Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing reached her from the other cabin . |
| 2 | Mills Roberts was a stickler for discipline but everyone recognised him as a good soldier and therefore , for all his shouting , he was a popular figure . |
| 3 | This was best summed up by Everett , the market gardener : ‘ She were never a gel , but I knew her as a young woman and she were old then . ’ |
| 4 | Do n't ask me how — but I knew it without a shadow of a doubt . |
| 5 | At planning meetings with the senior management I often had to endure predictable little jokes about Andreas 's ‘ harem ’ , but I took them with a good grace . |
| 6 | I ca n't read , but I took it to the priest and he read it to me . ’ |
| 7 | They did n't want him , but I persuaded them in the end . |
| 8 | ‘ I read about it at the time , but I heard none of the details . |
| 9 | He recognized that this was contrary to the opinion of the pope and others at the papal court , but he put it forward as his own : ‘ others certainly may have thought of it , but I received it from no one ’ . |
| 10 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 11 | ‘ I have a full staff here but I released them for the fiesta in Palma . |
| 12 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 13 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 14 | But I left you on the couch . |
| 15 | I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time . |
| 16 | But I knocked you to the floor , and the blow was so hard that it made my hand throb for hours afterwards . |
| 17 | I stepped closer and the young woman rose and made to flee but I seized her by the wrist . |
| 18 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 19 | " 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 . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | But I told him about the telly that it 's a bit beyond redemption . |
| 23 | But I told you on the phone did n't I , it rained and |
| 24 | Welford said : ‘ He grabbed me by the lapels and cuffed me across the face , but I shielded myself from the rest of his blows . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I went to punch him but I caught him with the crowbar instead . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ New-fangled ’ ideas , the farmer said , but I convinced him in the end . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But I did it with a heavy heart , I can tell you . |
| 30 | 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 ! |