Example sentences of "[be] [adj] but she [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 Such feelings are understandable but she must not be allowed to brood on them .
2 I always find I say to Kim you know I mean you have all these you know it 's like Shaun 's giving up he 's giving up his karate and his football and I said well you know I 'm sorry but she should n't have let him .
3 She wo n't be comfortable but she 'll be properly fed and cared for .
4 Her legs were weak but she could walk .
5 Many of her ideas were innovative but she could convince those in authority of their value , and carry them through .
6 She 's gon na have to one of these , I 'm not being funny but she ca n't stick up for herself , that girl ca n't .
7 Melanie tried to grasp how dreadful it would be if Finn were dead but she could not think coherently because of the terrible sound of Aunt Margaret 's silence .
8 At his mother 's anxious look , he continued , ‘ I think all 's well but she 'd like you there , an' all . ’
9 Getting the zip fastener together is difficult but she will be able to zip up much more easily if you attach a key ring to the zipper .
10 That 's a conditional gift divorce makes it that that gift is revoked but she may still survive therefore the condition would apply and therefore the subsequent er provisions that you 've made in a will do n't apply because they can only apply if the wife survives twenty eight days but that 's ignored !
11 Sir , to do summat to do like she was paralysed but she could still feel the pain ?
12 The voice was familiar but she could n't place it .
13 Daddy said she was crazy but she would n't listen .
14 Kathleen was kind but she would not bring herself to visit and Dorothea knew she ought not to have asked .
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