Example sentences of "but she [is] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 " But she 's probably fallen for some dashing Italian by now , Matthew added .
2 But she 's already rejected four agency nurses now , so I 'm getting a bit desperate . ’
3 So we 'd have that but she 's already cut them all up into twelfths so how many twelfths how many twelfths would we get each ?
4 Katharine Over has only been studying Japanese for a year , but she 's already considered good enough to act as an ambassador for Britain .
5 Boz is the only one she 'd tell such a thing to , but she 's already told me Boz has n't been to see her since the attack . ’
6 Laura is mixed , ’ John adds , ‘ but she 's not mixed up . ’
7 ‘ Yes , but she 's not hurt at all , she was talking to Mother Francis and to her father .
8 But she 's only wrote one letter .
9 " She 's left me some money and all her furniture and things , " Sara went on , " but she 's only left me half the house . "
10 Well , who did n't ? who would n't ? but she 's never cottoned on to me , and so I do n't know whether or not she 's told you … oh , to put it plainly , I had to give her her marching orders . ’
11 I dread it when she walks in house cos I always think she 's gon na start having a go at me , but she 's never said owt to me yet , has she ?
12 It 's for all these reasons that Madonna has been accused of setting back the women 's movement 30 years , but she 's never claimed to be speaking for the cause .
13 But she 's never used a phrase like that before .
14 But she 's never hurt her before , not like this . ’
15 But she 's always said , I believe this , I shall act like this .
16 and then last year we did Peter Pan and I said right I 'm leaving but she 's always wanted
17 Yeah , but she 's more settled in .
18 ‘ Emily has a quick temper , ’ Craig said , ‘ but she 's fair minded and she 'll reconsider the situation , I 'm sure . ’
19 His mother did encourage him in other of his writings , and certainly there is a good deal of family tradition in the ten books , which might reflect her influence , but she is not mentioned in the preface to the Decem Libri Historiarum .
20 Not only do her efforts to assert her freedom from male domination lead her into the hands of another man , but she is also punished for her resistance by having her words deemed valueless , just as today ‘ pseudo-escaperoutes will so lightly turn sado-escape , and … women 's very freedom will so easily be used against them by even moderately clever men ’ ( 12 ) .
21 But she is well trained , and — ’
22 At the slave auction there are many would-be buyers for Barbara , but she is eventually bought by the enigmatic Tavius , the keeper of the household at Nero 's court .
23 Tall Loretta is supposed to pursue masculine endings of a linguistic kind as a London University academic but she is easily diverted to Bridget 's base at St Mark 's , Cambridge , and to discussions of one kind and another in Paris .
24 But she is essentially faced with thinking out what she believes truth to be .
25 Alice may enter a looking-glass world where unexpected things happen , but she is still constituted like a human being : walking may take her in an unexpected direction , but the nature of the physical act of walking is taken for granted .
26 She seems gay at first but she is quickly transformed , after a short lovemaking , into a Spenserian crone .
27 But she is continually spotted out in the real world , so to speak , especially in the shops even though she looks nothing like her screen image .
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