Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | I waited again for them to come out but nothing stirred . |
| 2 | I smiled as I passed by but he did n't see me . |
| 3 | ‘ Look , I may have been angry when I found out but … ’ |
| 4 | I wandered around but was unable to speak to the owner because , according to a girl who was serving customers , he would n't be in till tomorrow . |
| 5 | It tapped its tail on the floor when I came in but did not get up . |
| 6 | I climbed up but his seat collapsed and , as he fell , he knocked his table over . |
| 7 | When I went to the bus I realised I only had one bag instead of two so I rushed back but no-one had seen the bag in the pub or the shops . |
| 8 | I shout , and I punch out but miss . |
| 9 | But maybe you think of course I started rambling when I started off but er |
| 10 | I slowed down but even then I locked up the front wheel in one of the fast corners and I fell again . |
| 11 | I looked up but his terrible face was hidden in the shadow of a helmet . |
| 12 | I reported them when I went up but whether there was any success in the things I just do n't know . |
| 13 | I went down but , but they have n't put it back in the |
| 14 | it was the secretary on There was only the one secretary in the office when I went in but there are two desks , one on the left and one on the right , and it 's the one at the one on the right . |
| 15 | And erm I went back but er I we I we I went back er daitling and er I got er a daitle contract . |
| 16 | I now live in a small Perthshire village , substantially less homogeneous than the one in which I grew up but in which there are also a few catholic families and where the majority are of presbyterian Scottish/Ulster stock . |
| 17 | I fell over but carried on waving from on hands and knees and saw the car stop two hundred yards away . |
| 18 | One particularly cold winter I gave in but stipulated that I must n't be around when it happened . |
| 19 | They was all in bed it was only Joseph who was up when I come out but he was nearly gone up . |
| 20 | and lovely , I just woke up , er a couple of minutes before then the insurance lad come cos when I only , he should of come yesterday and I waited in but I could n't , you know when I opened the door I says I , I he says , you know |
| 21 | ‘ We 've heard them rustling about but they 're staying out of our way . |
| 22 | Theirs went down but mine went up . |
| 23 | you absolutely get them going off but sometimes you actually want to use all 's fair in love and war also actually use those sort of tactics . |
| 24 | Let them know that you are always delighted to have them drop in but that it is the responsibility for having children on their own you find too much . |
| 25 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 26 | She sits down but does n't join in the conversations , her face is distracted and her hands move constantly as though she 's talking to herself . |
| 27 | She hated having to scan it in reverse rather than just rewind to go back to the same sequence the girl had been watching when she came in but Jezrael had n't thought to check the counter . |
| 28 | Desperately she pressed on but she knew with an awful certainty that he would vanish before she got there . |
| 29 | Of course you can well I knew of a girl who married I would n't say she 'd married well when she started out but her husband was enterprising e eventually got himself quite a good job at the at people who print the bank notes so so that they they started off in a prefab and they ended up with a new four bedroom bungalow with central heating at Athorpe Roding . |
| 30 | But I mean yes certainly if it was y if it was you coming down but I do n't want |