Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I had to piss , but I ran out of the house and walked around the streets wondering what the fuck to do and trying to imagine what Dad was saying to Mum and how she was taking it . |
| 2 | But I came out of the stand through the fire exit and I ca n't get back in . |
| 3 | But I looked out of the window as I spoke to him . |
| 4 | ‘ But I snap out of it when I get up . ’ |
| 5 | But I felt out of my depth so I suggested she talk to Pat Phillips , the Deaconess at St Mary 's in Newent , Gloucestershire , where we live . ’ |
| 6 | But I think out of this we 'll all look back you know and things , I mean it 's a bit of a cliche , but er it 's not gon na be the same again I do n't think it is gon na be the same again in Blaenau I think people have changed . |
| 7 | I mean I 've backed out of going , having , I 'm supposed to be working on that on the stalls as well but I backed out of that and said I 've got a hair cut , erm , so I 'll have to be done last . |
| 8 | And er I am I am a great great believer , but I feel out of that myself , as one of the things I 'm feeling out of . |
| 9 | Lambert dived , but nobody came out of the basket . |
| 10 | I have the greatest difficulty in finding the remotest sense in the policy of a party which says that it is in favour of investment but which goes out of its way by every possible means to penalise saving . |
| 11 | But you stay out of this . |
| 12 | ‘ Of course I do , but you get out of control at times , May . |
| 13 | I used to enjoy it when Alistair was a wee boy but you grow out of it |
| 14 | But she kept out of his way as his sister 's scraggy old cat did , streaking from its place by the fire the moment his feet were heard in the passage . |
| 15 | ‘ She was the Queen of France and the most beautiful and fascinating woman in Europe , but she fell out of love with her husband on a crusade to the Holy Land , when she met Henry the Second of England , who was much younger than her . ’ |
| 16 | He tried to slap Jeane Russell with his left hand , but she backed out of the way and just laughed at him . |
| 17 | I 'd never seen Mum dance before , but she slipped out of her sandals and danced with Auntie Jean to the Jackson Five . |
| 18 | At this point Mark alone includes the strange story of the young man who was also seized but who slipped out of his ‘ linen cloth ’ and escaped naked . |
| 19 | But who knows out of the 20,000 people who visited the event this year , there may be similar people to my brother and me who enjoy music to the full and who could be in the top three next year ! |
| 20 | I knitted myself a dress from that which started off fawn , but we ran out of that colour and I had to finish it off in blue . |
| 21 | It was no ordinary train , but one made up of fifty-seven carriages and hauled by no less than six locomotives that ran the fifty miles from London to the ‘ Daphne ’ of the Metropolis , as Brighton has sometimes been called ( to quote from The London Illustrated News of 7 December 1884 ) ; the journey took four and a half hours . |
| 22 | Four more S.79s were sent out from Sicily to search for it but one ran out of fuel and had to ditch , the crew being picked up by an Italian hospital ship . |
| 23 | But one comes out of it . |
| 24 | Director Terence Young assured him he would be perfectly safe behind toughened flexiglass but they ran out of sheets and there was a 4ft gap . |
| 25 | Camping but they ran out of money so he would n't be able to see her till payday . |
| 26 | — but they ran out of time |
| 27 | Good one too , from Defender , Shawn Taylor , but they ran out of time chasing the equaliser . |
| 28 | But they came out of them , as a rule , in no time at all . |
| 29 | Wild wolf cubs beg for food from their mothers and also bark but they grow out of such grovelling behaviour . |
| 30 | His report for 1988 concluded that ‘ in prison after prison men were still having to exist in conditions which offend against any standard of decency ’ , and he remarked , ‘ Properly fitting clean clothes and regular baths or showers are not luxuries but they remained out of reach for many inmates in 1988 ’ ( Home Office 1989b ) . |