Example sentences of "but [verb] she [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't look around when she came in , but asked her over the sizzling of bacon whether she wanted anything to drink . |
| 2 | True , he 'd had that weird feeling in the hall , but seeing her on the landing a moment ago had been no illusion . |
| 3 | So she was relieved , but at the same time a little chagrined when he did n't stop the car at all but drove her to the bottom of the footpath that led up to the Hoflin farm . |
| 4 | Finally , she left for the airfield in a pale-green safari suit , which marked her a soldier 's wife but distinguished her from the lesser spouses . |
| 5 | Corbett had no choice but told her from the beginning of the events at Godstowe . |
| 6 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 7 | Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting . |
| 8 | Still gripping Nicola 's shirt , Goldman pulled her in and punched her , missing her face when she lurched away from the blow , but taking her on the body . |
| 9 | I could not stay , but left her in the care of the doctor and several nurses , and returned to London . |
| 10 | A profane woman , on whom he had committed profane acts ; yet he could not help but see her with the child at her breast as holy . |