Example sentences of "[adj] but [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt oddly cold and sick but bit her lip staunchly and gathered their cases together . |
| 2 | By the end of yesterday , having had half of the region 's press beating a path to her cage door in deepest East Cowton ( and a simultaneous announcement of her existence was being made in New York ) , she was feeling distinctly tired but kept her pecker up by chewing on a favourite piece of banana . |
| 3 | Elizabeth never married but used her spinsterhood as a diplomatic bate — Robert Dudley , the Earl of Leicester , was very close and , after his death , his stepson , the Earl of Essex , became close , but he was executed for treason when it was learned that he had entered into a conspiracy . |
| 4 | Lydia thought that the harm done to us all on being born was irreversible but held her tongue . |
| 5 | He knew the pathologist , a woman doctor who had once been young but found her work was ageing her fast . |