Example sentences of "[pron] but [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could lend it to you but got it at the moment you know . |
| 2 | We saw you but did you have to come running over |
| 3 | No , it 's it 's erm it 's somebody who , all they do is write your answers for you but dictated I m if you 've ever been an em especially I mean I used to be I usually end up doing the amanuensing for courses that I 've taught on students on my paper . |
| 4 | It was never going to be a career for me but kept me in beer money and taught me about how to deal with the public . ’ |
| 5 | it was someone else that told me but told me not to tell anyone and I had to beg it out of him cos I just wanted to know . |
| 6 | ‘ Will your family still be here ? ’ asked Nina , glancing from Rachel to David and back to Rachel again , a slightly bemused look on her face as if she did n't really understand what was happening between them but wished she did . |
| 7 | They grabbed the garments and escaped but were spotted by police in a patrol car who followed them but lost them in Litherland several miles away . |
| 8 | She had originally intended to resell them but found she had grown attached to them and had built shelves in her sitting-room . |
| 9 | It was , had we but realized it , an omen of things to come . |
| 10 | Michelle does put her hair up herself but said it usually slips out because ‘ there 's just too much of it , besides , it 's just so well-conditioned ! ’ |
| 11 | Overbalancing , she clutched at Finn to save herself but pulled him over with her . |
| 12 | He was still uncertain how much his mother had left him but thought it was probably between £40,000 and £50,000 . |
| 13 | Now this short note cruelly dashed his hopes : the mysterious writer apologised for not meeting him but asked him to wait amongst the ancient ruins to the north-west of the Tower . |
| 14 | I felt like punching him but knew it was stupid to start a fight . |
| 15 | He said Mr Morgan , contacted by radio , acknowledged the fighters belonged to him but said they acted without his orders or consent . |
| 16 | His wife Maggie kept on eye on him but said it was all right for a special occasion and that he could rejoin the pledge tomorrow . |
| 17 | They hated him but loved him . |
| 18 | I vowed to have no more to do with her but thought I ought to return her shoes and her key , so I snatched Frankie 's comic and tried to persuade him to come with me . |
| 19 | He did n't like lying to her but thought it inadvisable to tell her that there was no rescue ship hurrying to the scene and that , as far as he knew , the only other people who knew of the disaster were the NATO HQ in Italy . |
| 20 | One evening I visited her but found she was out , so I waited on her balcony , smoking a cigar . |
| 21 | As she groped towards a chair he made no move towards her but watched her sit down , then bow her head for a moment before slowly raising her eyes to his again when , in a voice that had lost none of its bitterness , she said ‘ Leave me ; but I 'm warning you , I 'll see you dead first , before you take that girl . ’ |
| 22 | The daughter of that cruel Damophilus " had done all she could to comfort the slaves who were beaten by her parents " : so the slaves not only did not touch her but escorted her " to the home of certain kinsmen in Catana " ( 34.39 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied , but she was grateful to him that he did not hurry her but allowed her to look her fill before they set off through a pathway of more trees and green parkland . |
| 24 | Santerre hastened to open it but told us not to bring any torches in . |
| 25 | Then I did not understand it but wished I did . |
| 26 | The world was a less " moral " place than it had been before the war : Germany and Japan had brought to a crisis the sickness which infected civilization , but their collapse had not cured it but left it raging everywhere . " |
| 27 | We not merely retained it but expanded it , and it has fully justified our confidence . |
| 28 | I glanced quickly at it but found it too difficult to understand , so I gave it back . |
| 29 | Ruth knew it but found it hard to face at times . |
| 30 | Maidstone had not parted with it but held it firmly in his left fist . |