Example sentences of "but [adv] she [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went steadily on , from foothold to foothold , only stopping to peel off her glove now and then and push a finger into the wet fringed mouth of a sea-anemone , but mostly she concentrated on the next step , the next handhold , with the sea on one side of her , the swell of grassy land the other . |
| 2 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 3 | Carrie was good at stories but sometimes she stopped in the middle and had to be prodded . |
| 4 | But then she dropped into the makeup chair , all of the steam going out of her . |
| 5 | But then she seemed in the end she she picked it up . |
| 6 | Alexandra thought of calling her back , explaining that Mrs Chamberlin might regret her kind invitation to dine with them on Christmas Day if Alexandra were to upstage the Rectory family in such a way , but then she reflected on the goodness of Mrs Chamberlin 's heart and the necessity of living up to at least some of Lyddy 's expectations of her . |