Example sentences of "but [pron] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I eventually reached the motorway and headed north . |
| 2 | It did feel strange , but I rather liked the idea . |
| 3 | But I also saw the blood and noise of war . |
| 4 | But I also had the sense that Otto had something to do with Jean-Claude 's need for greater privacy . |
| 5 | That , on its own , was no problem , but I also had the misfortune to fall foul of one of the school bullies . |
| 6 | I enjoyed physical exercise , but I also enjoyed the thought that I was getting away with the sort of behaviour commonly considered inappropriate to a sixteen-year-old girl . |
| 7 | Yeah , but I also got a leaflet for refills as well |
| 8 | I brought the wine because I like it , which is no way to treat a lady , but I also liked the thought of sitting down with her , talking about interesting things , in the way you do with wine . |
| 9 | I am dark haired and tan quite easily , but I also have a lot of moles and freckles . |
| 10 | We must have sport , drama and music to enrich the children , but I also have an objective to make the children aware of city life and the wider world outside the community of small agricultural villages . |
| 11 | I want the maximum degree of unity , but I also want a treaty to be constructed that carries no inexorable commitment to a united states of Europe . |
| 12 | I want a galvanised chassis but I also want a diesel engine of about 3 litres capacity . |
| 13 | Now , I can take a sermon from any pretty woman and Mathilda was no exception , but I also caught the threat in her words . |
| 14 | ‘ I like having him at home , but I also need a day to myself now and again , just to be able to think my own thoughts . ’ |
| 15 | I knew I was n't being terribly respectful , but I just cupped the telephone , looked her up and down and said : ‘ Well , you could put some shoes on . ’ |
| 16 | comes back and says when the teacher come , the teacher was there this time , urgh the showers are on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and then they all start chanting Geoffrey switched the showers on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and er , loads of them , not just him , a load of them did it , and he , he started to cry , and then that was it then were n't it , ooh tiny tears , tiny tears , ooh poofter , poofter , crying and all that I mean he had a right day with it , so he goes to school this morning in Geography and the every body in the class , the girls and every body were going tiny tears , tiny tears , and he said I just ignored it today he says I just took no notice he says , but they 're all going , how 's your tears Geoffrey , are we going to cry again today , he says and they were trying to get me to cry today he says , but I just took no notice and Stuart kept going like this Geoff and he says I just went so he , he did the same back and then he went Geoff and Geoffrey just went , I mean what you do ? , |
| 17 | Well most of them they saying are six contracts , now they say , say , six month contract or eight month contract or a three month contract , but I just had a couple that were like oh they could be a |
| 18 | I was very , very sorry , but I just left the letter around and did n't see him for about three years . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ Merrill said , blindly thrusting her notebook into her handbag , ‘ but I already have a date . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But I already have an assault charge hanging over me , so in the end I had to leave it to the stewards . |
| 21 | But I well remember the shock of amazement to hear from the excavator that the trench dug to hold the vertical posts of the building , in the typical military method , was of one period and the vertical posts of another . |
| 22 | " But I finally borrowed the money against four future years " harvests of rice ! |
| 23 | We did have a couple of suicides , but I soon put a stop to that . |
| 24 | My great fishing love , until then , had been Lady Tweed , but I soon discovered the South Tyne was every bit as good , if not better , than the Queen of Scottish rivers ; and the stretch below our house was far enough upstream and far enough downstream from the main population centres to make it almost completely private . |
| 25 | After that I was blacked by the quality schools , but I soon landed a job for the rest of the year with a cowboy outfit in Italy who needed a replacement teacher in a hurry . |
| 26 | Crowe offered a pathetic excuse about investigating woodworm infestation for his nature column , but I soon beetled the truth out of him . |
| 27 | ‘ Her particular interest in industrial development issues has been most useful but I fully appreciate the pressure of her business commitments — and in turn the value to the Highlands ’ of her companies ' continuing successes . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ But I always like a beach to myself . |
| 29 | So I do n't usually fill it straight away anyway till I 'm finished and but I always put the date like today 's date . |
| 30 | I was really , really tired , I was dead tired and , but I always make the tea . |