Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said . |
| 32 | look I said I do n't mind vinyl , I do n't mind good vinyl the only good , the only one that , it was good for the toilet , but I got it in a pack cos we 've got such a small single toilet |
| 33 | ‘ But I regard it as a penance . |
| 34 | ‘ It 's a great personal honour but I regard it as an honour for the club and the city of Leeds as well . ’ |
| 35 | I am still very critical of my own shape but I console myself with the fact that while it is far from perfect , it is better than it used to be . |
| 36 | My superior self had taken over-call it the result of time-shock , if you will , but I felt myself in the presence of myth and , by association , accepted myself as mythical ! |
| 37 | But I told him about the telly that it 's a bit beyond redemption . |
| 38 | But I told you on the phone did n't I , it rained and |
| 39 | Welford said : ‘ He grabbed me by the lapels and cuffed me across the face , but I shielded myself from the rest of his blows . ’ |
| 40 | Erm and one of the things I could 've done was to em er become a salaried employee of my own company which was a limited company but I paid myself as a consultant . |
| 41 | I went to punch him but I caught him with the crowbar instead . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ New-fangled ’ ideas , the farmer said , but I convinced him in the end . |
| 43 | This repeated general principles well known to a ( l good teachers , but I wanted them in the Report so there could be no doubt about the kind of teaching we admired . |
| 44 | She struggles , eyes widening further , but I pin her to the sheets with my weight and keep the glove firmly over her mouth even though she is n't making any noise . |
| 45 | " I know you come over a little shy when I talk about you this way , Chuck , but I do it for a good reason , " continued the senator , lighting a Havana cigar with elaborate care . |
| 46 | But I did it with a heavy heart , I can tell you . |
| 47 | But I did it through the love , fo , that I had for the couple , and that because they had waited sixteen year before they eventually found out they could n't have children ! |
| 48 | I know I should n't have gone near the sea , but I did it as a protest . |
| 49 | Er but I did it at a scale like erm one centimetre for o for every hour it 's blowing in that direction . |
| 50 | He said it 's my fault ; but I did it for the best . ’ |
| 51 | ‘ It would have taken forty-five minutes by bus , but I did it in a quarter of an hour by bike , ’ he said . |
| 52 | But I want somebody in every one of those companies . |
| 53 | Yeah but I want it for the men that 's going to alter the gas . |
| 54 | My final choice will doubtless find few supporters elsewhere , but I want someone with the dynamism to ensure that no winning opportunity is missed . |
| 55 | ‘ I 'm extremely sorry , Monsieur de Chavigny , but I have someone on the line who wants to speak to you personally . |
| 56 | No , but I hang it in the garage which is |
| 57 | But I think I 'll stay here but I see myself as a internationalist as well . |
| 58 | But I see myself in a different life |
| 59 | He is certainly all that , but I see him as the new Jasper Johns — that great transformer of icons — with sex , shopping and the detritus of the suburbs in place of Johns 's targets , beer cans and flags . |
| 60 | But I think we with the wet stuff we 've had going through , the chute is blocking up . |