Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I knew that it was time to leave , and we said goodbye to them on New Year 's Eve . |
| 2 | But I knew that it was no massive dental operation in progress but that the sluice itself was blocked by leaves , that the water going into the pipe which fed the turbine was at a minimum and that if I did n't get up and deal with the problem the turbine would shut down and the melin would be pretty cold in the morning . |
| 3 | Soon I , too , was very distressed , but I knew that it was going to be dead within a few hours , and I was helpless . |
| 4 | But I knew that it would be difficult to persuade Jimbo that he had to work at the exercises : yet if the treatment were to succeed , it had to be him — Jimbo himself — who , in the end , would reopen the pathway of nerves between brain and muscle . |
| 5 | It 's been a lot of hard work but I knew that it would be when I first came on to the Tour . |
| 6 | I did not ask him why , but I sensed that it was because he knew the culprit . |
| 7 | But I gathered that it was because of some kind of political dissent , his being a member of an unauthorized group that had held secret meetings . |
| 8 | As predicted , he was holding a bottle , but I saw that it was almost if not quite full . |
| 9 | but I looked and it was actually |
| 10 | But I said that it is always a good sign when things go wrong before the night . |
| 11 | So I said well I 've never been in the situation but I said if it , if it was , if I was in that situation I , asked to see the manager or person in charge , make an offer to pay for any damage that was done and if that did n't suffice then I would say well I am the care officer for a Mencap home and the only thing I can do is say will you er get in touch with my boss and it 'll have to be sorted out from Head Office and she said perfect , you could n't do anything better , then she give me all different things that we 've gone into the next day and the patient 's done everything down the bed , what would you do ? |
| 12 | I read a lot of books , and I knew the theory of it very well , but I failed when it came to the practice . |
| 13 | ‘ But I understood that it had been arranged that one of us was to go into each room . ’ |
| 14 | I , with a mother 's intuition , had suspected that ‘ things ’ were not right but I expected that it was one of those ‘ hiccups ’ … ) not so , I 'm afraid . |
| 15 | Yes , yes , that 's right , they use , yeah , but I insisted that it were open doors for you as jobs were so hard to get , I said it were open doors for you and it did it helped them both . |
| 16 | It meant driving up to the London Passport Office a few times and waiting around there for interminable periods , but I hoped that it was going to be worth it . |
| 17 | I felt I could pretend that you were , it was a secret I had , I almost told you once or twice , but I thought that it might spoil things , that … |
| 18 | I am aware that it is not possible for me to call every Scottish Member at Scottish Question Time , but I thought that it was fair today — I hope that the House will agree — to get as far down the Order Paper as I possibily could . |
| 19 | I have been fearfully worried , but I felt that it had to come . |
| 20 | Perhaps he was going to Porteneil to get drunk in the Rock Hotel , or perhaps he was off to Inverness , where he often goes on business he prefers to keep mysterious , but I suspected that it was really something to do with Eric . |
| 21 | But I supposed that it was only the sweet pain of yearning the sweet uncertainty of what-may-perhaps-be . |
| 22 | Er and they may have thought it was not acceptable from that point of view but you felt that it was okay . |
| 23 | He would not talk about it , and you knew not to ask more , but you realised that it must have been the time in his life when he most resembled himself . |
| 24 | She had lined her pencil-box with pond-weed ready to receive the creature , but she discovered that it was not easy to get the newt out of the hat and into the pencil-box . |
| 25 | One of the handful of paid staff , a young woman of about seventeen , was full of energy and enthusiasm , but she said that it was very difficult to keep enough volunteers to teach . |
| 26 | She said alright it 's twenty five quid , it 's an expense but she said but it 's something that she 'll keep . |
| 27 | So she said well I 'll put that on the thing , but she said if it goes to Crown Court you 'll have to , I said well |
| 28 | She had suspected in Lucca , all those months ago , that Mrs Browning no longer cared for her as once she had done but she saw that it was worse than that : she was a nuisance , plain and simple . |
| 29 | Incongruously festive for a stretcher , but she saw that it would serve the purpose very well . |
| 30 | She gazed at Johnny beseechingly , begging him to understand , but she knew that it was going to be no good . |