Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was much talk and many meetings but nothing came of this venture , then in May 1909 , the question of a bridge between Halling and Wouldham was again debated . |
| 2 | ( The city of Oxford in 1546 negotiated with Stumpe for a similar use of Osney Abbey , hoping to provide work for 2,000 people , but nothing came of this project . ) |
| 3 | The duty officer promised to get in touch but nothing happened for two days . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But I walked in one day and he says , You 'd ge better bugger off home , he says , . |
| 6 | ‘ Last night I finally realised what was missing from my design so I went to get it but I got into some problem . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ It may be more of an intuitive thing , but I considered at that time that there were shades of Edward VIII about him . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ But you dealt in those things yourself , ’ she protested . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But she had for several years been living a life which the word frugal does not even begin to describe accurately . |
| 17 | Sara did not care to be beholden to Matthew Preston for even one pupil , but she knew at this moment she could not afford to be choosey . |
| 18 | Jo loathed her blobby nose , her receding chin , her long body , her short legs , her droopy ass , her fat thighs , her white skin that absolutely refused to tan and her brown hair which frizzed and which her mother would n't even let her frost ; she accepted that she would never look like Faye Dunaway , never be a Prom Queen and that most of her body was a total disaster area , but she knew with absolute certainty that she had great tits . |
| 19 | But she knew with bleak certainty that , once she 'd left it , she would never , ever come back . |
| 20 | The crowd at the Cleveland County Stadium rose to salute Matthew 's efforts but she finished in 10 mins 20.4 secs , four hundredths of a second outside the qualifying time . |
| 21 | She has been coughing but she worked with sufficient sparkle at Lambourn on Saturday to persuade trainer Barry Hills that she is ready to put her reputation on the line . |
| 22 | Her faith in him was severely tested later , especially in 1908 and again in 1913 ; but she drew on deep reservoirs of resilience until the anxieties of his last year as a soldier began to sap her energies as housekeeper , mother , and gardener . |
| 23 | But she stayed on this balcony , her eyes on him , on this shape which fear had reduced to animal idiocy . |
| 24 | In fact it did — five months ago Wendy conceived , but she miscarried after five weeks . |
| 25 | One day she fell and broke her hip : it was repaired in hospital but she remained in some pain and was even more precarious on her feet . |
| 26 | His decision is now being appealed and Mrs Hamilton was in court yesterday when it was contended that Lord Prosser had been wrong to interpret the 1976 act in such a way as to exclude any case where a claim was made in respect of a person who was born alive but who died from ante-natal injury . |
| 27 | His decision was appealed and the parents claimed that he had been wrong to interpret the 1976 act in such a way as to exclude any case where a claim was made in respect of a person who was born alive but who died from ante-natal injury . |
| 28 | A great aunt , who was also pious , but who lived in manorial comfort , provides by contrast the most immaculate portrait of respected ageing : |
| 29 | Cos the same thing still apply because most of the stuff was new but we had of hot stuff over the years like . |
| 30 | Did I , but you you you brought it up last meeting , that that that erm people were going as supposed to be coming back with good ideas as to how to cope with interviews in other rooms , but we said in last time that we were going to have a personal round bill . |