Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing gave me the right to say it now . |
| 2 | I have n't , I have n't got a clue but I knew it the minute the second you said it I knew it . |
| 3 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 4 | People say they become imperceptive ; they spend hours looking for the car keys that were on the table in front of them all the time ; they become preoccupied and inattentive to what other people are saying to them ( ‘ But I told you the Smiths were coming over yesterday . |
| 5 | I think I said it was a 6-iron or maybe a 7 , but I gave him the yardage and he hit his shot right at the hole . |
| 6 | I was utterly baffled , but I gave you the benefit of every doubt , which by this time added up to a couple of thousand . |
| 7 | Thomas was sent for tests but nobody knew what the problem was . |
| 8 | One of the tragedies to that it has now become so expensive but is very difficult but not because it was sponsored but somebody told me the other night that the Billy Connolly programme excuse me Billy Connolly programme about art and culture was |
| 9 | Good try — but you got it the wrong way round ! |
| 10 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 11 | Er so I 'm gon na have them but she showed me the small room , what they call the small room , well that was huge well it will be perfect for what we want . |
| 12 | Folly doubted if she would care what Luke got up to , but she gave her the flowers none the less . |
| 13 | The yeuk was the Well just as you would say er Just a hook but we called it the yeuk Y E U K. |
| 14 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 15 | In 1686 he became a London alderman , sitting for Broad Street ; but he discharged himself the following year , probably in anticipation of the purging of Anglicans from the bench . |
| 16 | ‘ But he gave me the car … . ’ |
| 17 | I do n't quite know why , but he gave me the impression , without uttering more than a few words , that he had much more than superficial knowledge , and an amusing touch of the sardonic as well . |
| 18 | When he and his brothers left this world , I could not go with him , but he gave me the gift of never growing old . |
| 19 | General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt . |
| 20 | Police were told and tailed Newall but he gave them the slip and fled from Britain on a yacht he inherited from his parents , a court in Gibraltar heard . |
| 21 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 22 | I did n't know quite what to answer , but he saved me the trouble . |
| 23 | Not only did this save the horses the pull up the hill through the village , but it gave them the occasion for one more glimpse of Tamar and the children , who stood on the steps , waving . |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't explain , but it gave me the most terrible feeling . |
| 25 | Quite unwittingly you played right into my hands that night , Aurora — I knew you had n't been taking drugs , but it gave me the perfect excuse for sticking around . |
| 26 | ‘ You came to in the middle of it , unfortunately for you , but it gave me the opportunity to make a superficial examination . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Yes — no doubt she is — but what gave you the idea that I have such a plan in mind ? ’ |