Example sentences of "but [det] [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that brought her into contact with his hot , hard body , and she strained away again , aware of his sharp intake of breath at her quivering shudder . |
| 2 | She would have spat in his face , but that struck her as being unladylike . |
| 3 | The notes are pertinent to the exhibition , but left me slightly disquieted : the style of writing is , appropriately , neither fact not fiction , but this allows her to make shifts through sleights of words which in more academic circumstances would beg fuller exposition . |
| 4 | If Tom had asked her to give extra blood , then they were definitely planning to transfuse , but this told her nothing about whether the baby would be delivered that night . |
| 5 | The girl 's serious little face was delicate , rounded , promising that she would soon flower into at least as striking a beauty as her mother ; in an attempt to make her smile Joseph winked theatrically at her , but this made her draw closer to her mother and she continued to gaze gravely back at him with the curious , unselfconscious eyes of childhood . |
| 6 | There were a few females who were hostile , but most liked her . |