Example sentences of "but she [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 But she clung on to the post , her body sinking to the floor , oblivious to the groans that issued from her own throat , and the words that formed on her lips .
2 He claims he only pushed her away but she fell back onto the knife .
3 Either it was the brandy or it was the heat , but she went out like a light .
4 She was not particularly hungry , but she went down to the hotel 's dining-room around eight that evening , then returned to her room to spend a fitful night .
5 But she went down like a sack of spuds and cracked her head open .
6 He insisted on walking her home but she ran off at the corner .
7 At first her father had tried persuasion , but she was intransigent : brute force , but she ran back to the woods the moment she could : custodial restraint , but he could not bear the sight and sound of her pining .
8 But she looked down through the glass skylight and recognised in Maggie 's cropped hair and long white body the same contours that she had seen in that other virgin warrior whom she had inspired into battle .
9 ‘ An officer signalled for her to stop but she carried on for a mile and mounted the kerb on one occasion , ’ Tony Malyon , prosecuting , told Pontypool magistrates .
10 He tried to do it now , but she dodged back into a corner .
11 I know that when I had my children I 'd have loved my mother to be there but she missed out on the pleasure because of hospital policy .
12 He tried to slap Jeane Russell with his left hand , but she backed out of the way and just laughed at him .
13 When she first came she ate so much so often that I thought she had worms , but she settled down to a very moderate appetite , so the worming tablet the vet .
14 Oh , I said to him look I said she obviously a person that takes no notice , but she lives out in the country .
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