Example sentences of "but she [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she also had alliances with people nearer her own age , notably with a wild young postgraduate architect , a hard-drinking , reckless , one-off character called Colin Lindsey , who was already provided with a wife and a baby , but who would nevertheless take his turn to sit on Esther 's beaded rug . |
| 2 | But she also had living there a Colonel Stringer who was quite an important Scots Officer , three of his servants and a sergeant and one other soldier , so she had 6 extra people . |
| 3 | But she also said Hawick wanted her to give up her partnership here and she did n't think she could bear to . ’ |
| 4 | Rachel was kinder and gentler towards her than she had ever been before ; but she also required Phoebe to take responsibility for the baby , to be a good mother , to take heed for the morrow . |
| 5 | But she also liked Therese , who had made a point of introducing her to Hans Kramer , the big Viennese agent . |
| 6 | But she immediately snatched Victoria , who had been born only 32 hours before , and started giving her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation . |
| 7 | The crowd slowed her progress , but she soon caught sight of him again , heading towards the door . |
| 8 | Call it developing female insight , but SHe somehow knew Malamute was a man with a secret , a man in disguise , and also a man who knew the way SHe could turn this whole mess into an advantage . |
| 9 | Her name was Penelope but she quickly became Penny in the factory . |
| 10 | But she absolutely idolised Garth , which was a big factor in my deciding to marry him . ’ |
| 11 | Boz made the announcement as though expecting Dolly to argue with him , but she merely nodded acknowledgement of his statement . |
| 12 | His mother used to visit his older brother Simon and make a bit of a fuss of him but she totally blanked Nick and he was hurt . |
| 13 | But she still made change . |
| 14 | The fad had n't lasted to her time , but she still remembered articles in the learned techno-archaeology journals . |
| 15 | Buzz did n't know what was going on , but she certainly smelled dishonesty : it probably involved fraud , and it probably involved Adam . |
| 16 | And yet , despising her , Luke could n't resist her any more than she could him — but she alone had love to justify the weakness . |
| 17 | He held for Alice altogether a great fascination , but she steadfastly refused offers to go and see him in the nursery , and ignored him the few occasions he was on show . |
| 18 | He designed and built it specially for his wife because she 'd always wanted to live by the river , but she only had time to enjoy it for a few months before she died . |
| 19 | I regularly asked Erica Brausen , the Hanover 's director , if she would visit my studio to see what I was up to but she never had time to take a taxi from Hanover Street to Highgate . |
| 20 | And Carol liked to come through and just tinker but she never got lessons or anything so we just sold it . |
| 21 | But she never liked Haworth , I am sure of that . |
| 22 | She talked freely about the many young men she and Sarah had been out with , and sometimes had the women in fits of laughter , but she never mentioned John . |
| 23 | She ran off screaming but she never pulled faces at us again if Dad was around . |
| 24 | But she never spoke Welsh . |
| 25 | She hated Gilbert Blythe , but she really loved Diana . |
| 26 | Carrie had been listening intently , enthralled and hanging on to the union man 's every word , but she suddenly caught sight of Fred standing at the counter . |