Example sentences of "but [pron] [adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did , but I slowly shook my head . |
| 2 | I realise this is higher than originally envisaged but I firmly believe our approach will lead to the best result . |
| 3 | Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I 'm the same player I was before my injury in the FA Cup final , but I just use my head a little bit more and try to get more people involved in the game . |
| 5 | But I just thought my mother wanted to be specially nice to me . |
| 6 | I 've tried most of the guitar synths and stuff , but I just prefer my instrument : it 's very human and it makes the right noise . |
| 7 | I 'd give it a pat if I had the strength , cos I really like dogs , but I just turn my head and look at it instead . |
| 8 | I do n't know about the Stanley No. 45 , but I just put my Record Multi-plane upside down in the vice and pass the wood over the ‘ sharp end ’ . |
| 9 | A television play or four weeks away in repertory was OK , but I finally lost my agent when I turned down an interview for a job in June , ‘ because I 'll be picking the gooseberries ’ . |
| 10 | If I 'd paused for more thought I perhaps would n't have had the nerve , but I simply opened his door , checked up and down the corridor for observers ( none ) and went inside , shutting myself in . |
| 11 | I was aware that austerity had taken over in England and that a lot of things were shoddy , but I desperately wished my wife had something better to wear . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm sorry to trouble you on your half-day Maggie , but I sorely need your help , ’ Lawler explained . |
| 13 | The piano is now moveable and appears to have seven keys that strike a note , but I always take my tambour , and am eternally grateful to Francis and Rita for including in our training , advice on ways of accompanying movement without a piano . |
| 14 | They did not seem pleased to see me , in fact they more or less ignored me , but I hardly noticed their rudeness . |
| 15 | I said , apologetically , ‘ It 's ridiculous , but I only remember our meeting once , after Oxford . |
| 16 | I am sorry I have been so long in replying but I only got your letter two days ago . |
| 17 | I was flying economy , but I too needed my fuel . |
| 18 | But I really wanted my pennyworth . |
| 19 | I , I am a single parent and I was over forty when I had my one and only son now the father walked out but I never deprived my son of knowing who is father was or what he was . |
| 20 | I screamed murder at him but I never questioned his right , though I had the rent in my hand . ’ |
| 21 | There was one I used to pick in another field years ago , a purple flower with pretty leaves which sometimes turned all colours , but I never knew its name . |
| 22 | I am excited and absorbed in my purpose to return to the inn but I never find my way there again . |
| 23 | The man 's face was indistinct , a tall mestizo with large , softly frowning features , but I still heard his voice clearly : ‘ Sucio . ’ |
| 24 | I must have been about nine , but I still remember my dad putting his back to the door , after Pikey had gone home from a seance . |
| 25 | But I still have my mother , three sisters , a sort of sister-in-law , and four nieces . |
| 26 | — but I still have my wedding-ring |
| 27 | Not everyone is like that , but I still think your future lies off-world . |
| 28 | ‘ Not him but someone else wearing his uniform . |
| 29 | The end of that war brought about many changes in Europe , one of which was the creation of a new mid-Europe nation which was originally named the ‘ Kingdom of Serbs , Croats and Slovenes ’ , but which formally changed its name in 1929 , to Yugoslavia . |
| 30 | But you just do your job ’ Severin Carrell recalls his visit to The Royal Scots in Ulster during which he met the young Scottish soldier who on Wednesday became the province 's 3,045th victim |