Example sentences of "but she [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not only is she living thousands of miles away , in New York , but she 's also expecting twins any day now ! |
| 2 | And they go on holiday and they 're not supposed to , you know , they neither of them of told their boyfriend they go in this club and one of them , the married one , starts dancing with this man and like he , he thinks cos she 's dancing with him she likes him but she 's just having fun . |
| 3 | " But she 's probably fallen for some dashing Italian by now , Matthew added . |
| 4 | Helen and Joanna came out looking very serious , and Joanna said , ‘ Robert tried to shut Dawn up , but she 's evidently going to make trouble for us . |
| 5 | But she 's already rejected four agency nurses now , so I 'm getting a bit desperate . ’ |
| 6 | So we 'd have that but she 's already cut them all up into twelfths so how many twelfths how many twelfths would we get each ? |
| 7 | Katharine Over has only been studying Japanese for a year , but she 's already considered good enough to act as an ambassador for Britain . |
| 8 | Boz is the only one she 'd tell such a thing to , but she 's already told me Boz has n't been to see her since the attack . ’ |
| 9 | But she 's now making another name for herself as the brains behind the first horse register in the country . |
| 10 | ‘ But she 's only wrote one letter . |
| 11 | Yeah , but she 's only waiting then i n't she , outside ? |
| 12 | " She 's left me some money and all her furniture and things , " Sara went on , " but she 's only left me half the house . " |
| 13 | stuff I was listening to this morning I do n't whether that was one of the things but she 's certainly looking at areas like that . |
| 14 | But she 's still doing . |
| 15 | 2 weeks ago it finally came to trial 2 weeks ago and today was the day of judgement , but she 's still waiting . |
| 16 | But she 's still planning |
| 17 | perhaps she 's mellowed now , I mean the last time she went on with it , about it , was probably over a year ago , but she 's still going on about it definitely a year ago not just |
| 18 | Well , who did n't ? who would n't ? but she 's never cottoned on to me , and so I do n't know whether or not she 's told you … oh , to put it plainly , I had to give her her marching orders . ’ |
| 19 | I dread it when she walks in house cos I always think she 's gon na start having a go at me , but she 's never said owt to me yet , has she ? |
| 20 | It 's for all these reasons that Madonna has been accused of setting back the women 's movement 30 years , but she 's never claimed to be speaking for the cause . |
| 21 | But she 's never used a phrase like that before . |
| 22 | But she 's never hurt her before , not like this . ’ |
| 23 | But she 's always said , I believe this , I shall act like this . |
| 24 | and then last year we did Peter Pan and I said right I 'm leaving but she 's always wanted |
| 25 | Michelle added : ‘ She looked a bit of a sight when I got to the station but she 's always trying on my clothes . |
| 26 | yeah , but she 's always arguing with everybody oh right , thank you |
| 27 | Yeah , but she 's more settled in . |
| 28 | ‘ Emily has a quick temper , ’ Craig said , ‘ but she 's fair minded and she 'll reconsider the situation , I 'm sure . ’ |
| 29 | Not only do her efforts to assert her freedom from male domination lead her into the hands of another man , but she is also punished for her resistance by having her words deemed valueless , just as today ‘ pseudo-escaperoutes will so lightly turn sado-escape , and … women 's very freedom will so easily be used against them by even moderately clever men ’ ( 12 ) . |
| 30 | But she is also reacting against a political ‘ fixer ’ style of leadership associated with the Labour Prime Ministers Mr Wilson and Mr Callaghan in the mid-1970s . |