Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 But nothing reached her from the other cabin .
2 I have seen photographs of orca , both still and movie , close-up and underwater , but nothing prepares me for the sight of a real one that scythes out of the water 100 metres or so away from the boat .
3 But nothing prepares you for the blinding flash of flares and the noise of the thundercrackers as you run on to the field .
4 I have not discussed the essays by d " Auzac , Asher , Frowe , McGonigal , Seitz and Gibson , but I recommend them to the reader 's attention .
5 I ca n't read , but I took it to the priest and he read it to me . ’
6 They did n't want him , but I persuaded them in the end .
7 but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration .
8 ‘ I have a full staff here but I released them for the fiesta in Palma .
9 ‘ I never thought it would be so , but I miss her like the devil ! ’
10 Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required .
11 I disagreed with much of what he had to say , but I welcome him to the House from this Bench and look forward to debating these issues with him on many occasions .
12 But I left you on the couch .
13 But I put it at the bottom of the list and consider it can really be done without .
14 But I put it on the table because it is a risk .
15 I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . "
16 I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time .
17 But I knocked you to the floor , and the blow was so hard that it made my hand throb for hours afterwards .
18 I stepped closer and the young woman rose and made to flee but I seized her by the wrist .
19 That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order .
20 But I told him about the telly that it 's a bit beyond redemption .
21 But I told you on the phone did n't I , it rained and
22 I went to punch him but I caught him with the crowbar instead . ’
23 ‘ New-fangled ’ ideas , the farmer said , but I convinced him in the end .
24 This repeated general principles well known to a ( l good teachers , but I wanted them in the Report so there could be no doubt about the kind of teaching we admired .
25 She struggles , eyes widening further , but I pin her to the sheets with my weight and keep the glove firmly over her mouth even though she is n't making any noise .
26 But I did it through the love , fo , that I had for the couple , and that because they had waited sixteen year before they eventually found out they could n't have children !
27 He said it 's my fault ; but I did it for the best . ’
28 Yeah but I want it for the men that 's going to alter the gas .
29 No , but I hang it in the garage which is
30 He is certainly all that , but I see him as the new Jasper Johns — that great transformer of icons — with sex , shopping and the detritus of the suburbs in place of Johns 's targets , beer cans and flags .
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