Example sentences of "but she [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She never touched the few adult books , mostly school text books , and she hid the copy of Lorna Doone , but she clung to the rest as if they were lifebelts . |
| 2 | I knew I should throw her to the patrol and make my own getaway , but she appealed to the chink in my armour . |
| 3 | She knew she had to keep moving , but she lay on the ground where she had landed . |
| 4 | But she relaxed at the sound of Schubert . |
| 5 | Alexandra wondered if Mrs Burrows had said anything else , but she gazed at the tapestry on her lap and said only , ‘ She — she is most kind . |
| 6 | Talking to strangers might be unwise , but she thought of the ghastly welcome awaiting the tired , unsuspecting traveller , and felt sorry for him . |
| 7 | But she thought of the back the garden door |
| 8 | Firemen had to lift up the bus before ambulance officers could try to rescue her , but she died at the scene . |
| 9 | In that sense , she died a failure ; but she died with the respect , even admiration , not just of her supporters , but of those Protestant lords who had struggled against her . |
| 10 | Smith inspected the United Boys ' Brigades of America with her in 1907 but she died in the same year of a tragic accident , not long after their return . |
| 11 | But she lived in the shadow of her sporty sisters and her mother who was ‘ captain of everything ’ when she was at school and would have played at Junior Wimbledon but for an attack of appendicitis . |
| 12 | She could not communicate with their static sky-fires but she watched/felt/learned of the realities of Spiderglass on the Earth of a century before , back when industry meant manufacture or service and did n't encompass its environments or political power . |
| 13 | But she responded to the kind note in his voice when he said , ‘ Now , my dear , you are a clever girl and a brave one . |
| 14 | so , but she said on the day when she come over and she getting a letter off the Social about what interest we pay on the house she 's got , she says they do n't pay any , she 's , for last two or three years , they have n't paid any , she had to fill his side in and send all his side to Halifax or whatever , she 's er |
| 15 | " You do n't really want to go , " said Laura , but she disappeared into the spare cabin , where , unfortunately , her dresses had to be kept . |
| 16 | Normally , although his massive body dwarfed her own , he showed her consideration in his bed , but she knew from the rare occasions when it had happened before that drinking heavily coarsened his sexual appetites . |
| 17 | His expression was unreadable , but she knew from the hot breath flowing over her breasts that he was finding the procedure as erotic as she was . |
| 18 | She did not go to the station , but she went along the line to the place where the engines stopped . |
| 19 | Her action against the school ( the first defendants ) failed but she recovered from the second defendants . |
| 20 | But she looked at the robe again and several of the eyes opened and blinked and swivelled in their sockets , as if they had heard her thoughts and were rather amused by them . |
| 21 | But she came to the kitchen when summoned to help , and she tried not to grumble at the repetitive nature of the work and the talk . |
| 22 | I considered I had had a sheltered upbringing — perhaps ‘ genteel ’ is nearer the mark — but she came from the world of country weekends , day and night nurseries , nannies , and never having to worry about where next week 's housekeeping money was coming from , or having to do the washing up . |
| 23 | it 's an old , old house but she says at the top of the house |
| 24 | But she worried about the image the films made for him . |
| 25 | But she tugged at the Mendelssohn like a bad child . |
| 26 | And you wo n't believe this , but she rounded off the meal with a wedge of Black Forest gâteau . |
| 27 | Mary Kingsley was also an intrepid traveller , but she stuck to the conventional dress of a Victorian lady , which on one occasion saved her life . |
| 28 | But she sank on the ground calling out , " Water ! |
| 29 | But she heads for the kitchen , just the same . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't be childish , ’ said Sam , but she turned off the tape . |