Example sentences of "but she [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she received a warm smile from the housekeeper for her efforts , and as the housekeeper said something in Czech to her employer and , presumably with something to do elsewhere , left the kitchen , Vendelin Gajdusek turned his attention to Fabia . |
| 2 | she has always been great , but she made a tremendous jump when she started recording decent songs instead of versions of old R'n' B tracks . |
| 3 | Little Maureen was agitated , but she made a nice speech . |
| 4 | Julia heard the name ‘ Jonathan ’ , but she made a determined effort not to translate the Italian words , knowing how much the two of them must need privacy . |
| 5 | Karen said : ‘ I know Rebecca had been feeling homesick , but she got a new job which was keeping her busy . |
| 6 | She was not quite tall enough to reach things around the kitchen , but she kept a small box in the outhouse which she brought in and stood on in order to get whatever she wanted . |
| 7 | She had n't been privy to the goings on at the opposite end of the table , but she had a distinct , almost tactile memory of the girl fleeing , the usual calm repose of her features fractured . |
| 8 | Compared with Maud she was too tall and thin , and her mouth was too wide , but she had a simple grace which remained in his memory long after her features were blurred by time . |
| 9 | The three words were not a great deal for Carrie to pin her hopes to , but she had a warm and happy glow deep inside her as she let herself in at the door of the cottage . |
| 10 | She was not a beauty , it had to be said , but she had a good figure , enough sense to make a good wife and mother , was practical and kind-natured . |
| 11 | It irritated her to think that she had n't been doing anything reckless like running to catch a bus ; but she had a private theory that an old person did n't break a hip because she fell , but fell because her hip snapped , after gradual erosion . |
| 12 | But she had a strange temperament and we Were told by one man who worked for John Sayer and had helped to break her in that she was n't right in the head . |
| 13 | But she had a strange feeling inside her , a feeling that something was going to happen . |
| 14 | But she had a terrible feeling she knew . |
| 15 | Oh lovely lass , Erica really nice , been married before , but she had a terrible life |
| 16 | ‘ But she had a certain something which men did find appealing . |
| 17 | Esther was no beauty , but she had a certain handsomeness about her , a particular wickedness he had not seen in other women . |
| 18 | She could not be to Pen as Minnie was to Miss Arabel since there was a mother in between but she had a great desire to see her former charge treat her as freely when he reached manhood . |
| 19 | Not nice but she had a strong character . |
| 20 | But she had a sudden change of heart and the pair were yesterday perched together for the first time . |
| 21 | Her wet boots made footprints on the dusty floor and she still wore an apron over her black skirt , but she had a fine air about her . |
| 22 | From where she stood , Melissa could see them only in profile , but she had a shrewd idea that they were holding hands and that Dora 's apparent indifference to their presence was concealing a mounting irritation . |
| 23 | She was n't tall and she was slightly heavy , but she had a pleasing face with soft eyes ; perhaps she 'd never be a beauty , but age would never make her ugly either . |
| 24 | She would never be a great beauty , he knew , but she had a natural charm and personality that lent an extra depth to her character , and he imagined that this would have been how his mother would have looked at a similar age . |
| 25 | There was a little flabbiness in her lower belly , because she was a woman and not a girl , but she had a tight waist . |
| 26 | She , too , was Irish , but she had a soft voice and a kind face : her job was to teach sewing and singing . |
| 27 | Her figure , her posture , her attitude to him as a man , all suggested sexual awareness but she had a waspish tongue . |
| 28 | She was forgetting everything else — the sub-language she spoke , things she knew , chunks of her past , people she had killed — but she had a clear memory of the way the world really looked . |
| 29 | That would be expecting too much , surely , but she said a small prayer to herself that it might be so . |
| 30 | But she managed a composed smile as she took the phone . |