Example sentences of "but [conj] she [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trollope evidently shares Jane Austen 's preference for past community to present isolation ; but where she felt those sites to be alternatives , he knows that the first is a part of history . |
| 2 | The General assured her they had thought long on the matter , and had decided not only that it would be a suitable appointment for her , but that she had much to contribute to social services . |
| 3 | But although she became pregnant several times , she miscarried on each occasion . |
| 4 | But although she escaped personal attack , the reviews of the £20 million blockbuster were far from ‘ perfick ’ . |
| 5 | Stevie might have tended to exaggerate , but although she had rich parents , she worked as a waitress in Los Angeles to support Lindsey , and they roughed it around a bit . |
| 6 | But if she did that John would n't be able to let himself in with his key . |
| 7 | Glancing at him , she was tempted to tease him about the sugar he had borrowed earlier , but if she did that it would amount to a tacit admission that he was right about her behaviour . |
| 8 | His voice sounded unbelievably distant , cold , and she was very tempted to ignore it , but if she did that he would come in anyway , she knew that , and she did after all want to talk to him , did n't she ? |
| 9 | I am her brother from the wood , but until she gets older , that 's all I am . |
| 10 | Not just because she was the same age , but because she had such a dreadful illness , just when she should be enjoying life . |
| 11 | She submits , not because she is threatened with or fears immediate violence , but because she feels helpless to resist in a situation in which he is all-powerful and she is powerless . |
| 12 | Not just because Jancey say you need helping , but because she say these are people who ai n't from round here . |
| 13 | It was always beautiful from here , but since she had last seen it , her view of life had changed . |
| 14 | But before she did that she would have to become famous at something else so that it would be extra sad when she renounced the world and went to work in a leper colony . |
| 15 | I do n't know how she managed to find the time , but when she got older she also played the organ for the Sunday services at the local Methodist chapel , as well as running the choir practices . |
| 16 | She could n't really afford it and when she needed a new cylinder it had to be humped up three flights of stairs , always a nuisance for which she had to enlist the help of one of her boyfriends , but when she got cold Theresa 's fingers turned numb , white , bloodless lumps that no longer seemed to belong to her hands . |
| 17 | No , but when she sent this you 'd think that maybe she would put in it |
| 18 | But when she saw these things written they seemed , and were , stale , deja-vu , derivative . |
| 19 | Mildred closed her eyes again , hoping that perhaps it was only a nightmare , but when she sneaked another look , the apparition was still there , and now it began patting gently at Mildred with its gigantic paws . |
| 20 | But when she pushed open the door and walked out on to the terrace the only car to be seen was their family-sized four-door saloon hired from Pisa airport . |
| 21 | Her gentle requests for him to sit down met with only short term success but when she used this scolding method his behaviour became far worse . |
| 22 | She had once thought of herself as unique , had been encouraged ( in theory at least ) by her education and by her reading to believe in the individual self , the individual soul , but as she grew older she increasingly questioned these concepts : seeing people perhaps more as flickering impermanent points of light irradiating stretches , intersections , threads , of a vast web , a vast network , which was humanity itself : a web of which much remained dark , apparently but not necessarily unpeopled : peopled by the dark , the unlit , the dim spirits , as yet unknown , the past and the future , the dead , the unborn : and herself , and Brian , and Liz , and Charles , and Esther , and Teddy Lazenby , and Otto and Caroline Werner , and all the rest of them at that bright party , and in these discreet anonymous dark curtained avenues and crescents were but chance and fitful illuminations , chance meetings , chance and unchosen representatives of the thing itself . |
| 23 | She urged an inquiry , but as she explained some months later , ‘ This was brusquely and rudely refused by Mr. Merlyn Rees , the then Secretary of State , on the grounds that my allegations were untrue . ’ |