Example sentences of "but [adj] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | So apparently she said ooh he probably charges , perhaps if he 's not very he reduces the price but funny she said twenty five pounds . |
| 2 | She would have respected Simon Copley more if he had been less prone to venial selfishness , less preoccupied with his physical comfort , but this she told herself was probably the result of fifty years of spoiling by a devoted wife . |
| 3 | During the " 14 — " 18 war , I started singing " Eternal Father strong to save " at the end of my prayers and Basil got very tired of it and asked Mother to stop me , but this she felt unable to do . |
| 4 | Dad pushing her into her bedroom : basket , cloak and everything , snatching the key from the inside , and then — but this she could not believe — locking it from the outside . |
| 5 | But this she refused , although she appreciated the gesture . |
| 6 | But this she found easier to bear , partly because Mrs. Mounce had so many troubles herself that she was able to be kind back to her , and partly because Mrs. Mounce 's world and Mrs. Mounce 's advice seemed even more remote and unreal than Jannie 's . |
| 7 | But hysteric she was , subject to the fatal political weakness of collapsing in time of trouble . |
| 8 | A few of them would have been a serious giveaway in any frontier search , but these she 'd covered over with postcard views bought from the Europiskaya Hotel . |
| 9 | She tried joining her mind to the millions of people everywhere glued to screens for this all important match but all she could see was Colm 's pudgy little legs swinging backwards and forwards and the grim look on his face as she washed away the crusted blood . |
| 10 | She used big general terms about the Falklands , but all she really meant was : Argies are n't going to mess white Britons about . |
| 11 | But all she said was : ‘ Go on , then . |
| 12 | Maggie stared out of the nearest window , but all she could see was . |
| 13 | A disputatious look crossed Maud 's face , but all she said was , ‘ And you ? |
| 14 | Edward was still kissing her , his tongue circling inside her mouth , but all she could think about was this new sensation between her legs , a little like the way she felt when they danced , but even better . |
| 15 | But all she wanted was lots more glamour . |
| 16 | I thought , I 'm for it now , but all she said when she 'd bustled in and taken the coal from the cart , was , 'Ere yar . |
| 17 | She obviously wants to graduate to serious emotional drama , but all she does is turn interesting subjects ( in this case the buried feminist history of women 's baseball ) into mush . |
| 18 | But all she 'd had were roles in forgettable TV shows and minor movies . |
| 19 | First thing this morning we were lying in bed and I asked Polly whether she was real , but all she said was ‘ What the f— are you doing in my bed ? ’ so the jury 's still out on that one . |
| 20 | She tried the Moebius Strip , but all she got was an answering routine . |
| 21 | She peered out through the hole but all she could see was the perimeter fence thirty yards away . |
| 22 | She went through his pockets but all she found was a spare clip for the FN FAL . |
| 23 | Artemis sat absolutely still in her bath , trying to hear what Rosie and the other maids were saying , but all she could hear were their silly giggles . |
| 24 | But all she could feel was a cold overpowering daze ; seven years was too long ; she did n't know what to do . |
| 25 | Without any warning the great wave came crashing , obliterating everything ; she knew she was crying out , shouting words of furious magic ; but all she could feel was Fand 's hand in hers . |
| 26 | But all she saw was slow , repeated , stumbling , coughing killings at which she retched in a very conventional English animal-loving way , which upset Monsieur Grimaud , who was an aficionado , and had been lecturing Frederica on the provenance and meaning of that word . |
| 27 | Some of the others would have to be rewired ; some would never be rewired again , but all she had was a headache . |
| 28 | The table was littered with shrimp whiskers , the sponge-cake gobbled up to the last crumb — but all she could do was to sip painfully at a meagre cup of tea and toy with a few shoots of mustard and cress , although she had prepared the extensive meal . |
| 29 | She tried to remember the little he had said about Suvarov , but all she could think of was that without him neither she nor Anthony would have met David . |
| 30 | She seemed poised to make a speech , then and there , in the middle of Tottenham Court Road , but all she said , before she came forward to join us , was : ‘ Art can be a snare and a delusion . ’ |