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Example sentences for "but she"

  • Kokua said never a word, but she looked at the sea and laughed.

  • But she told me a gun was of no use with the like of these, which were the spirits of the dead.

  • He did not say this, but she understood it, and laughed, nodding good-by to him.

  • Her son Tonie had, but she supposed he would soon be back, and she invited Robert to be seated and wait for him.

  • The name of the piece was something else, but she called it "Solitude.

  • Of course Edna would like to hear Mademoiselle Reisz play; but she feared it would be useless to entreat her.

  • An awful good sort, and goes about a good deal in Society, but she has an awkward habit of losing her memory every now and then, and gets into all sorts of fixes.

  • My aunt particularly hoped you would keep to your room and not add to the confusion, but she thought it would be so kind of you if you would take in Hartlepool's Wonder, the gamecock, you know, for the night.

  • The actress was not in the car at the time, but she was in numerous photographs which appeared in the illustrated papers of Zoto Dobreen inquiring after the well-being of Maisie, daughter of Edmund Smith-Paddon, Esq.

  • That remains to be seen," said Vera, but she said it to herself.

  • He begged her pardon, but she must be applied to, to explain Italian again.

  • The idea of Louisa Musgrove turned into a person of literary taste, and sentimental reflection was amusing, but she had no doubt of its being so.

  • But she was a very good woman, and if her second object was to be sensible and well-judging, her first was to see Anne happy.

  • Mary knew that the investigations were still being carried on, but she had a vague sense of their gradually slackening, as the actual march of time seemed to slacken.

  • But she couldn't bear not to have all the drawing-rooms with her.

  • But she persisted, as if to exonerate herself from the inward charge of being too easily put off.

  • She did not answer, but she thought to herself, with an impulse of whimsical inconsistency, "Unless you slammed the door and wore creaking boots.

  • But she found no one in the court but an under-gardener raking the gravel, and the hall, when she entered it, was so silent that she guessed Boyne to be still at work behind the closed door of the library.

  • But she must be consulted; at any rate informed.

  • But she forbore to utter this feeling, and the reticence of her tongue only made the loquacity of her face the more noticeable.

  • But she has a will--not to say a temper, and I shall be a mere slave to her.

  • They've been wanting to lock up the door these two hours, but she isn't come in.

  • I found her where I had found her the evening before, but she met my quick challenge with blank, scared ignorance.

  • But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the hall.

  • Her chin was pressed so closely against her foot, that there was hardly room to open her mouth; but she did it at last, and managed to swallow a morsel of the lefthand bit.

  • She did not get hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or something of the sort.

  • But she began to take a melancholy pleasure in contemplating the sacrifice of herself to the man whom a maidenly sense of propriety compelled her to regard as her only possible husband.

  • But she's not a wild child at all, Mr. Smith.

  • The young lady who had so materially assisted him had done the same, but she reappeared, properly clothed, about five o'clock.

  • He still held her hands, but she felt no tremor in his, and the blood did not stir in his brown cheek.

  • She was not afraid now; but she felt a deep inward stillness.

  • Darrow perceived that she classified people according to their greater or less "luck" in life, but she appeared to harbour no resentment against the undefined power which dispensed the gift in such unequal measure.

  • Mrs. Leath, on this occasion, was no less kind than before; but she contrived to make him understand that what was so inevitably coming was not to come too soon.

  • I can't tell you yet where he found his dryad, but she IS one, I believe: at any rate she'll become the Givre woods better than I do.

  • It comes into my mind whenever I see Ruth; but she has no sister.

  • The beautiful eyes of Helena were heavy with tears; but she no longer trembled, for she knew the crisis was yet to come.

  • Her eyes were fixed upon the convulsed face, but she beheld it not: all the concentrated forces of her life flowed into the music.

  • But she comes at a good time, and we will look into this matter forthwith.

  • But she fancied me asleep while she was talking of it.

  • But she--the naughty baggage--little will she care what they put upon the bodice of her gown!

  • But she said it with a hesitation that did not escape the acuteness of the child.

  • She did backs very well, but she was a little weak in faces.

  • At last the fiacre arrived, but she waited a moment longer.

  • I think she 's an actress, but she believes in her part while she is playing it.

  • When I woke in the morning, I went to her, hoping to have my globe again, whole and sound; but she sent me away without it, and I have not seen it since.

  • I kneeled, however, and kissed the pale coffin; but she slept on.

  • I have found her," replied the knight, "but she is sorely hurt.

  • But she is a dear good girl; she is a charming species of girl.

  • But she said to herself that Kitty had been misinformed--that this was a traveler's tale.

  • The young girl looked away; but she smiled, laying aside her impressiveness.

  • This eased her of anxiety for the immediate future; but she had to rouse herself to feel any sense of relief.

  • Evelina's a mite nervous sometimes, but she ain't a bit sickly.

  • A lady visitor at the hospital was kind, and found her a place where she did housework; but she was so weak they couldn't keep her.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "but she" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    buffalo were; but all; but always; but especially; but for all that; but found; but has; but have eternal life; but her eyes were; but many; but not being able; but only; but she only said; but something; but sometimes; but the greatest part; but the next instant; but there; but they shall not; but they would not; but this; but though; but upon; but who; buttered paper; early morning