Example sentences of "but she know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not like what her life demanded of her , but she knew painfully and absolutely that the moment for truth had come . |
| 2 | It had n't taken them long , but she knew instinctively as they hurried into the hollow gloom of the station that they had missed yet another train . |
| 3 | She had n't formulated much of a plan , but she knew instinctively that if anything happened it would be there . |
| 4 | She knew that she should extend some kind of apology herself , but she knew equally well that she had no intention of doing any such thing . |
| 5 | I rushed home , where my mother was alone , but she knew already . |
| 6 | Meredith might be a virgin , but she knew when a man was aroused . |
| 7 | She did n't have a lot of experience , but she knew when a man was aroused and when he was n't . |
| 8 | But she knew immediately who the footsteps belonged to , and she knew also that she was blushing . |
| 9 | But she knew also that his better self would struggle to serve her best interests and in its better moments was quite selflessly caring ; and so she had long ago ignored the pettiness , the commerce and the insult of the worse self . |
| 10 | She was a stranger to the place but she knew where she was going . |
| 11 | Quite clearly , Paul Fisher thought she had reported him to his superior , but she knew full well that she had n't . |
| 12 | She did not pretend to know how the ‘ magic ’ worked , but she knew this much . |
| 13 | She had to run the barrage of more glances as she made her way over to the new extension , but she knew then that people looking at her was not on account of her being half an hour late , but on account of everyone , it seemed , knowing of her engagement . |
| 14 | But she knew then that , plagued and plagued again by the same thought during her fretful waking night-time hours , she just could not leave it . |
| 15 | She wondered what he meant by that last remark about his brother , so quickly bitten off , but she knew better than to ask . |
| 16 | Beryl meant that Adam had been among the previous owners of Wyvis Hall while her husband had not , but she knew better than to point this out . |
| 17 | It would be so easy to believe , but she knew better . |
| 18 | Leonora 's heart sank , but she knew better by this time than to argue with Penry Vaughan . |
| 19 | If she were him she would want to , but she knew now that it was no use trying to put herself in his place . |
| 20 | But she knew now that he lived in a state near total despair , his life so meaningless he did n't know how to live it , his one certainty that he had to find Jake and Fincara . |
| 21 | But she knew now that she could n't . |
| 22 | He would n't be allowed to race if his eye was bad , but she knew only too well what a punishing endurance it was for the drivers . |
| 23 | But she knew perfectly well it was a foolish and misplaced sense of petty triumph for the old order had changed irrevocably . |
| 24 | She made some weak excuse when she telephoned to break the appointment , but she knew perfectly well that she was apprehensive about going out in case the weather changed and it began to rain . |
| 25 | But she knew perfectly well what she was doing . ’ |
| 26 | This was one evil woman , no doubt about it , but she knew how to do it . |
| 27 | She had no wish to upset her husband , but she knew how much Stephen 's mother hated her and felt that her mother-in-law was trying to usurp her place in the baby 's affections . |
| 28 | She still did not want a baby , but she knew how much she did want and need her husband . |
| 29 | God , but she knew how he liked to be pleasured , taking care not to stale his nerves with repetition , but cajoling his juice into cells already brimming , until he was ready to come in blood , and be murdered by her work , willingly . |
| 30 | The T'ang had not looked at Fei Yen , and his comment seemed quite innocuous , but she knew how traditional her father-in-law was . |