Sentence examples for but she secured from inspiring English sources

She entered the tournament buying her own outfits, but she secured a sponsor between her fourth-round and quarterfinal victories.

The Belgrave Harrier has yet to recapture that form this summer but she secured her semi-final passage yesterday, clocking a season's best time of 12.86sec for fourth place in her first-round heat.

Every so often she'd give me a document to sign, and I'd reluctantly scrawl my name while saying something like, "If you ask me, wonky teeth add character to a child's face," but she secured the treatment, and by her industry – and her elbows – saved us several thousand pounds.

She graduated 3 years later than she might have, but she secured a paid job with a development agency straight away, which would have been nearly impossible without the credibility her experience gave her.

She would never achieve the wealth she'd hoped for (most of the money she earned from speaking engagements was spent paying a detective to find her barrel, which was stolen by her manager), but she secured her place in history: as the first person to survive the deadly Niagara drop, after nearly half a century of unsuccessful attempts by men.

In 1814 Borghese left to join her defeated brother on Elba, but before doing so she secured the sale of the hotel to the commander of the British Army the Duke of Wellington.

But her profile soared when she secured the role of Chummy as Call the Midwife is also broadcast in the US on the PBS network.

For a time, it was feared that Kate would have to become an offal-fettler like her grandfather, or a drug meddler like her uncle, but all that changed when she secured a place at the University of St Andrews.

On appeal, she secured a rerun but ended up failing even to get into the run-off.

But unless she secures a surprise retrial, America's best-known lifestyle guru will soon be behind bars.

She secured a construction loan in advance, but that took some shopping around.