Example sentences of "[adv prt] but she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big bag they had brought for the goose caught between her legs and almost threw her down but she recovered her balance , her feet slipping and sliding . |
| 2 | Her voice almost let her down but she persevered . |
| 3 | A credit card with her name on it finally got her in but she left in a huff 30 minutes later . |
| 4 | She was dimly aware of Mrs Longhill running in but she brushed past her and flew upstairs to her bedroom . |
| 5 | ‘ From my point of view it was like a child climbing up on a wall to look in but she rushed back and said : ‘ No , I ca n't do it , ’ and started crying in my arms . |
| 6 | Miss Coltman said Paula told her Sandra was due to move in but she put her foot down . |
| 7 | At the house he invited Rose in but she refused with the excuse that it was too late . |
| 8 | Her rolled-up handkerchief was already soaked through but she went on twisting it round and round in her fingers and dabbing at her wet face . |
| 9 | She was shaking all over but she held her ground . |
| 10 | Lisa had given him the choice of staying with her , or going off but she insisted he decide then as she did n't want him leaving in the middle of it all . |
| 11 | When she tackled him in the wood , he produced the gun to frighten her off but she wrested it from him and shot him . |
| 12 | Desperately she pressed on but she knew with an awful certainty that he would vanish before she got there . |
| 13 | she 'd gone for a couple of days when she was up but she says she has n't been up to see her for about eighteen months ! |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , yes , she had her hood up but she turned and shouted back at us . ’ |
| 15 | She could n't have said nothing to our if she did I should have thought well alright our nan said I must bloody go up but she did n't come up Sunday . |
| 16 | She said the public may conclude the offenders deserve to be locked up but she considered it inappropiate because of their age . |
| 17 | She said the public may conclude the offenders deserve to be locked up but she considered it inappropiate because of their age . |
| 18 | He was beside her holding her up but she pushed him away . |
| 19 | Miss Dalzell was out but she says the bedsit was not properly equipped . |
| 20 | She thought she 'd bailed him out but she had n't and er she said she went down she said aye like , you know , |
| 21 | Like get back the dustbins which took them out but she did n't bring them back at the end of the drive erm and I hope that Paul tells him off ! |
| 22 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 23 | She did n't want Georg back but she wanted to hurt him the way Gesner had hurt her . |
| 24 | Now that her ankle was better she should really go back and chase up on the calls Steve should have made in Palma so that it was all tied up when he got back but she did n't want to spoil it all with Fernando . |
| 25 | Hardly a day went by but she saw some lass or other picked up by them snots . |
| 26 | Not a day went by but she saw Anthony 's face , and superimposed on it the face of Stavros , smirking slightly as he had been in the cemetery . |
| 27 | Her girlfriends , particularly her former flatmates , would have rallied round but she did not feel that she could inflict them with such a burden of responsibility . |