Example sentences of "but she [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but she got it in the greens |
| 2 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |
| 3 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 4 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 5 | They are comfortably familiar tunes , but she interprets them in an intensely personal way . |
| 6 | In. , Finally , the boy tried to squirm past her like a silverfish but she had him by the hair and was breaking the rifle over his head and shoulders when my father stopped her . |
| 7 | This was n't so easy , but she managed it in the end . |
| 8 | He caught them and tried to hold her still but she fought him like a spitting cat . |
| 9 | but she saw him on the way to work in town , had a bloody great barney with him on the market place on the way to work , just say , she was in there about ten minutes and burst into tears |
| 10 | Everyone else seemed to be roused by the War , but she saw it as a giant emotional hoax . |
| 11 | An Irish relative had told her that Ireland was now to be known as Eire but she knew nothing of the reasons for this , or of what was happening in Germany . |
| 12 | She had known this all along , but she knew it with a different knowledge now . |
| 13 | He tried to kiss her , but she evaded him in a half-angry , half-flirtatious way , so they were in the middle of a clumsy clinch when Lucaroni walked in . |
| 14 | ‘ I tried to reason with her after , but she locked herself in the bathroom , crying . |
| 15 | But she felt none of the joy she had anticipated . |
| 16 | It was an ordeal for Beth to be used for this night after night , but she comforted herself with the knowledge that he truly loved her and was always both gentle and considerate . |
| 17 | But she bore herself like a queen as she slowly descended the stairs , and knew that Araminta , staring up from below , was disconcerted by the picture she made . |
| 18 | but she leaves them with the neighbours or a neighbour , but I mean it 's all different to bringing them up yourself , in n it ? |
| 19 | ’ Bramble began , but she silenced him with a glare from the astonishing blue eyes . |
| 20 | But she stopped me with a look . |