Example sentences of "but she " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was also , among other literary things , the wonderful and baleful orphan or isolate who is seen to advantage in the books she read : and it may be that cultural history is especially worth attending to in cases such as hers , where the subject is a dedicated reader , and the basis for a directly psychological account is even more than usually insecure . |
| 2 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 3 | I could n't believe my ears but she repeated it : I realized I had not properly understood my own needs . |
| 4 | ’ Bramble began , but she silenced him with a glare from the astonishing blue eyes . |
| 5 | But she does n't look like a detective … |
| 6 | I tried to talk to her sensibly but she just would n't listen . ’ |
| 7 | But she stifled her annoyance , and smiled — the very model of a good vicar 's wife . |
| 8 | There were tears on the unremarkable face of Mrs Phipps , but she had made no sound , from the minute of entering the tent until now . |
| 9 | But she was not all right . |
| 10 | Now that she was Claire could get any sillier , but she did . |
| 11 | Kezia refused a sandwich but she smiled at Annabel , and — I could hardly believe it — Annabel curtsied . |
| 12 | Nanny is definitely a ‘ Lower Breed ’ , but she does n't act as if she knows it . |
| 13 | I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not so sure about Thomas , ’ said Ethel , ‘ but she 'd have stuck to her own circle . |
| 15 | ‘ Ah , but she would n't have , would she ? ’ said Ethel . |
| 16 | She was a plain woman with the apparent placidity of the overweight , but she did n't look as if she missed much . |
| 17 | Anne is abroad at the moment , doing some research , but she left a message with someone that I 'm to give her a ring when she gets back . |
| 18 | The handshake was a stupid idea as she was still holding Darren , but she let him slide down to the floor and we shook . |
| 19 | She 's a really lovely woman but she 's not very bright about things like this . |
| 20 | By the way , while I think of it , Anne was just about to leave the country when you rang , but she says when she gets back in September you 're to give her a call . ’ |
| 21 | Flowers at her door , good God , it 's less than nine in the morning … but she , of course , is already here . |
| 22 | But she had only ever pulled the stops out for people she loved and respected . |
| 23 | But she hung on to herself . |
| 24 | But she did n't have the nerve . |
| 25 | But she might never . ’ |
| 26 | She blanked out the sudden picture of white sands and her and Lucy in a scented olive-grove evening … her heart panted to slake its thirst with dreaming , but she slammed the scenes of happiness as illusion , mirage . |
| 27 | But she wo n't call . |
| 28 | But she did n't . |
| 29 | But she was gone . |
| 30 | They were expecting Club 18–30 , but she would be long gone before that intrusion . |