Example sentences of "but [pron] [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paint surface grew a little cracked and mouldy , but nothing else seemed to be happening . |
| 2 | Their lascannon ball turrets swivelled alertly but nothing else seemed to be in the vicinity . |
| 3 | Robin and Jenny were the ones who had adventures , fell walking or sailing on the lake , always coming home with hair-raising stories ; but nothing ever happened to Ruth . |
| 4 | John , with his weight , could get up momentum ( and courage ) enough to go hurtling and somersaulting off the end ; but everyone else came to a halt before the end , despite desperate jerks , which added no more than inches to the length of their slide . |
| 5 | For a little while I was afraid I was going to land in the middle of a town , but I mercifully drifted to the edge of this . |
| 6 | And she called me later , and said , ‘ Excuse me , but I just talked to Fred and I told him the story , and he 's invited you to tea tomorrow at his house . ’ |
| 7 | near , well not quite seven so I mean I do n't have to do a lot but I just liked to er take my time and you know |
| 8 | Actually , I 'd been waiting for somebody else but I just happened to be on hand and I could n't just stand there and watch her struggle with all those boxes , suitcases , typewriters , bicycles , stereo systems and so on . |
| 9 | ‘ But I just tried to be patient , and one day everything just started to be okay again . |
| 10 | It briefly attracted my attention , but I soon returned to the more intellectual business of marking exam scripts . |
| 11 | I had only recently heard of the existence of such places , but I gradually came to the conclusion that she was running a small brothel of which she herself was the centre of interest . |
| 12 | He 'd threaten that I 'd not get any money the next week , but I always managed to . |
| 13 | ‘ I was not the great campaigning journalist , but I always wanted to be able to give facts , be they favourable or unfavourable to the authorities . ’ |
| 14 | Well , you know , it you see , time were , I do n't know I suppose , I do n't know but I never seemed to be afraid and I used to have my or something round my waist , a belt with the keys hanging on and they supplied me with a as well , one of these , I do n't know what they 're made of they were n't all that heavy but still they were heavy enough to keep on . |
| 15 | Yes , I was aware of him , but I never managed to lassoo him . |
| 16 | Well er School , but I never went to school not un , at five . |
| 17 | But I never listened to what God really wanted me to do . |
| 18 | He had one or two best pals after Bernard , but I never took to any of them ; and as he got older he never brought anybody with him when he came on a visit . |
| 19 | But I never talked to her . |
| 20 | It seems strange now , but I never complained to classmates or teachers . |
| 21 | I was aware that the impending birth of AC2 Herriot 's child did not influence the general war strategy but I still wanted to be as near to Helen as possible at the time . |
| 22 | But I certainly got to the delegate meeting . |
| 23 | Crofting made its impact when we moved house from one of the quiet streets , in the middle of the town , to the road which was planned by a wealthy proprietor as an elegant tree-lined approach to Lews Castle , but which also happened to be the shortest route between a dozen crofting villages , lying to the east of the town , and their 19,000 acres of general common pasture which lay to the west . |
| 24 | They thought of the movies as a mechanical novelty , a meaningless and trivial craze which might be allowed to provide a moment 's distraction at a music-hall or vaudeville show but which normally belonged to the amusement arcade or fairground . |
| 25 | I believe we are already lost ’ , an analysis which the Empress kept to herself , but which soon proved to be all too correct , for in the early days of August the French armies suffered three defeats at the battles of Spicheren , Wissembourg and Froeschwiller . |
| 26 | No , last week you probably would have got the little joining letter with map , but you probably talked to people in the branch who may have been there , or you talked to your manager , or you picked up the phone and said , how do I get here , you may have even got the map out if you were driving , to actually see what junction you came off the motorways and things like that . |
| 27 | I tried to contact you from time to time but you always seemed to be somewhere else . ’ |
| 28 | It was it was fun when we first started , because the weather was nice , you know it was er you c take a thermos up and have a picnic and sit in the chair and read a book or whatever if there was no one around , but after a while when it became a duty , yeah it was hard work getting up on a winter 's morning , knowing full well that you probably would n't see any cars if you down in until about ten in the morning , but you still had to be there at seven o'clock , and honking it down with rain or whatever . |
| 29 | She did n't mean to , but she finally came to terms with the lateness of the hour with a yawn ; it was already happening before she could stop it . |
| 30 | Beatrix helped us , but she also lied to us . |