Example sentences of "but [pron] [adv] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellen was still awake , talking in the stateroom with Rickie , but everyone else seemed asleep . |
| 2 | But I slowly became aware that they were all looking at me — just the time that sergia became aware of the direction of my gaze . |
| 3 | I wanted to destroy it … but I also felt sorry for it . |
| 4 | I used to look at her and admire her but I also felt sorry for her because she was always confined to the flat . |
| 5 | I found that really awkward at first , but I just got used to it and grew to love Les Pauls and just stuck with them from then on . ’ |
| 6 | I could have kept on and on , but I just got tired of the crowds , the people getting in the way all the time . |
| 7 | In the course of a long interview in his apartment , I found myself quite charmed by his lack of pretension , inarticulate babble sprinkled with the occasionally brilliant observation and odd habit of quoting himself , but I nevertheless remained convinced that Koons ' self-effacing earnestness was a scam . |
| 8 | But I soon grew bored . |
| 9 | I was very nervous when I first went ; but I soon got used to it . |
| 10 | I absolutely hated having to wear a skirt but I soon got used to it . |
| 11 | I just did that one but I always got stuck on erm the dentist one . |
| 12 | I was glad for them , but I only felt exhausted . |
| 13 | But I now saw other opportunities . |
| 14 | I thought to myself , they would have razored that easily ; but I suddenly felt inadequate . |
| 15 | but I never felt confident enough |
| 16 | But I never got used to seeing the Queen eat . |
| 17 | It was a bit everything-but-the-kitchen-sink on sexual politics , and its switches from comedy to Myra McFadden 's chilling incest victim 's song might have been a bit startling , but I still felt pleased with it and learned ( I hope ) an awful lot from it , mainly about structure which I find hard , and how to pinch plots from people who knew how to do it . |
| 18 | This time the porridge was not burnt , but I still felt hungry , as the quantity was so small . |
| 19 | Some years earlier , I had lost almost 2st ( 12.7kg ) from my heaviest weight of 10st 3lbs ( 65 kg ) , but I still had revolting hips and thighs as you will see from my ‘ before ’ photograph . |
| 20 | But its newly minted dual-containment policy may reckon without the Middle East 's rare talent for opportunistic alliances . |
| 21 | During the seven months he spent there he wrote two songs , Non m'ama più and Lamento d'amore , which he had difficulty in publishing at the time , but which later became popular . |
| 22 | Politics came to be seen as a social and collective activity which rose above the individual but which somehow fell short of the ideal of the nation or the whole community . |
| 23 | They now reached what appeared to be open country , but which soon became large areas of garden , each surrounding a single house approached from the roadway through magnificent iron gates . |
| 24 | A few years ago they were making some of the best pop singles you could play on a jukebox : ‘ Something About You ’ , ‘ Leaving Me Now ’ , ‘ Lessons In Love ’ , all the kind of thing that you felt you were going to be sick of hearing before long but which still sounded good after the thousandth time . |
| 25 | I kept taking quick glances but you always looked inscrutable . |
| 26 | Because her talents lay in organization , personal inspiration , and a somewhat Wagnerian style of oratory , rather than in writing and analytical thought , it is difficult to pinpoint precisely the nature of her impact upon contemporaries , but she clearly inspired great personal devotion in both women and men . |
| 27 | Mrs Atkinson , who lived in Liverpool all her life , was a well-known pianist and singer , but she also did marquetery painting as a hobby prior to her marriage . |
| 28 | She spoke firmly but she still seemed pale . |
| 29 | He should have been less intimidating now he was seated , but she still felt uneasy , and she was annoyed with herself for showing any weakness , but she could n't help the quiver in her voice , the tears that pricked behind her eyes . |
| 30 | Her head was clearing now but she still felt strange , drowsy . |