out of the door and closed it firmly behind him . |
| 3 | But she finally revealed all on ITV 's The Time , The Place show . |
| 4 | But she finally decided to tell nobody . |
| 5 | She did n't mean to , but she finally came to terms with the lateness of the hour with a yawn ; it was already happening before she could stop it . |
| 6 | But she finally admitted that she had n't been in the ship at the time . |
| 7 | It might be part of her job to parade through the ballroom but she surely did n't want to have to prattle facts and figures for what she was wearing now , a skin-tight concoction of bugle heads and sequins that probably cost more than she 'd make for the entire year . |
| 8 | Mrs Thatcher yesterday had the honesty to admit that inflation is ‘ far too high ’ , but she no more deigned to explain what has gone wrong than the Chancellor had the day before . |
| 9 | Every day , she went to the Casa Guidi and collected any letters for the Brownings to redirect them to Rome but she no longer envied the recipients their voluminous correspondence . |
| 10 | The shouting was much nearer now , but she no longer heard it . |
| 11 | When at last it was over she lay back in a sleepy state , as a result of too much gin rather than weakness from the birthing , but she no longer felt like cursing James . |
| 12 | But she no longer treated him with the old irritable dismissiveness ; she knew of Edouard 's reputation as a businessman , and obviously had heard his abilities praised , for she now regarded him warily , as if trying to decide whether , after all , she might have been wrong , and her younger son might be of use to her . |
| 13 | She could not have explained it but she no longer even thought of herself as Joan Halidon — but as Joan de Warenne , protégée of the dowager-duchess of Norfolk . |
| 14 | Acquiring its contents had been the purpose of her outing , but she no longer cared about it . |
| 15 | She sometimes pulled herself into a corner of the cabin with Roukoubé across her knees on his stomach and patted out a tune softly as she rubbed his back after feeding him , but she no longer made up words : she had no more words , indeed it seemed to her she no longer owned a voice , but only a hollow drum for a head on which others beat their summons . |
| 16 | But she no longer had her hair ! |
| 17 | But she kindly held out her hand to me . |
| 18 | Dot did n't like the smell of old clothes nor of brick dust and escaping gas but she rarely wailed . |
| 19 | To accept them all would place an intolerable strain on her health , but she rarely fails to help a charity . |
| 20 | She found the marching pace tiring and her clothes would not be recommended for military training , but she rarely complained . |
| 21 | I do n't really know her breeding , but she clearly has some Arab in her and has a soft thin coat . |
| 22 | Like many of the parents , Rita readily agrees with the professional maxim that ‘ It 's natural to feel shocked ’ , but she clearly does not take this to be some scientific and objective concomitant of the situation , something in her genes . |
| 23 | From the pink frilly garment , Clara would have deduced that the baby must be a girl , but she clearly remembered that it was called James . |
| 24 | Because her talents lay in organization , personal inspiration , and a somewhat Wagnerian style of oratory , rather than in writing and analytical thought , it is difficult to pinpoint precisely the nature of her impact upon contemporaries , but she clearly inspired great personal devotion in both women and men . |
| 25 | She was thanked , but she already has the gratitude of scores of patients . |
| 26 | Cissie hated going to bed , and she hated getting up in the morning , but she thoroughly enjoyed lazing in the bath , and finding every excuse not to say goodnight . |
| 27 | Once again a very enjoyable evening , erm , I pushed into something that er , I do n't think she really wanted to do initially , but she thoroughly enjoyed it at the end . |
| 28 | She did n't really want him , of course but she simply had to prove to herself that he would prefer her to Sally , given the choice . |
| 29 | Harriet resented being offered a drink on her own doorstep , but she simply replied , ‘ Thank you . |
| 30 | A circumspect phone call to Sarah 's mother at this point usually reveals that the party is timed to end at 1am at the latest , that she is extremely sorry , but she simply does n't have room for all the children to stay and every other mother has already phoned . |