Example sentences of "but [pron] [adv] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 2 | Patrick held both hands up in a gesture of peace , he smiled for a moment ; I 'm no trying to get at you personally but I just fucking feel that you cant expect the teacher to be the everything , the heavyweight boxing champion of the world . |
| 3 | I admit love deserted me for a moment , but I pretty soon realised that this was not her fault . |
| 4 | But I very soon noticed that , over the two beds nearest to mine , was the highly interesting word ‘ spiritualist ’ . |
| 5 | But I very soon found that I was much more like the companionable dog ! |
| 6 | Er My Lords , I do n't wish to prolong my remarks too much , but I really seriously believe that this is not the way in which legislative procedures should be carried out . |
| 7 | He says ; I thought I would not make the mistake with strangers but I never acyually thought when it happened it would be so convincing . |
| 8 | Consortia , in various stages of maturity , but none as far advanced as 88Open , have been set up for Sparc , IBM , DEC , HP and Transputer architectures . |
| 9 | But we never really believed that John Major was a sports fan until we saw him on that bleak Sunday afternoon at Stamford Bridge . |
| 10 | The point that the position of women is not an independent factor , a simple enough point in itself , but one often explicitly refused and , more commonly , implicitly ignored , is again one which most anthropologists would now entirely support , even though they rarely acknowledge Engels 's work . |
| 11 | Baudelaire argued for modernity , but he also strongly believed that a critic has the right to be partisan . |
| 12 | causing bad feeling or trying to upset her trade , I mean we know she 's rubbish but erm I , I said er I just said well the children who enjoy it enjoy it I said but he never really settled and er we felt that between us we 'd got over twenty years ' experience of working with children , we reckoned we knew a little bit more about what makes children tick . |
| 13 | But it just so happens that the Alu family is particularly well equipped to spread by this route . |
| 14 | Which in itself was no lie , but it just so happened that she 'd never been allowed to join the other children in such frivolous pastimes , she reflected with a touch of resentment . |
| 15 | The Council declared that the Church of Christ is to be found here , but it no longer says that it is not to be found anywhere else as well . |
| 16 | In 1660 the Company of Royal Adventurers had been formed to look for gold , but it very soon realized that the switch to using slaves in the West Indies to grow sugar had transformed the trading situation , and that the Dutch had done very well out of the new developments in the British West Indies . |
| 17 | A man could not become completely impoverished , but it only rarely happened that anyone grew rich . ’ |