Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know why but I chucked it back in the water . |
| 2 | I am sorry not to have replied to your fax sooner but I passed it on to the wrong person for answers to your questions on promo videos . |
| 3 | Mamma warned me that they were very rich , but I took them up to my room and stuffed the lot . |
| 4 | Plenty of minnows , but I throw them back in . |
| 5 | Now at the beginning of the year , I have no idea how this particular week in November is going to pan out , so I ca n't put it in for a specific day , but I put it in on the Sunday , because it 's specific to that week . |
| 6 | But I put it down to a natural wish on Jefferson 's part to protect what for him was a considerable investment in a new club and , if Harley 's new agent had exacted his usual pound , or stone rather , of flesh , a considerable investment in a golf pro . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought about that too , sir , but I put it out of my mind . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ At the last moment she tried to back out but I dragged her back by the elbow . |
| 9 | Matthew , as usual , was unwilling to answer a straight question , but I got it out of him in the end . |
| 10 | There 's a file of that , of course , but I make it up from my working diary , and nobody will know if I make some extracts from the diary . " |
| 11 | I know it looks rather exaggerated but I wanted them back without a lot of questions . ’ |
| 12 | They did n't hurt exactly , it was more of a niggly pain but I worked it out to about once every four minutes or so and my mum said we 'd better ring the hospital . |
| 13 | He usually stops eating for a couple of days but I talk him out of it . |
| 14 | But I give it back to er cos I have two pleadings bundles . |
| 15 | Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’ |
| 16 | But I finish them off in the er in it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ No , but you left it out in the street . ’ |
| 19 | But you helped me out with my grades so I 'll overlook that . ’ |
| 20 | There were two , but she knotted one out of the way . |
| 21 | It was n't real muslin but she made it out of this material . |
| 22 | Everything went wrong , but she got me out of trouble . |
| 23 | Preston stumbled out of bed and tried to give her a hug , but she fought him off as if it was an attack . |
| 24 | Comfort shook it and murmured something formally polite , but she looked him over in rather obvious disdain , tilting back her small head to see his face . |
| 25 | But she married me out of simple respect . |
| 26 | By this time Mum is worried about me , but she covers it up by joking . |
| 27 | But she coaxed him along with her unwaveringly sympathetic smile , and he ordered everyone to dismantle the tables and re-set them . |
| 28 | John Major is understood to have offered her a junior minister 's job at the Home Office , but she turned it down on the grounds that it was not sufficiently senior . |
| 29 | For one terrifying moment she thought he was going to subdue her again but she threw him off with a shove . |
| 30 | But she gave herself up to police and told them her real motive was to win attention for emotional problems . |