Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was quite aware of my childish misdemeanours , but I had n't been to confession since I returned from Egypt , and I thought he would be profoundly shocked by what I should have to tell him . |
| 2 | But I had not been raised to be merely decorative . |
| 3 | Felipe had let me drive around the hacienda but I had never been on a road . ’ |
| 4 | Her insistence seemed absurd in view of her own failed marriage , but I had always been too nervous to point this out , to ask what she made of the break in connection between the symbolism of the dress and the unassailability of the marriage vow . |
| 5 | Maybe I delivered my opinion more bluntly than I should have , but I had always been candid with Ted . |
| 6 | After I 'd kissed her goodbye I felt pretty happy because not only had I at last had an extremely enjoyable sexual experience , but I 'd also been able to give enjoyment . |
| 7 | ‘ On its own , perhaps not , but I 'd also been told that day that people believed you and an English journalist who lives here , James Cobalt , were making enquiries about drug trafficking . |
| 8 | Not only had I proved myself a liar but I 'd not been much good at school and did n't even get my leaving certificate . |
| 9 | I was skinny but I 'd never been so healthy in my life . |
| 10 | The , they really convert bibles for doing that is because I 've always done that of er right that 's , that 's out of the way , jump the paperwork , now what about talking about your clubs and that t to sort of close down the call and relax the client for getting into referral mode and I 've always done it tail end on so the introduction to the referral is at the beginning and perhaps looking for them during i is totally unfamiliar , I mean I do note the odd thing as I go through and note them down on the , the but I 'd never been used to actually although we were told referrals how and why that went with it . |
| 11 | But I ended up being sent to the juvenile court where I received a conditional discharge . ’ |
| 12 | Players can forget , but you 'd better be 100 percent right . |
| 13 | But you 'd better be quick about it ’ , and open . |
| 14 | ‘ She said your name was Juliet , but you had n't been registered yet . |
| 15 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
| 16 | But she had n't been a hardnosed grubber after facts ( or compiler of falsehoods , for that matter ) . |
| 17 | Mrs had got home in her jeep with just chauffeur and one extra bodyguard , defying the pleas of the other wives , some half an hour after Kaptan and I had left with the Corporal , but she had n't been able to get the Colonel on the military net for nearly two hours after that . |
| 18 | She 'd known that it was childish behaviour on her part , but she had n't been able to help herself . |
| 19 | Russia had been mauled in 1915 and forced into general retreat , but she had not been destroyed . |
| 20 | But she had not been listening . |
| 21 | But she had not been prepared for the intensity of her response . |
| 22 | She had lost her fear long ago but she had not been close to a man like this for over two years . |
| 23 | Eugénie had not long been an Empress , but she had always been a grandee of Spain , with all that implied in pride and good breeding . |
| 24 | But she had always been , it seemed , too busy to stop and take stock , too busy to plan , too busy to rationalize . |
| 25 | She was a nice old soul , but she had once been Sister Hope for twenty years , as she never ceased to inform us . |
| 26 | But she had only been one of two . |
| 27 | But she had only been on the mountain for two hours , three at the most . |
| 28 | But she had only been there four months when she fell prey to supervisor Brian McConville who subjected her to a harrowing sexual harassment ordeal . |
| 29 | As a subscriber to Marxism Today , Robyn had suffered occasional qualms of guilt because she did n't cycle to work instead of driving , but she had never been attacked for owning a foreign car before . |
| 30 | She meant his earnings , not the yield of the toy-shop business , but she had never been in the habit of referring to them so distinctly , let alone to the fact that they were thin on the ground at the moment . |