Example sentences of "she [vb past] but [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expenses which were deducted before any payment was made to her were incurred not by anybody she employed but by the trustees whom the truster had appointed to manage his estate and whom he had directed to pay all necessary charges of administration before any division took place . |
| 2 | May had stepped out of routine only if relatives , more needy she thought but in Jack 's private opinion more selfish and feckless , had called on her help , or on account of their children , now grown up and living away from home . |
| 3 | Once upon a time , she had been able to withstand Florentine summers better than any English woman she knew but of late they had begun to tire her , to make her feel that in everything she did she was pushing a large boulder up a hill . |
| 4 | Desperately she pleaded but to no avail . |
| 5 | And he 's paying over the odds for this house , she said but of course he 's paying for the area , he 's moving up to Walford ! |
| 6 | She said but to these people that buy these kids motorbikes and big cars for two hundred quid . |