Example sentences of "but [subord] she [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only Silas had been there she could have consulted him , but although she looked along the corridor and outside there was no sign of him . |
| 2 | But when she goes into the economics of food , admits the ‘ luxury ’ of aesthetic choice , and gets John Berger off the charge of ‘ bourgeois pastoral ’ or ‘ the consolatory celebration of a fictive rusticity ’ , you have a writer for whom politics was never a mere function of style . |
| 3 | Nutty rode on hopefully , but when she got to the gate Mrs Smith was backing out in a large yellow Range Rover and glared at having to give way to a mere equestrian . |
| 4 | She had recently been knitting double jacquard , but when she got to the very top of a sleeve , she had a little disaster and dropped the lot ! |
| 5 | But when she got to the flat she found it ransacked . |
| 6 | She hurried after him to apologise , but when she got to the salon he was not there . |
| 7 | His wife Ina , 64 , said she heard a scuffle going on outside , but when she got to the door the two youths had already fled . |
| 8 | But when she got into the car at five , ready for the fifteen-mile drive across London , it would n't start . |
| 9 | But when she looked at the mirror again the stain of spectacles was still there and she had to wipe it off with a cloth so that Larry would not see . |
| 10 | But when she looked at the sides of the hole , she could see cupboards and books and pictures on the walls . |
| 11 | Lee wondered why the barman tolerated him but when she looked towards the bar she saw that the barman seemed hypnotized by the antics of the pub 's female singer , not pleasantly , but as if he had been created permanently attached to a painful but essentially dependable puzzle . |
| 12 | But when she returned to the cool breakfast-room where Faye was spending the morning , the artist clapped her hands together delightedly and said , ‘ There ! |
| 13 | She knew what she would use to make the mask , but when she returned to the glade where , yesterday , she had visited the Moondream rajathuk , she found it quite destroyed . |
| 14 | But when she went into the kitchen there was no sign of the witch 's hat . |
| 15 | But when she went to the head of the stairs and looked down she could see that his study door was ajar and the house was quiet and she returned to her room . |
| 16 | Her eyes scanned the first page quickly , taking in the expected account of how Ellen had looked after Oreste as her own , but when she came to the reasons why he had not been handed over to Gigia , Wilson slowed down and even repeated the words to herself . |
| 17 | But when she came to the end of them , and stood there trembling , she realised that if he remembered her he would certainly report her to Mr Carson . |
| 18 | She was quite composed copying the address onto the telegraph form , but when she came to the words : Am in Hell . |
| 19 | She could n't recall stirring but when she came to the end of the journal and looked up , bemused and far away , not recognizing her surroundings for a while , the room was faintly glowing with fire and candlelight and the sky beyond the windows was inky blue . |
| 20 | But when she thought about the future , about staying at home , then marrying Georg and just moving over the ridge , and starting there and then to have babies and spend every day in the dairy the way her mother did , a terrible sense of panic overtook her . |
| 21 | She ran downstairs , circling the lift-shaft , certain that he 'd be gone , but when she emerged into the street , he seemed to have moved only a few yards , walking slowly , his head bowed . |
| 22 | Molly 's special subject was the Ketterings ; but when she turned to the reproduction of ‘ The Flagellation ’ the book was empty , the list gone . |
| 23 | She said no , she said , he told her if she wanted to go to the expense of a wig , she could get a wig and she wear it when she went out , but when she comes in the house she must take it off , she must not wear that wig |
| 24 | She was a good waitress , but when she stood by the tables , the men looked round her to see Aileen . |
| 25 | But when she called into the business on Yarm Road earlier this week , she found Darlington Wedding Cars had vanished . |
| 26 | But when she arrived at the hotel , Miss Crossland , 27 , claimed she ‘ was fobbed off all morning waiting for the cheque ’ . |
| 27 | He took her in his car up to one of the few routes over the Apennines , but when she arrived at the pass , the Passo della Cisa , and saw the undulating , never-ending hills , she panicked . |
| 28 | A quick glance showed that towels were needed , so she went to the linen cupboard and collected two large fluffy ones , but as she returned to the room the sound of Doreen 's plaintive voice caused her to pause . |
| 29 | But as she walked from the archway which linked the beach and the harbour , she saw Merlyn and Benedict Joseph driving away . |
| 30 | But as she walked from the witness box towards the courtroom door , passing within feet of the dock , Mrs Dart staged her outburst . |