Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started sending out a ‘ ten , thirty — three ’ , the Citizen Band S.O.S. , on channel 1 but I knew that by the time I got through all 40 channels , Danny 's truck would be on the Motorway and we would lose it . |
| 2 | But I saw that in the glazier and when I worked in there , they would bring people in . |
| 3 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Of course I would have liked to have taken 50 or 60 wickets , but I felt that in the latter part of the season , I proved my fitness once and for all . |
| 5 | But she admitted that in the aftermath of the collision on Borough Road , Birkenhead she had feared the worst . |
| 6 | But she knew that in the last resort that if he did win that I would do it but he 's he 's paid off now . |
| 7 | But she knew that in the last resort if he did I would do it , but he 's , he 's paid off now as soon as he 'd paid off he went on the dole again |
| 8 | I have a slow heartbeat , about 67 or 68 , but we found that in a quiet passage of music before a climax the heartbeat could rise to 170 . |
| 9 | But they knew that on the left lay the Waste ; and that somewhere west of the Waste , no one knew precisely where , was the Great Camp of the outlaws . |
| 10 | They had tried to head these off , but because they could slip into the lanes and wynds of the town , this had proved difficult , Ramsay interrupted to demand whether one of these fugitives had been a tall man in shirt and breeches ; but they said that in the darkness they could not tell . |
| 11 | I asked him for more but he said that with the family allowance we had the same . |
| 12 | After Caldwell Lord Roskill in Seymour spoke of a very high risk of death , but he said that in the context of manslaughter caused by a car ( " motor manslaughter " ) in order to distinguish that offence from causing death by reckless driving , or at least such is the construction put on his words in Kong Cheuk Kwan v R , and Lord Roskill did uphold the trial judge 's direction which included a reference to an obvious and serious risk of physical injury . |
| 13 | But he realised that for a man like Lancaster — trusting and timid — the betrayal would have been much , much worse . |
| 14 | But he added that in the case of the Korean War the Allies were justified in fighting against the communists . |
| 15 | No-one knows exactly what Daniel Dubroca and Jean Trillo told the Bègles trio , but it appeared that in the aftermath of the American tour Simon and his pals lost their ‘ flavour of the month ’ tag . |