Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When told how Evans had been rumbled , St Helens chairman Eric Latham said : ‘ It 's news to me — but nothing surprises me anymore . |
| 2 | But nobody took me seriously . ’ |
| 3 | But you tell me how just how is he going to do it ? |
| 4 | You say I shut you out of my work , but you shut me out … |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , Shelley , Shelley , you 're a beautiful woman , but you tease me too much . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But you make me so angry , ’ she said on a short laugh , ‘ when anyone with half a brain can see what is going on ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But you needed me more , Ruth . |
| 8 | But you pay me now . |
| 9 | But you want me too , do n't you ? ’ |
| 10 | But you helped me out with my grades so I 'll overlook that . ’ |
| 11 | I went over to comfort her but she shooed me away . |
| 12 | There 's a girl my elder brother wants to marry , and my family want it , too , but she likes me better , and I like her , and her parents wo n't force her . |
| 13 | Everything went wrong , but she got me out of trouble . |
| 14 | I began , but she cut me short . |
| 15 | I 'd tried to keep my voice light , coaxing , but she studied me coolly as though she 'd picked up my unspoken reservations and would not forget them . |
| 16 | But she married me out of simple respect . |
| 17 | I thought — ; I mean , I supposed it was you Aunt Emily was waiting for , but she sent me out , she thinks I have been very silly over the whole affair — ’ |
| 18 | ‘ She agreed to marry me , but she told me straight away that she would n't be able to live in England all the time , and I told her I could n't live in L.A. |
| 19 | I saw that she still wore an engagement ring , but she told me very quickly that her fiancé had been a bomber pilot and he was dead , and it was not the same man she had been engaged to when she joined up . |
| 20 | ‘ I know , but she told me once that that was enough for her . |
| 21 | ‘ But she put me off ! |
| 22 | I tried to sneak out with an open-necked shirt , but she called me back . |
| 23 | I do n't like to answer a question with a question , but she caught me unawares . |
| 24 | She gives me flowers , but she loves me not . |
| 25 | There was every possible opportunity and we discussed it ; he was keen but not importunate , which naturally made me love him more and be more inclined to give him what he was so sweetly not insisting on , but something held me back . |
| 26 | I 'd love to go in again , but they tell me not to go , but to remember how it was . |
| 27 | But they tell me now that it 's been increased immensely now what they get for being an oven man . |
| 28 | I wish I could see Annie again , but they took me away , and they would n't let me see her again . |
| 29 | But they took me away after that awful morning and did n't send me back to Byron House for another year and a half . |
| 30 | But they took me in then because one of my mates in the London Scottish was in the Squad . |