Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 've fallen on to the floor often enough to know how to get up . |
| 2 | I used to but I 've given up since my accident . ’ |
| 3 | But I 've grown up with David , or , should I say , I grew up idolising him . |
| 4 | Cos she used to say , ‘ I never had daughters but I 've ended up with three . ’ |
| 5 | But I 've stopped off at a street market on the way over for socks and shirts and thin garish underpants . |
| 6 | " But I 've failed up to now ? " |
| 7 | But I 've copied over to the same place , what it seems to be doing provided the cell pointed out , you 're looking at the top left . |
| 8 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
| 9 | More camera tips , but I had run out of film and mimed to avoid denting his enthusiasm . |
| 10 | I was supposed to be running the operation but I got caught up with other business . |
| 11 | ‘ I meant to get some food on my way home , but I got held up at college , ’ she explained , examining various other articles in the fridge with distaste . |
| 12 | I 'm sorry I was late getting but I got held up by another lesson . |
| 13 | I blush to admit my failure but I have cut down by half and the will to stop completely is as strong as ever . |
| 14 | But I have clammed up about L. Feel superstitious . |
| 15 | ‘ The great Utopia : the Russian Avant-garde 1915–32 ’ , at the Stedelijk museum until 31 August is the exhibition previously at the Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt , which some scholars thought might be infiltrated by dubious works ( The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p.6 ) , but which has turned out to be an exceptional show . |
| 16 | I 've been meaning to talk to you , but you 've ducked out of the building so fast after finishing your show these last two days , ’ she told him when he stopped to greet her and ask if she had heard the brilliant spontaneous earthquake joke he 'd cracked on air that morning . |
| 17 | As I say , I could have destroyed you , or so I thought at the time , but you 've turned out to be a lot tougher than I had imagined … not vulnerable or confused at all . |
| 18 | I know that Jacqueline , you may well get it right , but you have come up with hard work sometime do n't you ? |
| 19 | But she had gone up before him , her narrow back and bunched skirts all that were visible of her from below . |
| 20 | He had alarmed her but she had stood up to him fearlessly and he knew it . |
| 21 | But she had got out of the dining room too fast for it to happen . |
| 22 | Somebody or something seemed to be trying to speak to her but she felt cut off like a prisoner in a sound-proof box . |
| 23 | You are like the prisoner who is honourably circumspect but who gets turned in by an accomplice . |
| 24 | ‘ But something 's come out of it ! ’ said Nooty . |
| 25 | These schemes are notorious for corruption , but something has got through to the poor . |
| 26 | But we had got on to a subject I do happen to know something about . |
| 27 | But we 've ended up with , they 've got the prize and we 're the ones who did it , who , who did it . |
| 28 | I try to write but we have run out of words . |
| 29 | But they had gone up to forty eight through acquisitions . |
| 30 | But they had fallen out over the collection of some money . |