Example sentences of "but she [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the woman had gone Anna was left in a very distressed state but she declined to say what had passed between her and the visitor . |
| 2 | hated writing stories but she likes reading them . |
| 3 | Martin feels guilty for not preventing it , but she refuses to see him . |
| 4 | A suspicion kept niggling at the back of her mind , but she kept pushing it away as more than she could deal with . |
| 5 | They 'd been engaged twice but she kept breaking it off because he could n't hold a job down . |
| 6 | Yeah , but she kept saying what 's saying what 's the address right ? |
| 7 | I like this girl , cos she 's Welsh , just , I ca n't do her accent , but she kept saying it several times , he was getting really pissed off with her . |
| 8 | She was really odd , she showed me the way but she kept saying she would n't come in because she was n't allowed to set foot in there . ’ |
| 9 | His mother , also dead , was really German , but she had called herself Austrian in an impulse of cowardice that Stephen rather cherished her for . |
| 10 | He had said as much to Winifred Shalcross , but she had shaken her head . |
| 11 | Her whole stance was a silent challenge to him to deny it , but she had to press her lips tightly together to stop them quivering . |
| 12 | But she had eaten it , and with the delicious taste still lingering on her palate it had seemed ungrateful to cross-question him . |
| 13 | He had taken no precautions during their love-making but she had assured him that she had that under control . |
| 14 | But she had met him on the towpath the next week and the one following . |
| 15 | This was n't how she had planned it — not that she had really planned anything , but she had pictured herself , cold and ferocious , confronting him , shocking him with the knowledge that he had virtually killed her brother . |
| 16 | If she had been a religious person she would have put it down to retribution for her sins , but she had lost whatever faith she had had in her years as the Madam of Dublin 's most fashionable brothel . |
| 17 | He had tried to hold her , comfort her , but she had pushed him away . |
| 18 | But she had said nothing , and she knew from the look on his face that he was thinking she was still bearing a grudge from the incident in the storeroom the previous night . |
| 19 | She racked her brains to remember what she had said about Barnes to David Fairfax , but she had said nothing , only that he came from Woodlands Incorporated — and that , because she was still holding his card in her hand . |
| 20 | He had no key to the house ; he had asked his mother for one , but she had said it was n't necessary — there would always be someone there to let him in . |
| 21 | But she had said it without much hope . |
| 22 | She 'd been very positive about that , not just here in the car , but she had said it to me in the bedroom while I was packing her things and she was still in a mentally uninhibited state . |
| 23 | Hardly the most appropriate thing to say when he was helping her , but she had to say something , anything , to hide her flustered response to being this close to him . |
| 24 | Folly knew she was taking a risk , but she had to say something . |
| 25 | Sally-Anne was suddenly rosy red at her daring , but she had to say it ; it needed to be said . |
| 26 | She had never been to Spain before but she had imagined it . |
| 27 | He felt a great deal of anger towards his wife and really wanted to express it to her but she had cheated him , as he saw it , by deliberately having an accident and dying and therefore depriving him of having the opportunity to say what he felt . |
| 28 | She swam for 40 km ( 25 miles ) in the shark-infested Indian Ocean , but she had cut her foot and she saw half a dozen sharks trailing her . |
| 29 | But she had hidden her face in her hands . |
| 30 | Mattie had wanted to put a shawl over her shoulders , but she had shrugged it off and demanded to be left alone . |