Example sentences of "but she [adv] [vb past] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What are yer waitin' for ? ’ he asked her , but she just shrugged her shoulders and held out her hands . |
| 2 | But she just turned her head and stared at Granny . |
| 3 | But she just shook her head and went back to her pouch-seat and Posi 's course-setting . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The queen dowager might no longer be regent , in Protestant eyes , but she still had her French troops and stalemate continued . |
| 8 | But she still had her friend , and Aileen put her arm round Tildy . |
| 9 | But she still had her friend , and Aileen put her arm round Tildy . |
| 10 | But she still had her eyes hidden against seeing her father thrown across the stage . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Caterina had not really understood the argument ; but she now reconstituted her father 's impassioned argument for contracts . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But she only gripped her bag more firmly . |
| 16 | Before they parted May told her friend she was going to the cinema but she never left her house again . |
| 17 | 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 ? ’ |
| 18 | But she suddenly puckered her forehead . |