Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But instinctively she knew she had what she wanted — the frames that would lend just the breadth and depth she needed to complete her picture story of the couture shows , and she let her camera fall back on its strap around her neck , rubbing her aching eyes and running her fingers up under the thick fringe of dark blonde hair that barely skimmed them . |
| 2 | But mostly I imagined you asleep , left utterly to yourself in a situation where my own absence from your life did not matter : |
| 3 | Actually , with a match rod and light line you do not really play a fish in the normal way , but rather you guide them , manipulate them , into the landing net . |
| 4 | It was fear that locked his tongue , but mercifully he mistook it for pride , so its bitterness did not poison him . |
| 5 | She says other prisoners used to chant ’ Baroness , ’ but eventually they accepted her and she was know as the Duchess . |
| 6 | But eventually they had them done . |
| 7 | And when you think of a man earning about at the most two pounds ten shillings a week , one and sixpence was quite a sizable amount out of it , but eventually he paid it all off . |
| 8 | But eventually she persuaded us she meant it and we went and it was an invaluable experience meeting not only our missionary partner but the people among whom she lives and and works and has done for many years . |
| 9 | My three-piece was wringing wet , but eventually I dried it out , and the rest I just bagged together . |
| 10 | It took me time to find out what was wrong but eventually I sorted it out . |
| 11 | But eventually I got it right , I had to — I could n't do the advanced course without the basic one under my belt . |
| 12 | But eventually it cost him a term at Her Majesty 's pleasure . |
| 13 | The most moving thing that ever happened to them , they say — but secretly I think it is all to do with stealing thunder from the women . |
| 14 | remains something of a mystery , but perhaps they took it as a reference to our well-known problems with fractured sewer pipes and the directive from Europe . |
| 15 | But perhaps it classified him as out of action , impotent despite his puissant armour . |
| 16 | But perhaps you think I had no right to be . ’ |
| 17 | But perhaps you think he would have changed something if he could ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , but perhaps he thought I might meet some wealthy man who would instantly fall in love with me and so relieve him of some of the responsibility , ’ she retorted , too angry to even think what she was saying , and then gave a derisive smile when she saw that he was half tempted to believe it . |
| 19 | For Adrian Hop there 's nothing that can ease the pain of the loss of his daughter but perhaps he says she wo n't have died in vain . |
| 20 | But perhaps he preferred it to a haunted house , because , as he saw it , that would require metaphysics as well . |
| 21 | ‘ But perhaps she needs us , ’ Matthew replied , surprisingly quickly for him . |
| 22 | Oh yes , yes , no , I think I think that er and I think that you know that particularly the the Mirror Group Newspapers Trustees doing a doing an excellent job you know , but we have n't really got into the into the stock lending er arrangements , but the , the cases those I think are particularly you know important to us you see , because there is a there 's another hundred and fifty nine or a hundred and fifty three million I think of , of writs out at the moment and those I think are the ones where we 're going to really see whether the , the banks dig their heels in or not , you know , I think we 've , we 're rea very early stage , but basically I mean we 've still got eighty , getting on for eighty per cent of the missing monies still missing and we 're into our third , third year . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's a long story , but basically I thought they 'd get on together . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm told they might need me for a bit of PR work , but basically I gather I 'm going to be the technician permanently with the team . ’ |
| 25 | At first she sympathised a bit , but basically she thinks it 's because I dare to walk around and look people in the eye — I 'm too challenging or flirty or something . |
| 26 | But so I mean I think the case for Regional Government is definitely there and I 'm surprised by Councillor , I 'm surprised that you said your group is n't seeing it . |
| 27 | Most of Lot of us have lost a lot of times , but So I thank you again . |
| 28 | I did n't have much faith in him when I first spoke to him , but apparently he told her to stand on her own two feet . |
| 29 | The American lad , Lee Horan , was under the impression that she was Dominic 's girlfriend , but apparently she denied it to him , as she did to me . |
| 30 | You do n't have to make a firm commitment but obviously we like you to give us some idea of your availability . |