Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once or twice she said , ‘ It 's not right for you to have so much to do , Em , ’ but mostly she just took the tea and sipped it and looked at Emmie as if she was n't anyone she knew very well , any more . |
| 2 | But perhaps they still had a future life together . |
| 3 | But it was pleasant to feel safe and looked-after , and another nice thing was that nobody remarked on , or even appeared to notice my absence of rings — except the Matron , who was inclined to toss her head a bit as she passed me , but perhaps she just had a tic . |
| 4 | Frustrating it was , but somehow I still had a good night out . |
| 5 | But yesterday he happily grasped the handles of her frilly carrycot as the Stewarts set off for Los Angeles . |
| 6 | Here again , in 1857 , statute took away the whole of the matrimonial jurisdiction from the Ecclesiastical Courts and vested it in a new court , the Divorce Court , which was enabled to do not only everything that the Ecclesiastical Court could have done , but also what previously needed the combined efforts of the Ecclesiastical Courts , the Common Law Courts , and an Act of Parliament . |
| 7 | Well , this was hardly the scene she 'd have imagined as the perfect time to wear the dress , but now she silently blessed the premonition which had made her pack it along with the predominantly casual clothes she 'd chosen to take to Sheffield . |
| 8 | Bartocci might previously have had some difficulty in making himself heard , but now he instantly had the total attention of both men . |
| 9 | He had wept too but now he calmly awaited a new pleasure . |
| 10 | But even she only reached the 2nd round , before losing to Larisa Savchenko . |
| 11 | ‘ They thought they were doing well with just the anecdotes to bring home to their wives because they were going to see the Princess Royal on the eve of her wedding , but then they really hit the jackpot with Diana and Charles . |
| 12 | Nobody knew there were any in the loch but then we only got the one and it would not surprise me if he had not eaten all the others if there had been any others that is . |
| 13 | But then he never missed a trick . |
| 14 | They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward . |
| 15 | Again she remembered how Naylor Massingham had once held her ‘ figure of delightful shape and proportions ’ close up against his body , but again she quickly banished the memory , and decided that that area was far too personal anyhow . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought I might get just to chat to one of them , but instead I suddenly found a whole bleeding pack of them behind me . |
| 17 | This was charity on a princely scale , but politically it further exasperated the king , who would rather have taken £500 with ill-will than nothing at all . |