Example sentences of "but she found " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she found it was a different school with different faces . |
| 2 | But she found that she did n't need them any more . |
| 3 | She did n't know how it happened , but she found herself in Mrs Lennox 's arms , who comforted her as though she were a child . |
| 4 | But she found that background sound levels at New York 's J. F. Kennedy international airport are 51–98 decibels — nearly as loud as an approaching aircraft ( Environmental Pollution . |
| 5 | By some miracle she had hung on to her job with the Caring Chauvinist , but she found it exhausting coping with that , and running the house , and looking after Perdita , and more and more after Violet and Eddie . |
| 6 | But she found hardly anyone who wanted to talk to her afterwards apart from an American girl who admired her frock , and asked her to guess what they had had for luncheon . |
| 7 | But she found there was no escaping the front line … |
| 8 | Jane had English and biology A-levels , but she found that anyone could enrol as a mature student for training in speech therapy ; however , entry to courses is becoming increasingly competitive . |
| 9 | Ostensibly her idea was a good one , but she found that praise was , for that child , not a reward at all ; in fact it led to his communicating with her less often . |
| 10 | Tessa , a keen machine knitter , was a little nervous as she had just moved from the South and was conscious of the supposed North/South divide but she found the warmest welcome . |
| 11 | The world looked real again , but she found herself wanting to put the glasses on again . |
| 12 | She read with avidity the endlessly cosy adventures of wealthy children on farms and in smugglers ' caves and country houses , but she found built into them a warning against too much belief . |
| 13 | Topaz searched his face for some indication that her mission would be successful , but she found no hint of benevolence . |
| 14 | She made excuses for them , but she found them depressing . |
| 15 | Clare had not wanted to leave Josh ( who would be three in December ) with a babysitter , but she found that none of the local nursery schools , public or private , had an available slot . |
| 16 | She thought it would not be possible to talk about this to anyone — my burden and I must bear it , she had believed — but she found herself discussing it easily and naturally and very trustingly with Raynor . |
| 17 | Helen had been trying to learn for some time , but she found it very hard although Tony was endlessly patient with her . |
| 18 | Sarah had been able to attend the caelidhes again , warned by her mother that she must not do more than two dances , but she found them greatly changed . |
| 19 | Anne had to make many detours to reach the factory and felt triumphant when she arrived there , but she found that most of the women had come in . |
| 20 | But she found herself talking to the empty room , and the sky outside the window was the untroubled blue of a peaceful July morning . |
| 21 | But she found it hard to work , with all the distractions of the household . |
| 22 | After 1914 she concentrated on teaching , but she found time to compile an attitude survey , the Women 's Industrial Council report on Domestic Service ( 1916 ) , and her pamphlet on Village Survey-Making ( 1929 ) encouraged country schools to hunt out information about the past and present of their localities . |
| 23 | He was quite outrageous and she knew she should not have so much as smiled , but she found herself laughing with him . |
| 24 | Jack hid in the churn , but she found him and turned it round and round . |
| 25 | No doubt this ability to mask his thoughts and feelings was vital in the cut-throat world he inhabited , but she found it unnerving . |
| 26 | No one introduced him , but she found out his name later from a newspaper . |
| 27 | She felt comfortable in casual clothes and wore them most of the time , but she found herself wishing that , just for once , she had put on something rather more dressy . |
| 28 | But she found that she could not tear her eyes away from him . |
| 29 | It should n't have taken her long to pack and change out of her sundress into a skirt and blouse , but she found she was folding each garment at least twice , and several times she stood looking out of the window at the busy yard below . |
| 30 | But she found it impossible not to respond — either to him , or to everything around them . |