Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But she had for several years been living a life which the word frugal does not even begin to describe accurately . |
| 32 | Every word he spoke was true ; but she fought with all her will against the impulse to agree to his face . |
| 33 | Sara did not care to be beholden to Matthew Preston for even one pupil , but she knew at this moment she could not afford to be choosey . |
| 34 | Jo loathed her blobby nose , her receding chin , her long body , her short legs , her droopy ass , her fat thighs , her white skin that absolutely refused to tan and her brown hair which frizzed and which her mother would n't even let her frost ; she accepted that she would never look like Faye Dunaway , never be a Prom Queen and that most of her body was a total disaster area , but she knew with absolute certainty that she had great tits . |
| 35 | But she knew with bleak certainty that , once she 'd left it , she would never , ever come back . |
| 36 | Enya claims to be stubborn , sulky and contrary where her composition is concerned , but she knew from unfortunate personal experience the natural anarchy and entropy of bands and very rationally allowed Nicky and Roma 's professional advice to guide her in the right direction . |
| 37 | But she probed on undeterred . |
| 38 | The crowd at the Cleveland County Stadium rose to salute Matthew 's efforts but she finished in 10 mins 20.4 secs , four hundredths of a second outside the qualifying time . |
| 39 | She has been coughing but she worked with sufficient sparkle at Lambourn on Saturday to persuade trainer Barry Hills that she is ready to put her reputation on the line . |
| 40 | Her faith in him was severely tested later , especially in 1908 and again in 1913 ; but she drew on deep reservoirs of resilience until the anxieties of his last year as a soldier began to sap her energies as housekeeper , mother , and gardener . |
| 41 | But she stayed on this balcony , her eyes on him , on this shape which fear had reduced to animal idiocy . |
| 42 | In fact it did — five months ago Wendy conceived , but she miscarried after five weeks . |
| 43 | One day she fell and broke her hip : it was repaired in hospital but she remained in some pain and was even more precarious on her feet . |
| 44 | So he said , But any road , before I go , he said er and my first nineteen twenty nine this was , and we went together on holiday , on the Continent which was unheard of , you know for working class people , but we went in nineteen twenty nine . |
| 45 | We 've never had a big dog before , but we thought in these violent days it might protect us . ’ |
| 46 | Steve Brown 's name came up , and we thought we 'd do one track with him , but we got on great , which solved that problem . |
| 47 | Cos the same thing still apply because most of the stuff was new but we had of hot stuff over the years like . |
| 48 | Did I , but you you you brought it up last meeting , that that that erm people were going as supposed to be coming back with good ideas as to how to cope with interviews in other rooms , but we said in last time that we were going to have a personal round bill . |
| 49 | They had the edge territorially , but we allowed for that in our gameplan and I think the moral victory was ours . ’ |
| 50 | I know that you people are just over a bank holiday weekend and so will be slower than usual voicing your comments to the net but WE WON after all . |
| 51 | Just to show you how this has developed , you do n't need to copy this down , it 's something that you 'll do in the second year of your course , but we mentioned in particular here how you interact with people and what goes through your head . |
| 52 | But they indulged in some dubious business ethics to obtain it ( see page 33 ) , and inspectors appointed by the Department of Trade and Industry have apparently said as much . |
| 53 | Lyn was up 7–1 ( ! ) to Brann away and looked to have saved themselves with three minutes to go — but they relaxed to early and got two late , late goals against them and thus won 7–3 , a goal to little and was relegated . |
| 54 | Holtby — tall , fair , confident , gregarious — was Brittain 's ‘ opposite ’ ; but they discovered in each other complementary experience , literary ambitions , and social ideals . |
| 55 | There were different kinds of customary tenure , but they had in common the fact that they gave some protection to the unfree man against arbitrary expropriation . |
| 56 | ‘ V2s ’ continued to arrive , however , until all the launching sites were overrun by the advancing Allied troops , but they ceased on 28th . |
| 57 | The crows avoided the central green eggs , but they shifted to nearby wheatfields rather than travelling to the white eggs . |
| 58 | But they seemed on good terms , always fraternizing and joking together : a team of workmates on the assembly line . |
| 59 | The Americans wanted the greatest possible acceleration of weapon production on behalf of the Atlantic Alliance in order to keep ahead of the Russians , but they insisted on two principles : first , that production and storage facilities should be located with due regard to strategic considerations , and that meant location in North America with minimum holdings in Europe ; and second , that there should be co-ordination of the American and British programmes to make best use of available expertise and resources , including exchange of scientists . |
| 60 | The other is that they were Christians but they received at this point more of the Holy Spirit , they were filled with the Spirit ‘ as at the beginning . ’ |