Example sentences of "but [conj] i looked [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The guides claimed to have taken us to the edge of the Sahara but when I looked on a map it was the Atlas mountains , the bastards . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ That 's just what I said to myself when I woke up this morning , but when I looked on the floor , there was the veil , torn in two halves ! ’ |
| 3 | But when I looked at the date , my father could only have been about twelve year old you see , when these letters were written so it must have been my grandfather writing to Coventry and Birmingham for parts for the penny farthing bicycles which he worked on . |
| 4 | But when I looked over the edge there was no sign of him , or of the river — only the mist swirling . |
| 5 | But when I looked in the ZZAP ! |