Example sentences of "[prep] but i [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 I did n't know what he was talking about but I dutifully obeyed and we trailed the shambling figure as he made his way drunkenly out through a postern gate and down the steep , narrow alleyways of Nottingham .
2 She was a bit troublesome to me to begin with but I soon cottoned on to the fact that it was n't her but the girl she was sitting next to within the class .
3 No I was just worrying that I always thought that I would never ever like come across anyone who I thought that I can even vaguely click with but I just realized that I can and it 's just quite a nice feeling .
4 I 've been stung before but I never reacted like this . ’
5 Publication tended to be erratic and material often hard to come by but I usually managed to get three or four copies to press every year .
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