Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'm sorry but where we went it was great |
| 2 | And for those who liked to go to the office every morning by the 8.15 there were class rooms and classes where nobody learnt very much but where everybody thought they were doing something . |
| 3 | He remembered that Firelight had to feed it with milk , but where she kept it he had no idea . |
| 4 | But so we got it there . |
| 5 | A spokesman for the club said yesterday that the players realised the serious nature of their action , but that they wanted their fate in their own hands . |
| 6 | There followed a time of uncertainty and bloodshed which was eventually resolved when the republic developed into an empire with Augustus as its first emperor from 27 B.C. The Augustan period from then until his death in A.D. 14 was one of the great and successful ages of man and , architecturally , this is reflected in the many great buildings which were erected under the auspices of Augustus whose boast was that when he came to Rome it was a city of bricks but that he left it a city of marble . |
| 7 | Florence of Worcester [ q.v. ] says Canute sent Edward and his brother Edmund to the Swedish king to be killed , but that he passed them to Hungary , where Edmund died and Edward married Agatha , daughter of the brother of an Emperor Henry . |
| 8 | Fisheries Minister Jan Henry Olsen said a quota would be set after the meeting of the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) in Kyoto in May but that he expected it to be in the range of a " few hundred " minke whales a year . |
| 9 | He said that social security benefits , which are tied to movements in the Retail Price Index , would reflect the change , but that he recognised its particular impact on people with low incomes and therefore Peter Lilley would take it into account when benefits were uprated next year . |
| 10 | I think that a little bit apprehensive on things like that , and course when he saw Tony asked whether ga , whether he could go and Tony said no , I 'm sorry Doc but that he said I 've got my ponies and things there and I do n't want people shooting there ! |
| 11 | She had dared to hope he felt more than desire , but that he loved her … |
| 12 | Few there be , are there few that be saved , well what does the bible say about this , first of all it teaches abundantly clearly that all may be saved , God is not partial , God has no favourites , he does n't love you more than he loves any body else , he does n't love me more than he loves you or you more than me , he does n't love you more than he loves ah any other racial group or any other ethnic group , he loves us all the same God so loved the world that he gave his only son Jesus Christ , here in his love , not that we love God says the apostle but that he loved us , the old testament profit reminds us that he has loved us with an ever lasting love , who , this was one of the hang ups that the Jewish nation had , they thought that they were the cats whiskers , he chose them , but he in fact did n't love them any more than he loved the , the hitites , the parasites , the gergasites and all the other ites , he loved them all the same , God is not partial in his love because he is love , if there was any body that God did not love he would actually cease to be God because love is not something that , that God does , you and I do it no matter how loving you are , or how loving you think you are , you are not love , you choose to love somebody and you love them , there are times when that love goes very thin sometimes , perhaps because of events that have happened , it can actually come to an end where that love dies , you withdraw your love God ca n't do that , God loves us as we 've said with an eternal love , a love that will go on throughout the endless ages of eternity |
| 13 | By this I do not mean that he did no experiments , but that he explained his results by hypothesizing the existence of entities for which he had no direct evidence . |
| 14 | So , repression , it 's not that Freud dropped the concept of repression but that he elaborated it and made it much more sophisticated , and the mechanisms of defence are the means , you could say they 're the means by which er repression erm comes about . |
| 15 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |
| 16 | But that I raised it knowing you hate it . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was n't that loneliness chose me , but that I chose it , proudly wrapping myself in it , like a cloak against the pollution of the world . |
| 18 | What Eleanor did tell him however , was that she was about to go on holiday but that she hoped he would come to a meal in her flat when she returned . |
| 19 | The answer she gave was not that she did n't know Mr Lawson 's stated reason for resigning , but that she found it incomprehensible . |
| 20 | but once they knew it meant going to India |
| 21 | Oh , it was great to have clothes to wear again , real clothes , beautiful clothes , clothes that had been created with genius and handled with adoration , shy , deceiving little artefacts that seemed just lengths of cloth but once you possessed them would flow over your body like enchanted water and transform you into something magical . |
| 22 | ‘ But once he told me that he was n't about to change and that he was likely to be a lifetime philanderer , I saw red and thought , ‘ Screw you ! |
| 23 | But although she said it she could not be certain that it was true . |
| 24 | But although she opened her mouth to make it quite clear to her infuriating parent that she was not , never would be , and never wanted to even think about being in love with Luke Hunter , somehow the words would n't come . |
| 25 | Naturally , Eliot was pleased about my enthusiasm for Collingwood , for whom he had considerable regard ; but although he told me he liked the Essay on Philosophical Method , which had appeared in 1933 and concerning which I had attended Collingwood 's lecture-course in my first year , I could see that he was more interested in such works as A. E. Taylor 's Faith of a Moralist , or more directly theological works , such as those of Jacques Maritain . |
| 26 | But although he aimed it at Nicholas , it fired into the air , for the boy knocked it sideways and held it . |
| 27 | He was put clean through by Ray Houghton in the 68th minute , rounded goalkeeper Bryan Gunn but although he steadied himself to convert from only six yards , he somehow failed to even hit the target . |
| 28 | One of the officials with whom I had dealings was John Hampden , who years later was to become a colleague ; but although he did his best to be co-operative , it was the men who held the purse-strings that counted , and , going between the MOI and Faber 's , I could not extract from officialdom any commitment and Eliot naturally needed certain specific undertakings regarding finance before Faber 's could think of commissioning a book , which also needed the Ministry 's imprimatur . |
| 29 | In 1941 he stood as an independent candidate in four by-elections ; but although he retained his deposit on each occasion , there was to be no political comeback for this highly cantankerous patriot . |
| 30 | His Questions au soleil levant received the Grand Prix de Poesie de l'Academie Francaise , but although it awarded him medals , the Academy never granted him the membership that was his life 's ambition . |