Example sentences of "but she [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip brought his young bride Ann Escourt to his ‘ new mansion ’ , as a neighbour described it , but she died within three years at the age of twenty-four and is buried here in the churchyard . |
| 2 | And then six or seven years later I married again , but she died in nineteen seventy-three . |
| 3 | They married in 1945 , but she died in 1986 and he has since married again . |
| 4 | He was attached to his mother , but she died in 1926 , while Nasser was away living with his uncle in Cairo . |
| 5 | There was an old lady in it , but she quit at five to eight . |
| 6 | But she had for several years been living a life which the word frugal does not even begin to describe accurately . |
| 7 | Every word he spoke was true ; but she fought with all her will against the impulse to agree to his face . |
| 8 | Sara did not care to be beholden to Matthew Preston for even one pupil , but she knew at this moment she could not afford to be choosey . |
| 9 | Jo loathed her blobby nose , her receding chin , her long body , her short legs , her droopy ass , her fat thighs , her white skin that absolutely refused to tan and her brown hair which frizzed and which her mother would n't even let her frost ; she accepted that she would never look like Faye Dunaway , never be a Prom Queen and that most of her body was a total disaster area , but she knew with absolute certainty that she had great tits . |
| 10 | But she knew with bleak certainty that , once she 'd left it , she would never , ever come back . |
| 11 | Enya claims to be stubborn , sulky and contrary where her composition is concerned , but she knew from unfortunate personal experience the natural anarchy and entropy of bands and very rationally allowed Nicky and Roma 's professional advice to guide her in the right direction . |
| 12 | But she probed on undeterred . |
| 13 | The crowd at the Cleveland County Stadium rose to salute Matthew 's efforts but she finished in 10 mins 20.4 secs , four hundredths of a second outside the qualifying time . |
| 14 | She has been coughing but she worked with sufficient sparkle at Lambourn on Saturday to persuade trainer Barry Hills that she is ready to put her reputation on the line . |
| 15 | Her faith in him was severely tested later , especially in 1908 and again in 1913 ; but she drew on deep reservoirs of resilience until the anxieties of his last year as a soldier began to sap her energies as housekeeper , mother , and gardener . |
| 16 | But she stayed on this balcony , her eyes on him , on this shape which fear had reduced to animal idiocy . |
| 17 | In fact it did — five months ago Wendy conceived , but she miscarried after five weeks . |
| 18 | One day she fell and broke her hip : it was repaired in hospital but she remained in some pain and was even more precarious on her feet . |