Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were busy overcoming problems inherent in the system so as to service customers — but no-one knew at what expense . |
| 2 | ‘ But I knew at the time that I felt I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again . |
| 3 | But I saw at once that this was not what Mrs Girdlestone wanted to hear . |
| 4 | But I lived at home . ’ |
| 5 | But I looked at Mother as they were kissing and she had seen all right . |
| 6 | The atmosphere was thick with tension but I looked at Mick and he glared back ; here was a guy ready to go for it and nobody was going to stop him . |
| 7 | Er he attended to me and I should n't have done but I looked at my notes at th bottom of the bed one day and it said , Interference denied . |
| 8 | How the but I looked at the . |
| 9 | but I looked at a pineapple and it 's from the Philippines . |
| 10 | But I looked at it and I thought well I 'm being silly here because , it 's not keeping that for me , , you see he 's given me a bit of and |
| 11 | No , erm , well it 's , it 's not just , they did n't have , it was n't too much , there 's one ear piece which has come off , but I discovered at , my last , I sent myself last week at the assembly hall to how that could happen |
| 12 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 13 | I saw my marriage as a kind of pointless secular martyrdom , but I baulked at putting brushwood around my own pyre . |
| 14 | But I listened at the bedroom door when you found my terminal . |
| 15 | I hated the cold nights , hated Ron at times , but I kept at it . |
| 16 | But I kept at him . |
| 17 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 18 | She turned as if to call but I growled at her again , ‘ Do n't call , ’ in so urgent a voice that she desisted . |
| 19 | But I felt at home ; and I made a splendid collection of Italian cafe napkins , their corners printed with emblems of the past glory of Ninfania : the Cupid stringing his bow to let fly his darts from the prow in the cafe of the old harbour , and a selection — even I was defeated by the variety — of ice cream wrappers : ‘ Cooky Delight ’ and ‘ Bikini Manhattan ’ and ‘ Magnum Astoria ’ and ‘ Desiree ’ , ‘ Party Craze ’ and ‘ Magic Cola ’ , ‘ Oasis ’ and ‘ Grand Carre ’ , ‘ Card Game ’ and ‘ Tiffany ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ When Blackburn came in for me , they were well down the old Second Division , but I jumped at the chance . |
| 21 | It had been aimed at my head , but I moved at the last second , prompted by some unclassified intuition of survival . |
| 22 | ‘ It may be more of an intuitive thing , but I considered at that time that there were shades of Edward VIII about him . |
| 23 | The thing has little music & little choiceness of words , but I fancied at the time it was genuine enough . |
| 24 | ‘ I had , ’ said Rosalind , hurrying in , ‘ but I stopped at the post-office to get a stamp for my letter and it was closed and the wretched stamp-machine was empty . |
| 25 | I did not know the name , but I guessed at once who she was . |
| 26 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |
| 27 | But she relaxed at the sound of Schubert . |
| 28 | Alexandra wondered if Mrs Burrows had said anything else , but she gazed at the tapestry on her lap and said only , ‘ She — she is most kind . |
| 29 | Firemen had to lift up the bus before ambulance officers could try to rescue her , but she died at the scene . |
| 30 | Tilda did not understand what he was doing , but she stared at him from the height of the mast until he became conscious of her , and turned round . |