Example sentences of "but she have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother had said that it was all very well to mock but she had stood many long hours at auctions all over the city finding the right pieces . |
| 2 | But she had to give some thought to him , too . |
| 3 | Howe 's resignation played a vital part ; but she had survived that of the Chancellor , Lawson , a year before . |
| 4 | But she had guessed wrong . |
| 5 | But she had made huge progress , Lisa congratulated herself as she got ready to pack up at the end of another exhausting day . |
| 6 | But she had recognized faint glimmerings of fanaticism in his recent actions . |
| 7 | She told Anne that the man , Ronald , had sent a taxi to take her to the dance and had bought her a casket of chocolates as they went in , but she had felt uneasy several times during the evening . |
| 8 | This question , said Mrs B , seemed to be of particular significance , but she had felt unable to make any sense of it . |
| 9 | The house was big and old , with a lot more corridors and rooms and unexpected turns than seemed necessary , but she had done enough of these ‘ entertainments ’ to be familiar with the lower storeys . |
| 10 | Breeze was not a nervous person in the ordinary way , but she had undergone many strange experiences that day , and this additional shock seemed to rob her of all her courage . |
| 11 | The front screen was unmarked , but she had anticipated that . |
| 12 | But she had forgotten all the warnings . |
| 13 | She had tried to explain this feeling to Gay and Felicity , when they had come out of the Jade Cockatoo on their last night together ; but she had known all the time that it was n't a thing that could be explained . |
| 14 | But she had known this encounter was coming ever since she and Florian had attracted the attention of the photographers covering the concert at one of Taipei 's main sports stadiums the previous night . |
| 15 | Damn her own voice for shaking , but she had known this was never going to be easy . |
| 16 | He was a good-looking man with his jet-black hair and intimidating jawline , but she had encountered any number far more handsome , yet none had stirred her the way he could with a single glance from those incredible eyes . |
| 17 | But she had had enough . |
| 18 | But she had spent many years perfecting the art of the memo . |
| 19 | She had never said so , certainly , because she hated to admit that she minded anything , but she had seemed evasive about the future , and had shown no great enthusiasm over the journalistic course she was going to take . |
| 20 | But she had to admit that , realistically , he probably meant that she annoyed him beyond measure and that he was hard put to it to treat her civilly . |
| 21 | He told himself she understood him because , like him , she was knackermeat , really — but she had come lucky . |
| 22 | It was hard to ask , but she had to make sure . |
| 23 | Afghans , he went on , had been optimistic when Miss Bhutto came to power but she had betrayed all her promises to settle the Afghan conflict . |
| 24 | The tenants ' rent books had been correctly marked up by her , but she had put different figures into the ledger and cash book . |
| 25 | Her eyepatch apart , she bore no obvious scars , but she had fought many battles , vanquished many foes . |
| 26 | Mrs Lydan 's husband Bill died last year but she 'd kept dozens of stones , and pieces of jewellery which he 's given her over the years . |
| 27 | Isabelle might have left her the case , but she 'd hidden these things away , making sure they would n't be discovered at least while her husband was alive . |
| 28 | She 'd crept out through her bedroom window , but she 'd left half a dozen coarse blonde hairs behind her , flickering on the damaged flyscreen wire , like evidence . |
| 29 | that 's no big deal , but she 'd found that out in about five minutes ! |
| 30 | But she 'd got this little bit of oh I do n't know , a little bit of coarseness about her . |