Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 2 | She looked at the moon , the lake , and the dark forest beyond , but she saw only defeat . |
| 3 | But we heard yesterday Mr Williamson about a dispute and I ca n't remember which district council it was with , it may have been Harrogate , between the county and the district councils on one allocation in the local plan . |
| 4 | We played very well , but we gave away goals and I 'd hate to see throw-away goals like that on a regular basis . ’ |
| 5 | But he admitted inevitably employers would try to translate the grades and probably pick applicants with higher marks . |
| 6 | He raised his arm to see its motion in the flesh of his thumb , and clamped his other hand around the base of the digit in the hope of stopping its further advance , gasping as though doused with ice-water. the pain was out of all proportion to the mite 's size , but he held both thumb and sobs hard , determined not to lose all dignity in front of his executioners . |
| 7 | Paul Gascoigne is also troubled by a cold , but he trained yesterday afternoon and , apart from Platt , it is only Batty and Dixon who are real concerns , and Taylor added : ‘ I know I may have to look at bringing another right-back and a midfielder , but I am keeping my fingers crossed about Dixon because there are no other right-backs around at the moment . ’ |
| 8 | But he stood only feet away , towering above her . |
| 9 | In the final section you did pay close attention to detail , but it remained only observation of detail . |