Example sentences of "but she [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The word trembled on the tip of her tongue , but she choked it back just in time . |
| 2 | It was n't easy to pretend to be casual under their teasing , but she hoped she managed to conceal her real feelings . |
| 3 | She was too old for a doll 's house now so it did n't matter , but she hoped he would finish what he was doing for Oliver . |
| 4 | It was an inconsequential remark but she hoped it might lead to some interesting revelation on Ianthe 's part , that Bishop Heber had been an ancestor or that she loved Victorian poetry , for , looking at the bookshelves , she was sure that she did . |
| 5 | It would be good to clear the air , but she hoped it would hold off until after the party . |
| 6 | It would be possible , temporarily , to laugh at the wife being landed in trouble by the monk after her meretricious bargain with him , but she extricates herself from this problem in true fabliau manner . |
| 7 | Mother was surprised to see their visitor , but she thanked him again for the things he had sent when she was ill . |
| 8 | There were two , but she knotted one out of the way . |
| 9 | A large tear trickled down her nose , but she fielded it neatly before Susan saw . |
| 10 | His hand shot out now and made an effort to grab the bedclothes from her , but she clutched them tightly against her throat . |
| 11 | But she admits her first experience of birth has n't put her off — she 's just glad they live so close to the hospital otherwise she 'd probably have given birth in the car ! |
| 12 | She lost the fingers of one hand in the accident but she admits it could have been a lot worse . |
| 13 | With her first baby , Faith tended to cook and purée fresh food but she admits there is n't always time to do this now . |
| 14 | But she admits there was room for rationalization in other areas ; ‘ at first clothes were never costed properly ; in fact we may have been underpricing ’ , she explained , ‘ but for Laura the most important thing was that everyone was working happily together ’ . |
| 15 | Her lifelong mission has been to counter fundamentalist hypocrisy in any form , but she admits she 'd now like to resolve the conflict with her mother . |
| 16 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 17 | He came towards her , arms outstretched , but she avoided him . |
| 18 | But she avoided my lips , so that I brushed her cheek , and as I tried to find her mouth she said , ‘ No , Kit . |
| 19 | but she sold her house in Jersey , her husband retires in July , the school break , and erm and she said I 've got some good , er when I got home from wherever I 'd been , Rudy left me a note to say phone Val good news and I thought it were her back was good news , but she said no me medical problems were not good news , they dare n't operate cos me back 's in such a state and they have n't give her much hope for anything apart from a wheelchair sort of thing , later on in life and erm , but she said that I 've got a bit of good news I 've sold me house so I said ooh lovely , so she said I do n't know any more but I ring you and let you know , the next night she phoned me back , she said yeah me house has gone they got two hundred and twenty thousand for it , they wanted them out a week on Thursday |
| 20 | His weight had increased since their marriage , and she began to dread his nightly activity , but she accepted it without complaint as the price she had to pay for Corrie . |
| 21 | ‘ Sure , but she accepted it . |
| 22 | She knew he was fobbing her off , but she accepted it ; she was willing to sit in the back seat and let him do the driving . |
| 23 | Carrie was uncertain whether it was what she wanted to hear him say , but she accepted his brief gesture of affection and smiled up at him . |
| 24 | But she asks who is going to believe her , when he is an Egyptian and she is a foreigner ? ’ |
| 25 | But she offered me a nice sunny room under the eaves at the back . |
| 26 | But she disobeyed him , brought the baby out , and he had never found her so gay , so welcoming . |
| 27 | Mrs Hirst , who is the chairman of a local disabled charity group , believed these steps were important , but she thought they did not go far enough . |
| 28 | There were dangers in this silence — Wilson well understood that the steady remittance of funds for the care of Oreste constituted a claim on him over and above that of natural parentage — but she thought them worth risking . |
| 29 | The children had had a bad spell with that , but she thought it was over now . |
| 30 | She thought she would have to hold on extremely tightly if they were to go any faster , but she thought it was a thrilling , intoxicating sensation to be borne along like this . |