Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 2 | er er you were going , you were going well with the , the pension you , you wanted him and your diagram was good and he was going for it but directly you showed him the diagram then you started on about this er |
| 3 | But then she remembered what the wise old turtle had told her about putting herself in the dog 's place , and doing what she would want to have done to her . |
| 4 | As a child she had not had time for many fairy stories and did not now know them to tell to her daughter again , but instead she showed her the pictures . |
| 5 | Ministers had rejected the report but politically it took us the next two general elections to repair the damage . |