Example sentences of "but she had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman had been talking to him , but she had gone away . |
| 2 | But she had gone up before him , her narrow back and bunched skirts all that were visible of her from below . |
| 3 | Apprehension dried Polly 's throat and she could feel her cheeks burning , but she had gone too far to stop now . |
| 4 | But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip . |
| 5 | But she had to bend almost double and she was too large a woman , thickly fleshed , for that . |
| 6 | But she had to turn up at Maggie 's school in her working clothes . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher might now be widely regarded as an electoral liability ; but she had bounced back before from low opinion poll ratings and by-election reverses to win huge general election victories . |
| 8 | He had alarmed her but she had stood up to him fearlessly and he knew it . |
| 9 | But she had to sit there fighting to regain her composure . |
| 10 | Wardens had yelled at her , she had stumbled over rubble and hosepipes , her path lit by the glare of hundreds of fires , she had been terrified by the throbbing of the engines of the bombers overhead and the crump of bombs , but she had run on . |
| 11 | But she had to go on . |
| 12 | She felt as though she was dying , as though her heart was being ripped piece by piece into shreds , but she had to go on and finish the programme . |
| 13 | God , but she had grown up a lot since then . |
| 14 | But she had made up her mind never to allow herself to get close to him , in case there was a repetition of that first rather disturbing kiss . |
| 15 | Most meal-times took an hour or more but she had realized how important it was for him to eat . |
| 16 | She could do nothing about the cold or the slick damp that covered the walls , but she had gathered as much straw as she could and had made a bed in the driest of the cells . |
| 17 | But she had given up telling Gloria about what went on each day . |
| 18 | But she had given up all hope of Joss Barnet returning that evening and nothing else in the world mattered . |
| 19 | For a moment , he reminded Melissa of Lou in his haste to defend a loved one , but she had seen how his knuckles whitened on hearing the story and guessed what he must be thinking . |
| 20 | She could n't see Miguelito from here , but she had seen enough . |
| 21 | It was hard to stand her ground but she had done so , not wishing to be reclaimed by old emotions . |
| 22 | Not only had she managed to walk past these birds , but she had done so without experiencing the usual sense of panic . |
| 23 | She had run away , not something in keeping with her character at all , but she had done so nevertheless . |
| 24 | But she had risen early and found that staying put with nothing to do was growing more and more irksome . |
| 25 | But she had turned away from her high window and demanded he scale the ivory walls without her help . |
| 26 | Running out was totally unprofessional , but she had acted purely on instinct . |
| 27 | Theda had reached down to clasp her trembling fingers lightly about the cold wrist lying on the coverlet , but she had known already that there was no pulse to be discerned . |
| 28 | It was Elsie all right — the police seemed convinced of that — but she had died round about 1970 , not 1934 . |
| 29 | It had been their intention to send her to a finishing school in France or Germany , but she had begged so hard to be allowed to stay where she was , with Breeze and Gay . |
| 30 | This was not a lucrative job , but she had had so much to do at home that she could n't undertake anything else . |