Example sentences of "[adv] but [verb] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't like her much but wanted her to stay . |
| 2 | Dexter had met Helen Briggs only once but liked her straight away — the bubbling laugh , the enormous bosom , the trunk-like legs and , above all , the endless cigarettes that drooped from her finger . |
| 3 | Alexander served her well but failed her by not producing an heir when he married that French hussy . ’ |
| 4 | Move in there but let her stand |
| 5 | His impulse to clutch at her and lift her skirt and dabble with finger and thumb in her recesses led to a quick shame , and he was so appalled that he could not push her from him either but let her , still attached to his hand , mutter her compliments , in disjointed phrases falling pell mell . |
| 6 | She would have liked to sleep again but found she could not and so she had to get up . |
| 7 | Those books Thérèse read too but pretended she did n't because then she 'd have to go to confession about them and spell out exactly what she 'd thought . |