Example sentences of "[noun pl] but she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't believe my ears but she repeated it : I realized I had not properly understood my own needs . |
| 2 | She could not communicate with their static sky-fires but she watched/felt/learned of the realities of Spiderglass on the Earth of a century before , back when industry meant manufacture or service and did n't encompass its environments or political power . |
| 3 | Tears again filled Joan 's eyes but she brushed them away . |
| 4 | For a moment , Donna felt tears welling up in her eyes but she fought back the pain , forced the thoughts away . |
| 5 | For a moment he refused to meet her eyes but she said his name . |
| 6 | He tipped up her chin so she had to look him in the eyes but she pulled her face away . |
| 7 | Well , she she waxes Lee 's legs but she goes |
| 8 | Miss Grimes had certainly been glad of the presents but she had not really seemed as destitute and lonely as Ianthe had expected — perhaps secretly even hoped — and she found herself resenting the way she had taken the violets . |
| 9 | But Miriam had noticed the slight intake of breath ; she had been perfectly aware that Louise might be shocked by her words but she had spoken them anyway , partly because she felt too weary not to say what she meant , partly because , though she liked Louise , she sometimes found her sweetness and prudish innocence rather cloying and it gratified her to offend them . |
| 10 | He could not distinguish her words but she sounded harassed and tense . |
| 11 | Craig made to put his arm around her shoulders but she held up her hand . |
| 12 | ‘ The woman involved was a married woman with a family and she and Philip had lived together for a couple of months but she decided to go back to her husband in September . ’ |
| 13 | She smacks her lips but she does n't say anything . |
| 14 | Loopy Lil had n't a steady enough hand for spillikins and she could n't count up to more than three for the dominoes but she seemed happy to watch and smile . |
| 15 | " She 's going to show me how to make brownies — little chocolate cakes but she calls them brownies . |
| 16 | A teaching job added to her duties but she began to write short stories . |
| 17 | Elisa had been expected to return too and continue her duties but she had decided to stay in Naples . |
| 18 | She was vaguely conscious of passing through occasional stations but she did n't wake up until a soft shaking of her shoulder gently brought her to life . |
| 19 | Her season began unpromisingly with an attack of shingles which kept her out of action for a couple of weeks but she recovered quickly and so completely that in addition to compiling her formidable record on the golf course , she was able to cope more than adequately with her school exams . |
| 20 | She finished her letter by saying that this must seem a very small matter to people suffering serious illnesses but she resented not feeling able to complain because of her fear of being seen as childish or neurotic . |
| 21 | and she do , she said she decided that , you know it was a bit , well I never change me post office , said I 've had it for all these years but she said it was a lovely bungalow and she says er what |
| 22 | She 'd lived in Leningrad for ten years but she 'd had no work for the last two of them . |
| 23 | the lady 's had it about ten years but she 's got a little dog as well . |
| 24 | Friends of Eleanor , 52 , said : ‘ Eleanor had known about Sandy 's friendship for two years but she decided enough was enough . ’ |
| 25 | Pamela had n't been to the tiny next-door island for years but she remembered its wild , deserted beaches , its spectacular rocky promontories , the surprising wheat fields among the rocky landscape that had given the island its name . |
| 26 | Colour touched her cheeks but she looked him straight in the eyes and was just about to reply when the kitchen door opened and Gerard 's solid footsteps sound along the hall . |
| 27 | Cecilia had passed Cambridge School several thousand times and been inside it several hundred times but she had never got over her feelings of loathing it . |
| 28 | She had already refilled his glass five or six times but she had no idea why he was drinking so much . |
| 29 | He had phoned a couple of times but she had been out . |
| 30 | I think they 've tried to send her out several times but she likes it there so she 's managed to discover fresh symptoms and stay on longer . |