Example sentences of "but she [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't think so , ’ she said , but she expressed the truth so artfully it sounded almost as if there was a possibility . |
| 2 | But she thanked the Lord that Reverend Morey had n't become a Governor sooner , for then everyone would have known about Angel , and James 's plump and prissy wife might have discovered her husband had fathered a bastard . |
| 3 | There was the taste of death in the kiss , but she accepted the price with the prize , and clung to the bitterness and the bliss alike , knowing them for ever inseparable now . |
| 4 | Kate was still looking at Peter but she accepted the change of subject smoothly , like a skilful footballer changing tack to cope with a pass from an unexpected direction . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , I must , ’ she said gaily , but she accepted the offer of coffee , and , waiting for it to arrive , said , ‘ Now it is my turn to quiz you . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , Tim , ’ sighed Scarlet , but she thought the sentiments sounded more like Constance 's . |
| 7 | The stone steps were narrow , and she did n't like stone steps , they were greasy when wet , but she made the bottom of them and inserted the key in the lock . |
| 8 | It took her some time to get used to that but she got the knack of it in the end , and they spent hours together shooting at marks , or at rabbits on the Down or pigeons in the high trees at the forest edge . |
| 9 | It was a costly whisper , but she got the message . |
| 10 | But she got the job , with consequences which neither she nor Eliot could then have foreseen . |
| 11 | and she says she sat , she sat er still you know with her arms folded and all like that and she says , oh she says I think you er collect the books and stamp them and put them back on the shelves and she said they all laughed , but she got the job in opposition to er , a few others you know |
| 12 | She was a bit shaky but she got the children 's breakfast and cleared up Bob 's . |
| 13 | The only thing Lisa wanted to do was flee , but she summoned the strength from somewhere to step back into the office , pinning a brave smile to her face . |
| 14 | But she ruled the roost : ‘ I do n't like the heat . |
| 15 | But she rejected the notion as he leaned back against the cushions and took a quick swig of his brandy . |
| 16 | But she forced the Volvo into first , the engine screaming as she drove fifteen or twenty yards down the road . |
| 17 | Robyn 's voice shook , but she forced the words out . |
| 18 | Her education had been sketchy , vague in the extreme , but she understood the law as she had always seen it in operation around her . |
| 19 | But she kept the thought to herself . |
| 20 | She had lost her cap , and so could not again conceal the glory of her hidden beauty , but she twisted the plait in a knot behind her head and clipped it there as best she could with the two pins she had found , so that it resembled the thick queue of a man 's old-fashioned wig . |
| 21 | She blanked out the sudden picture of white sands and her and Lucy in a scented olive-grove evening … her heart panted to slake its thirst with dreaming , but she slammed the scenes of happiness as illusion , mirage . |
| 22 | He tried to calm her , but she slammed the phone down on him . |
| 23 | The mare was not as fast as Grye but she had the edge on the stallion when it came to jumping , and Seb did not intend stopping to open any gates . |
| 24 | Brave words , but she had the genes of the unknown Richard Redford in her veins even if he did n't show on her birth certificate . |
| 25 | Mrs Phelps was more stunned than ever , but she had the sense not to show it . |
| 26 | No she went and had the abortion but she had the child eventually . |
| 27 | She still could n't quite believe any of this was really happening , but she had the feeling that Julius was about to make her believe it — and in the most delightful way possible . |
| 28 | She was not destined to be a great painter but she had the confidence and luck to be a successful one . |
| 29 | Nenna 's character was faulty , but she had the instinct to see what made other people unhappy , and this instinct had only failed her once , in the case of her own husband . |
| 30 | She looked like a beautiful young girl , but she had the hardness of an old woman . |