Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We still cherished the idea of putting together a ‘ counterblast ’ ; but I perceived in due course that we had begun to differ regarding the objective to be demolished . |
| 2 | But I walked in one day and he says , You 'd ge better bugger off home , he says , . |
| 3 | But I came through all that and thought , I 'm never going to feel guilty about how I feel again , or what I want to do . |
| 4 | Then she discovered that it was Travis she had to thank that the news of her engagement to his cousin was all over Vasey 's , as , still smiling , he stated , ‘ Hope you do n't mind , Naylor , but I came in earlier to have a quick word with Leith , and could n't resist telling her assistant that a possible reason for Leith being late this morning could be her getting engaged to you at the weekend . ’ |
| 5 | It came on fitfully , but not so violently , several times on Thursday , and began severer threats towards night ; but I took between sixty and seventy drops of laudanum , and sopped the Cerberus , just as his mouth began to open . |
| 6 | under her shawl , but I looked in vain from |
| 7 | ‘ Last night I finally realised what was missing from my design so I went to get it but I got into some problem . ’ |
| 8 | But I got with that some some time . |
| 9 | Yeah but I got by these people who 've been to Jamaica , says that he gi if you give five pound tip for there , there what 's erm they do n't like it , it 's not enough , they wo n't speak to you no more . |
| 10 | Now this was not a phrase I had ever used , but I hoped with all my heart that it was true . |
| 11 | As I did not have a woman companion , they tended to ignore me , but I called to one and bought a little bouquet to put in my hotel bedroom 's tooth-glass . |
| 12 | But I paid about four hundred for it Oh but you had to if you wanted it . |
| 13 | But I moved into cheaper digs near the hospital and did manage to keep the second-hand Austin Seven I had bought five years previously . |
| 14 | ‘ It may be more of an intuitive thing , but I considered at that time that there were shades of Edward VIII about him . |
| 15 | I started back to the field but I fetched on round and went home instead . ’ |
| 16 | And I was really wrecked and I was I was n't even actually ill I just sat , well I was eventually but I sat on this wall for about four hours , yeah |
| 17 | ‘ But I wedded with one of the Undying Ones : Manannan , great Lord of the Sea . |
| 18 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 19 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 20 | ‘ I had little to do with raising the money , but I watched in considerable awe those who did : Alan Hayling , Horsley , Chris Walsh and others . |
| 21 | They made the driver help them , but I stood to one side stamping my feet to keep warm and watching the horizon with keen interest . |
| 22 | What , any other things that you 'd got , but I talked to each group individually , erm but if you want to share any of your thoughts with everybody else I 'm standing in the way . |
| 23 | ‘ But 'e died in 1937 . ’ |
| 24 | but you knew about that , there 's two open , both |
| 25 | ‘ But you dealt in those things yourself , ’ she protested . |
| 26 | Philip brought his young bride Ann Escourt to his ‘ new mansion ’ , as a neighbour described it , but she died within three years at the age of twenty-four and is buried here in the churchyard . |
| 27 | And then six or seven years later I married again , but she died in nineteen seventy-three . |
| 28 | They married in 1945 , but she died in 1986 and he has since married again . |
| 29 | He was attached to his mother , but she died in 1926 , while Nasser was away living with his uncle in Cairo . |
| 30 | There was an old lady in it , but she quit at five to eight . |