Example sentences of "but she had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instinctively she made to move away before Travis awoke , but she had scarcely budged when a strong hand clamped down over hers , holding her still . |
| 2 | But she had barely gone two steps along the corridor when something moved out of the shadows . |
| 3 | She had felt flattered , nervous , tentative , bold to be acting the companion to the even bolder Colonel : but she had also felt locked into that happiness ; of right . |
| 4 | Oh , she loved Lizzy with all her being , Evelyn knew that , but she had also channelled her energy into her work . |
| 5 | It was due to take place the last week in August and Mrs Bennett who , since the death of her husband , had lived with her married daughter , had promised to ‘ see it through ’ , as she put it ; but she had also made it quite clear that she had no desire to stay on permanently , as Celia had hoped . |
| 6 | On the previous days they had been out to some meals , but she had also cooked for them . |
| 7 | On going back downstairs in her working clothes to do the washing up , she felt a quiet pride : not only had she now achieved the status of a married woman , but she had also had a proper wedding with a cake and an attendant — which was more than did most girls of her class . |
| 8 | But she had also issued a proclamation forbidding all preaching and teaching . |
| 9 | He turned to Marian but she had already plunged far down into unconsciousness , overwhelmed by the need for sleep . |
| 10 | But she had already felt the tremor of unstable ground beneath her feet and , throwing herself back from the danger zone , she was in time to prevent herself falling into the stream . |
| 11 | But she had already begun to feel ill with shame at the fear that no one would choose her , the way she always felt when they picked teams at school . |
| 12 | She was cut off tragically at the height of her powers , but she had already made her mark : a crucial contribution to one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century , and work on two major biological problems and the techniques for solving them , that helped lay the foundations of structural molecular biology . |
| 13 | But she had already lost her balance as she impossibly tried to juggle Equal Opportunities , shortage of staff and time , and the torrent of ‘ open access ’ job applications . |
| 14 | If she happened to bump into Lexy one day , it would do no harm to relieve her curiosity by some subtle questioning , but she had already established , by listening at the dinner table , that her supposed ‘ rival ’ was not among those present . |
| 15 | But she had already found immortality . |
| 16 | Like every country , Portugal had its own traditions , its own festivals , its own special holidays — such as when independence from the Spanish back in 1640 was celebrated , or the more recent revolution was remembered — but she had yet to fix the dates in her mind . |
| 17 | But she had yet to get her business started . |
| 18 | He liked Hana 's mother well enough but she had just refused to learn any English at all , and every visit was a strain . |
| 19 | But she had just settled down , flicking the control through a dozen or so channels until she found the one she wanted , when the door opened and Marc himself came in . |
| 20 | Joseph had accompanied her willingly , but she had soon noticed that his manner was subdued and cool towards her , and this had added a vague new dimension to her unease . |
| 21 | School had been tiring at first on transfer but she had soon got used to it : originally she had belonged to a number of clubs in the early day ( Thursday ) when all such activities take place , but now preferred to go home early . |
| 22 | She knew what had happened but she had completely forgotten the details — including the description of the perpetrator . |
| 23 | Not an easy tongue to master at such short notice , but she had always felt it was a basic courtesy for a tourist to make some attempt , however feeble , to communicate in the tongue of the host country . |
| 24 | Occasionally , Mr Landor would accuse her of stealing from him when he had mislaid a silver spoon or could not find a precious paperknife , but she had always treated these accusations with the contempt they deserved . |
| 25 | ‘ But she had always wanted to be in uniform , so eventually became a policewoman . |
| 26 | ‘ Drive anything , ’ said Gabriel , which was a complete lie , but she had always longed to get her hands on Rose 's car . |
| 27 | She had never been a snob in the unpleasant sense of the word , but she had always set great store by Father 's material success , and later by my having been to Oxford and then on my becoming a doctor . |
| 28 | Her father disapproved of him , and had said so , but she had always thought that he would come round to her point of view . |
| 29 | Her mother had stated then that it would probably not be necessary to move again , but she had always shied off from friendships — so many of them had been lost before . |
| 30 | But she had only checked in a very recent volume . |