Example sentences of "but she [vb mod] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked a little peculiar , but she would make everyone else look pitifully ordinary . |
| 2 | ‘ Or the people who live here , ’ she said , greatly daring , but she would say anything to keep his mind off the bottle . |
| 3 | She would argue about moving Anna before she had fully recovered — if she recovered — but she would put nothing in the way of Anna 's marriage to Nahum Plunkett . |
| 4 | I had few worries that she would suddenly take an interest in American history , but she might notice something out of place and the combination lock looked much more sophisticated than it actually was . |
| 5 | ‘ Bob Lamb has shown an interest in her , ’ went on Elizabeth , ‘ but she 'll have none of him . ’ |
| 6 | but she 'd do anything for you , if you say like midnight one night you got her out of bed and come down . |
| 7 | Ah but she will get something from the State wo n't she ? |
| 8 | I would not pander to it but she must have something to make her life special . ’ |
| 9 | But she must find someone . |
| 10 | But she could do nothing about it . |
| 11 | But she could do nothing , while Sylvie 's presence drew everyone like a charm . |
| 12 | She knew Guy could feel the sudden acceleration of her pulse , but she could do nothing to stop the traitorous throbbing . |
| 13 | But she could do nothing about it ; she was frozen , inside and out . |
| 14 | Ruth kept her distance from him but she could do nothing about the wretched aura that surrounded him . |
| 15 | Marie crouched down to peer through one of the slits but she could see nothing , only blackness inside . |
| 16 | But she could see nothing , because of the salt and rain on the glass . |
| 17 | She tried to look over her shoulder , to see the face of the driver , to mouth some kind of warning to him but she could see nothing . |
| 18 | Again she glanced at the windscreen of the other car but she could see nothing through the darkened glass . |
| 19 | And so she continued , through three years , through a series of such violent changes ; she inspected herself anxiously from time to time for signs of manic-depression or schizophrenia , but she could find nothing but symptoms of increasingly quick recovery . |
| 20 | She was somebody who had mild short-term memory loss , which varied from day to day but she could remember anything about the past . |