Example sentences of "but [pron] [adv] [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hair was splendidly awry because of the lead curling strips which , when removed , would leave her with a glorious gold-bright halo , but which now gave her angry face the fierce and tangled aspect of a Greek Fury . |
| 2 | ‘ What are yer waitin' for ? ’ he asked her , but she just shrugged her shoulders and held out her hands . |
| 3 | I look at her , but she just shakes her head . |
| 4 | But she just turned her head and stared at Granny . |
| 5 | But she just shook her head and went back to her pouch-seat and Posi 's course-setting . |
| 6 | But she later told her parents the boys had raped her and they were quizzed by police for several days before the girl confessed to lying . |
| 7 | Her speech is not easy to understand but she effectively communicates her complete approval and enjoyment of the busy week when she went away . |
| 8 | Anne had to leave for work for two o'clock but she proudly displayed her ring to her friends and they all sincerely wished her happiness . |
| 9 | Maggie 's sobs were becoming more natural , but she still had her arms tight round Phoebe 's neck and her head pressed against Phoebe 's breast and her voice was muffled . |
| 10 | The queen dowager might no longer be regent , in Protestant eyes , but she still had her French troops and stalemate continued . |
| 11 | But she still had her friend , and Aileen put her arm round Tildy . |
| 12 | But she still had her friend , and Aileen put her arm round Tildy . |
| 13 | But she still had her eyes hidden against seeing her father thrown across the stage . |
| 14 | She had lived in the States for several years but she still retained her British accent , though she often maintained that she loathed England and would never return to it . |
| 15 | REAR FEAR : Catherine worries about her shape , but she still leaves her rivals behind.Picture : SYGMA |
| 16 | But she half closed her eyes , and she put her head back very slightly , and felt the shadows stir and felt the something wait , and felt the wrongness and the lack of humanity that pervaded the room sweep over her . |
| 17 | She lays the daggers ready , but she then shows her first sign of compassion , revealing : |
| 18 | Caterina had not really understood the argument ; but she now reconstituted her father 's impassioned argument for contracts . |
| 19 | Mam and Da wanted to know everything about Rosie 's life since they saw her last — where had she been , what had she done — but she only shook her head . |
| 20 | But she only gripped her bag more firmly . |
| 21 | Before they parted May told her friend she was going to the cinema but she never left her house again . |
| 22 | But she never uses her personality to gain a career advantage . |
| 23 | But she never abandoned her attempts to plumb my innermost emotions , always asking , ‘ What do you feel about X , Y , or Z ? ’ , never ‘ What do you think ? ’ |
| 24 | But she always puts her empty bottles that side so I suppose that 's why . |
| 25 | But she suddenly puckered her forehead . |
| 26 | But we never visit her shop and she knows why . |
| 27 | But Jezrael walked unevenly yet unharmed , because the watchers in the jet and neon ghetto saw her dangling arm but they also saw her face and the ire in it was barely leashed . |
| 28 | Her experiment was successful because she exacted high standards of cleanliness and co-operation ; but it also involved her exceptional degree of commitment , and although her success was often cited and sometimes emulated , it could no more serve as a general prescription than the 5 per cent philanthropy of Peabody and others . |
| 29 | But it still turned her knees to water . |
| 30 | Helen Crane , an ex-secretary , valued her job because it not only gave her the experience of autonomy , but it publicly valued her exercise of this responsibility : |