Example sentences of "but [pron] gave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing gave me the right to say it now . |
| 2 | I was once or twice approached by stony-faced nuns begging for charities , but I gave nothing because I felt sure that some of those nuns were fakes , possibly men in drag , for their big , dark , hollow eyes , dyspeptic noses bright red in chalk-white faces , compressed , colourless lips and faint moustaches were hardly the signs of religious penance , and they were all wearing rather large boots . |
| 3 | I said I was n't sure , but I gave them a phone number which I knew to be Nassim 's office above a leather warehouse in Brick Lane . |
| 4 | A tinker accosted me in the bar , asking for a glass of brandy , but I gave him short shrift . |
| 5 | I think I said it was a 6-iron or maybe a 7 , but I gave him the yardage and he hit his shot right at the hole . |
| 6 | I apoligise for putting a long list of questions to the Minister , but I gave him advance notice and I hope that he will answer most of them . |
| 7 | He made a half-hearted move towards me , but I gave him no encouragement . |
| 8 | I got out of the car and ran to my front door , my mum answered the door , she looked quite different but I gave her a massive cuddle and went indoors . |
| 9 | But I gave her a cold stare and fluffed my fur out ; I could n't have her thinking I was a pushover . |
| 10 | But I gave it to him you know . |
| 11 | I would have had another one on the third day as well , but I gave it up for the opportunity to go rabbiting with the lad who worked for Brian . |
| 12 | It looks like smoked salmon and tastes like nothing on earth , but I gave it her the day before his next ward round . |
| 13 | But I gave it just the same . |
| 14 | I was utterly baffled , but I gave you the benefit of every doubt , which by this time added up to a couple of thousand . |
| 15 | was going to say check it in the book but I gave you wrong one . |
| 16 | But I gave you my word — nothing against your will . ’ |
| 17 | Dear God , but I gave you my heart and my very soul — ’ |
| 18 | No , I , I was gon na do it but I gave you that other half for Marie |
| 19 | But I gave my genuine reason for returning earlier , which was the Arts Council 's monthly meeting , in which I was deeply interested and whose chairman I was at the time . |
| 20 | What he relied on , I think , and what he always came back to was that ‘ natural ’ self which he did not understand nor at this stage want to understand , but which gave him his power . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm sorry , love , but you gave me such a fright . |
| 22 | ‘ But you gave her an ‘ A ’ , Luke , ’ she whispered . |
| 23 | She passed several men , but none gave her a second glance . |
| 24 | Gwynn Jones received many other honours but none gave him greater pleasure than the publication of a selection of his poems , Detholiad o Ganiadau , by the Gregynog Press in 1926 , and the de luxe edition , issued in 1932–7 by Hughes & Son , Wrexham , of six volumes of selected poems and essays . |
| 25 | I intended to ask the Baronessa Dulcibene why she had come to pay her last respects to this mysterious Englishman but she gave me a glassy look of non-recognition and moved rapidly away with her companion . |
| 26 | He waved to me , but she gave me a menacing glare . |
| 27 | Folly doubted if she would care what Luke got up to , but she gave her the flowers none the less . |
| 28 | He tried to start things up in a halfhearted sort of way , but she gave him an ultimatum . |
| 29 | Flaubert was distressed and begged for mercy , but she gave him no quarter . ’ |
| 30 | She had been disappointed in her first sight of him , but she gave him an amused little smile , hoping that he was not one who doted on cats . |