Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Do n't ask me how — but I knew it without a shadow of a doubt . |
| 4 | But I , I mean I use it as a , that may be the psychology behind it , but I use it as a bad example of , for obvious reasons , and there 's a real bad example , and there may be some politics behind it , there 's What I think is a good example : ‘ Southeast Arts ’ sorry , ‘ Southeast Tourist Board , South of England Board . ’ |
| 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 | The Jolly Farmers has been demolished , but I remember it as a brick and pantile structure at the top end of the town . |
| 7 | It could be just down to good digestion and calm dreams , of course ; but I take it as a sign of happiness . |
| 8 | " 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | ‘ But I regard it as a penance . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | " I know you come over a little shy when I talk about you this way , Chuck , but I do it for a good reason , " continued the senator , lighting a Havana cigar with elaborate care . |
| 13 | But I did it with a heavy heart , I can tell you . |
| 14 | I know I should n't have gone near the sea , but I did it as a protest . |
| 15 | Er but I did it at a scale like erm one centimetre for o for every hour it 's blowing in that direction . |
| 16 | ‘ It would have taken forty-five minutes by bus , but I did it in a quarter of an hour by bike , ’ he said . |
| 17 | But I think I 'll stay here but I see myself as a internationalist as well . |
| 18 | But I see myself in a different life |
| 19 | I was terrified of him , but I found myself in a horrible Catch 22 situation . |
| 20 | Mr Multhrop bustled forward , but someone forestalled him with a glad cry . |
| 21 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 22 | He caught them and tried to hold her still but she fought him like a spitting cat . |
| 23 | Everyone else seemed to be roused by the War , but she saw it as a giant emotional hoax . |
| 24 | She had known this all along , but she knew it with a different knowledge now . |
| 25 | He tried to kiss her , but she evaded him in a half-angry , half-flirtatious way , so they were in the middle of a clumsy clinch when Lucaroni walked in . |
| 26 | But she bore herself like a queen as she slowly descended the stairs , and knew that Araminta , staring up from below , was disconcerted by the picture she made . |
| 27 | ’ Bramble began , but she silenced him with a glare from the astonishing blue eyes . |
| 28 | But she stopped me with a look . |
| 29 | But we change it at a company level . |
| 30 | But we see ourselves as a sound system , and in a way everybody is a part of Motion Incorporated . |