Example sentences of "but she had [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ But she had no legal claim to it … ’ |
2 | But she had no satisfactory answer to that . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | But she had a strange feeling inside her , a feeling that something was going to happen . |
10 | But she had a terrible feeling she knew . |
11 | Oh lovely lass , Erica really nice , been married before , but she had a terrible life |
12 | ‘ But she had a certain something which men did find appealing . |
13 | Esther was no beauty , but she had a certain handsomeness about her , a particular wickedness he had not seen in other women . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Not nice but she had a strong character . |
16 | But she had a sudden change of heart and the pair were yesterday perched together for the first time . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | There was a little flabbiness in her lower belly , because she was a woman and not a girl , but she had a tight waist . |
22 | She , too , was Irish , but she had a soft voice and a kind face : her job was to teach sewing and singing . |
23 | Her figure , her posture , her attitude to him as a man , all suggested sexual awareness but she had a waspish tongue . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Controversy may have raged round the royal head of Marina Ogilvy but she had the good sense to choose a dress she could wear after her baby was born |
26 | ‘ Of course it would n't bother me ! ’ she replied at once , but she had the awful feeling that her denial lacked the ring of truth . |
27 | Molly Fletcher had been a pretty girl , but she had the faded air of a flower that has been transplanted into the wrong soil . |
28 | She wanted dearly to inform him in no uncertain terms that he was in no position to make personal remarks of any kind to her , but she had an uneasy suspicion that any further rebukes on that score would only somehow backfire on her . |
29 | But she had an old-fashioned regard for the truth ; and besides it was time that she gave Strauss another chance . |