Example sentences of "[adv] but she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They had been living together but she said she was leaving him , ’ said Mr Ben Hemo . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , she did n't like the idea much but she said she 'd try . ’ |
| 3 | She had not liked him very much but she judged him to be one of those unfortunate men who dislike their neighbours even more than they dislike themselves and as such he was to be pitied , plodding on from day to day among his bingo-playing telly-watching parishioners . |
| 4 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |
| 5 | He liked Hana 's mother well enough but she had just refused to learn any English at all , and every visit was a strain . |
| 6 | The position was clear enough but she thought she ought to enlarge . |
| 7 | He liked Isobel well enough but she seemed to him to bring , as did most of the other women deacons in the diocese , a fussy , housekeeping approach to Christianity , a domestic preoccupation with women and children and primary schools , that irked him . |
| 8 | She seems outgoing enough but she keeps things locked inside her . |
| 9 | I did n't use her weaknesses enough but she used mind properly . |
| 10 | And then I thought I would write and suggest that she should suggest herself to tea one day and not only did she have the effrontery to do so but she brought her husband . |
| 11 | I got a new book today so but she taught that is was ha ! |
| 12 | Her new liver took straight away but she had to go on a ventilator because she was having problems with her lungs . ’ |
| 13 | He claims he only pushed her away but she fell back onto the knife . |
| 14 | I mean it it sounds stupid , but a person I knew , she was about as stupid as i was as naive as I was , because er she was pregnant , her husband was n't away but she 'd got how many , five , four children , she 'd lost three children and she 'd got , then she had four , and then she found herself pregnant again . |
| 15 | She told me how she wrote several letters to her home complaining of the punishment she was given and begging to be taken away but she received no reply until one day her brother paid her a visit and gave her the news that their parents were both dead . |
| 16 | Shortly before Mrs Harvey was raped , the man attacked a 25-year-old woman half-a-mile away but she escaped . |
| 17 | Yussuf tried to urge her away but she resisted his efforts . |
| 18 | Cos mum made me laugh tonight but she came in and she said oh you can have a hot cross bun there , I said well I think I 'll have a piece of chocolate cake and she said alright then ! |
| 19 | was actually going to get the information for tonight but she has n't been able to and I have n't seen her . |
| 20 | The police would have to know about this visit , of course ; her conscience persistently reminded her that she should have informed Harris already but she silenced it by telling herself that a few hours would make no difference . |
| 21 | He caught them and tried to hold her still but she fought him like a spitting cat . |
| 22 | and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week |
| 23 | His nostrils flared dangerously but she stood her ground . |
| 24 | Constance wanted to run home but she knew that she could n't leave her bike . |
| 25 | He 'd wanted to escort her home but she had threatened to commit arson if he came within a quarter of a mile of the theatre . |
| 26 | I approached her carefully but she leaned away as I stretched out my hand . |
| 27 | It was rare for Frau Nordern to kiss her husband affectionately but she did so now , kissing him on the cheek and ruffling his hair . |
| 28 | It had in fact gone out minutes before but she had n't noticed . |
| 29 | He had said that before but she had not believed him . |
| 30 | Pat Yot had never been entrusted with such responsibility before but she had become a friend of the family ; to Bernard and Laura loyalty and energy mattered far more than experience . |