Example sentences of "[subord] she [verb] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , so she lost but that 's not important . |
| 2 | She sucked again from the tea-bulb , feeling its plastic smoothness dent as it emptied , knowing it came from a floating colony like she did but not knowing why it should be used on a steady-gravity planet like Mars . |
| 3 | I mean she can come in at two if she likes but erm bu if she 's gon na be out , I mean she can come in at quarter past five . |
| 4 | She was exhausting company , not because she argued but because there was a constant play of restless nervous energy in her . |
| 5 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
| 6 | She consorted , these nights , with strangers — men who were temporarily vivid when she awoke but who faded as the day progressed until , after a few hours , they vanished entirely . |
| 7 | I did as she said but they were two sizes too big for me ; they fitted better after she had packed the toes with scraps of wool . |
| 8 | Her heart rate has soared as she dances but the alcohol in her blood is gradually falling . |
| 9 | She blushed as she spoke but Bridie and Julia noticed nothing . |