Example sentences of "but [pron] [adv] [verb] her [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I look at her , but she just shakes her head .
2 But she just turned her head and stared at Granny .
3 But she just shook her head and went back to her pouch-seat and Posi 's course-setting .
4 Anne had to leave for work for two o'clock but she proudly displayed her ring to her friends and they all sincerely wished her happiness .
5 But she still had her friend , and Aileen put her arm round Tildy .
6 But she still had her friend , and Aileen put her arm round Tildy .
7 Caterina had not really understood the argument ; but she now reconstituted her father 's impassioned argument for contracts .
8 Mam and Da wanted to know everything about Rosie 's life since they saw her last — where had she been , what had she done — but she only shook her head .
9 But she only gripped her bag more firmly .
10 Before they parted May told her friend she was going to the cinema but she never left her house again .
11 But she never uses her personality to gain a career advantage .
12 But she suddenly puckered her forehead .
13 But we never visit her shop and she knows why .
14 But Jezrael walked unevenly yet unharmed , because the watchers in the jet and neon ghetto saw her dangling arm but they also saw her face and the ire in it was barely leashed .
15 Helen Crane , an ex-secretary , valued her job because it not only gave her the experience of autonomy , but it publicly valued her exercise of this responsibility :
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