Example sentences of "but she be [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " But she 's probably fallen for some dashing Italian by now , Matthew added . |
| 2 | But she 's already rejected four agency nurses now , so I 'm getting a bit desperate . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Katharine Over has only been studying Japanese for a year , but she 's already considered good enough to act as an ambassador for Britain . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But she 's only wrote one letter . |
| 7 | " She 's left me some money and all her furniture and things , " Sara went on , " but she 's only left me half the house . " |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But she 's never used a phrase like that before . |
| 12 | But she 's never hurt her before , not like this . ’ |
| 13 | But she 's always said , I believe this , I shall act like this . |
| 14 | and then last year we did Peter Pan and I said right I 'm leaving but she 's always wanted |
| 15 | Yeah , but she 's more settled in . |
| 16 | ‘ Emily has a quick temper , ’ Craig said , ‘ but she 's fair minded and she 'll reconsider the situation , I 'm sure . ’ |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | But she is well trained , and — ’ |
| 19 | At the slave auction there are many would-be buyers for Barbara , but she is eventually bought by the enigmatic Tavius , the keeper of the household at Nero 's court . |
| 20 | Tall Loretta is supposed to pursue masculine endings of a linguistic kind as a London University academic but she is easily diverted to Bridget 's base at St Mark 's , Cambridge , and to discussions of one kind and another in Paris . |
| 21 | But she is essentially faced with thinking out what she believes truth to be . |
| 22 | Alice may enter a looking-glass world where unexpected things happen , but she is still constituted like a human being : walking may take her in an unexpected direction , but the nature of the physical act of walking is taken for granted . |
| 23 | She seems gay at first but she is quickly transformed , after a short lovemaking , into a Spenserian crone . |
| 24 | But she is continually spotted out in the real world , so to speak , especially in the shops even though she looks nothing like her screen image . |
| 25 | Jenna did n't know what a Louis-Phillippe property was , but she was completely entranced . |
| 26 | Everyone else was searched and had all their valuables stolen … but she was completely ignored . |
| 27 | Like any woman , she was happy to be admired , but she was also determined to sell her wheat at a good price , and to do business with the other farmers like a man . |
| 28 | Wherever they were , they could n't help sensing the presence of the man with the tent at the far end of the bank ; it was there with them as they crossed the field and pushed through the hedge , in the musty smell of nettles and the white lumps raised on their skin , in the bramble scratches , and the brown fungus that hung from dead trees Libby felt it but she was also attracted by the thought of someone who was ill , someone she could help or look after , like the white mice or the jackdaw with the damaged wing . |
| 29 | But she was well known , whe was well known all over . |
| 30 | ‘ Very well , ma'am , I will say nothing if you wish it , ’ agreed Theda , but she was nevertheless consumed with curiosity . |