Example sentences of "but [conj] my [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 One could use various pejorative terms to describe that which I wo n't but but my clients felt very strongly that there are not very many people living in Scotton and it was an easy option to say let's push the road further away .
2 but before my nerves record contact
3 I thought about the possibility but when my friends kept saying that I would be chosen I said that I thought the selectors would go for more experience .
4 It is difficult to identify this character in unsectioned skulls , but it is likely that some degree of airorhynchy is primitive for hominoids , greatly exaggerated in the pongine lineage and modified towards klinorhynchy in hominines , but as my observations lead me to believe that the bonobo is airorhynchous to some degree , it is difficult to be sure of the ancestral hominine character state .
5 The colours of the countryside as we pass are English colours , greens , golds , the high washed blue bag sky , but as my eyes become adjusted and my mind learns to relax I can see them change and become , in the blue grey light , more obviously French .
6 I do n't paint from dark to light or light to dark in any special sequence , but as my eyes flit over the paper I add bits of colour here and there .
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