Example sentences of "but [adv] [subord] she [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She strode towards them , her fist upraised — but just before she pounded on it , she hesitated . |
| 2 | Candy 's reaction had afforded her a certain degree of comfort at the time , but now as she sat in the dressing-room , she was aware of a strange hollowness deep in the pit of her stomach . |
| 3 | Usually the familiar beauty of this place had the very opposite effect on her , but today as she headed towards Loch Lomond she was filled with a terrible sense of doom . |
| 4 | But even while she joked with him , she remembered those other nurses who had worked with him . |
| 5 | But even as she thought about its different feel of smooth dryness instead of stinging dampness , she suspected she had not felt a swab on her brow at all . |
| 6 | Surely the news could n't travel so fast ; but even as she emerged from the restaurant , the night manager was hovering in the foyer with a vague , Oh-shit-don't-tell-me look on his face . |
| 7 | ‘ She was out of the oxygen tent earlier- and her temperature was coming down with the antibiotics but then when she came to … she opened her eyes and suddenly seemed to go into a panic . |