Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [adv] [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I hardly even spoke to her ! |
| 2 | No doubt your gran often gave your mum the benefit of her advice but it probably never occurred to her , as it has n't occurred to you , that your mother longs for love , company and sex . |
| 3 | But it very nearly had to be postponed . |
| 4 | ‘ At first we tried breeze blocks , ’ Sally explains , ‘ but it very quickly occurred to us that the only way was to do it properly , using original bricks . ’ |
| 5 | But it never quite happened to Blythe , or to any other free-jazzer — indeed , with the exception of some of the hippier bits of northern Europe , out-and-out freedom never found much of an audience . |