Example sentences of "but she [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she had been in a coma , she was n't mad . |
| 2 | Well yes , Angie had been very busy and preoccupied with the wedding preparations , naturally , but she had been happy . |
| 3 | Her family were farmers , but she had been sent by her employer to learn the finer points of cuisine and household management from the master chef and the housekeeper at the Savoy . |
| 4 | Through Dorothea 's head flitted the tune , but she had been too facetious already , to her shame . |
| 5 | Grandmother Gertler had been grateful to her family , but she had been less unequivocal in her thankfulness to God . |
| 6 | But she had been so ashamed . |
| 7 | Not only had she failed to recapture her budgie , but she had been accused of stealing apples and brought disgrace upon the Pack ! |
| 8 | He had loved that girl from afar after that first incident , but she had been too full of fun and the love of life to worry about boyfriends . |
| 9 | But she had been battling against these odds for five hours , so perhaps her judgement was a little warped . |
| 10 | According to their records , she had not lost consciousness , but she had been badly shaken up . |
| 11 | She did n't fully understand the set-up at the Katz Motel , but she had been through the fires , and was surviving . |
| 12 | He had looked after his younger brothers and sister , he had made sure that she always had enough money , but she had been hearing things of late that had frightened her . |
| 13 | But she had been frightened and it made her angry with Albert . |
| 14 | She had thought he would be happy about Mrs Gotobed 's message because she would have been , but she had been wrong about that . |
| 15 | He proposed to her at the offices of Faber and Faber ; after she had accepted , he explained that he would have asked her much sooner if he had known her real feelings towards him , but she had been so formal with him that he was not even sure if she liked him — which , after eight years , suggests an odd insecurity or impercipience . |
| 16 | But she had been forbidden by her mother to have anything to do with her Pascoe cousins , and she was sure Tristram was under the same veto as far as she was concerned ; and for a long time — years — she had never even spoken a word to him . |
| 17 | When Katherine had opened the parcel , she had found a copy of Henry James 's Daisy Miller , but she had been too excited to read . |
| 18 | Not only that , but she had been so upset , she had clean forgotten to plug Galactic Outbursts . |
| 19 | Long ago , Miranda had realized that sexual involvement with Adam could only complicate her life , but she had been only half awake and off guard when he made his move . |
| 20 | She was n't a relation but she had been told to call her Aunt Violet . |
| 21 | But she had been fond of Moira , and guessed how much anguish the rift in the family must have caused her . |
| 22 | But she had been so frightened , so shocked , so bewildered by the sudden invasion of her life . |
| 23 | He had phoned a couple of times but she had been out . |
| 24 | But she had been working er er as a |
| 25 | But she had been right about the other thing , so maybe she was right about this . |
| 26 | But she had been lucky once , it was too much to hope for another equally timely arrival . |
| 27 | But she had been Vanessa Vail and Dr Dismembrio and the Sewer Thing too . |
| 28 | At the time , the term meant nothing to her , but she had been intrigued , read the references to the religious wars in the regional guide-book and mentally filed the information for future use . |
| 29 | But she had been told where she could find Georgie early that evening . |
| 30 | It might not be her number one priority but she had been organising people as long as she could remember . |