Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I knew at the time that I felt I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again . |
| 2 | but I looked at a pineapple and it 's from the Philippines . |
| 3 | But I listened at the bedroom door when you found my terminal . |
| 4 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 5 | ‘ When Blackburn came in for me , they were well down the old Second Division , but I jumped at the chance . |
| 6 | The thing has little music & little choiceness of words , but I fancied at the time it was genuine enough . |
| 7 | ‘ I had , ’ said Rosalind , hurrying in , ‘ but I stopped at the post-office to get a stamp for my letter and it was closed and the wretched stamp-machine was empty . |
| 8 | But she relaxed at the sound of Schubert . |
| 9 | Alexandra wondered if Mrs Burrows had said anything else , but she gazed at the tapestry on her lap and said only , ‘ She — she is most kind . |
| 10 | Firemen had to lift up the bus before ambulance officers could try to rescue her , but she died at the scene . |
| 11 | But she looked at the robe again and several of the eyes opened and blinked and swivelled in their sockets , as if they had heard her thoughts and were rather amused by them . |
| 12 | ‘ All I wanted was a pain-killer but they said at the desk that there were none in the hotel . |
| 13 | But they agreed at a meeting on Saturday that they would take whatever steps were necessary to protect their colliery . |
| 14 | Sean and Michael were there too , but they stood at the back looking usher-smart in new suits , and keeping a professional eye on the collecting plate . |
| 15 | But he relented at the sight of Isabelle smiling and bearing gifts , his Continental dream . |
| 16 | But he swore at a spectator who had provoked him during a game against Essex at Ilford and again on Sunday when he was racially abused on returning to the pavilion after scoring a half century which helped Middlesex clinch the Sunday League crown . |
| 17 | But he rang at the front . |
| 18 | None of this necessarily involved fighting between French and British , but it came at a time when the British Company was revising its policy of relying on the Moghul Emperor and on the successes of Englishmen outside India to protect its position . |
| 19 | But it stopped at the sky . |
| 20 | But it stopped at the neck , and its body did not appear . |
| 21 | But it did at the time appear rather a , the last thing |
| 22 | But it emerged at the meeting , held in Yokohama , Japan , that only seven of its 47 member governments had prepared strategies for meeting this target . |