Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also appealed to the Government to respond to an extraordinary press conference given by the Iranian chargé d'affaires in London on the anniversary of Terry Waite 's imprisonment a few weeks ago , but no-one took much notice of that , either . |
| 2 | I remember seeing , but I heard fucking result on News at Ten . |
| 3 | But I received another note from Mellowes ; it said I was not to leave the office ; I was not to answer the phone ; above all I was not to speak to the press . |
| 4 | PC Kelly went on : ‘ I did not hear anything but I saw two flashes from the barrel of the gun and I presumed he had shot Goodman twice . ’ |
| 5 | Could n't really tell you what it was now , but I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 6 | ‘ Everyone says how awful the teenage years are , and we had our share of rows and problems , but I enjoyed those years with my children — far better than the baby or toddler stages . ’ |
| 7 | I decided I must go up to Addis Ababa and try to get permission to start again , but I had little hope of succeeding . |
| 8 | I can not claim to have been a close friend , but I had occasional encounters with him and , as with most people , it would be more accurate to describe them as occasional brushes . |
| 9 | But I had three glasses of sherry quickly . |
| 10 | But I had considerable difficulty in tracking any down . |
| 11 | But I met one girl by accident when I walked into the hostel one night and she was visiting another girl there . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I do n't know , ’ says Charles , ‘ but I met this girl in television the other evening , and she said people are going to be dropping off your Matterhorn thing like fleas off a dog . ’ |
| 13 | But I got 75 cents off a New Old Fashioned Patty Melt … |
| 14 | ‘ The pet shop refused a refund but I got one thanks to DAS , ’ he says . |
| 15 | ‘ But I got quick support from Albert Craig and Ray Farningham coming from midfield , ’ he admitted . |
| 16 | I met a brother-in-law who told me to leave but I stayed another night in our new house just outside the village . |
| 17 | I do not remember whether we enlivened the day with a penny ride on a donkey round the White Stone pond but I regarded these donkeys with the respect and admiration rarely afforded by the keenest jockey for his mount and one of my day-dreams ( only once realised and then somehow a little disappointing ) was to save up three weeks ' pocket money and have a 3d ride in place of a Id one , which took you for at least a hundred yards along the Spaniards Road . |
| 18 | In fact there were very few guide dogs at that time and erm I 've never felt that erm it 's , I mean maybe just my erm silliness really but I , I never wanted a dog lying about all day because once at the office I stayed put as it were until it was time to go home and I could have taken the dog I suppose during the lunch hour but I preferred that time to erm to reading |
| 19 | But I dismissed these thoughts from my mind and entered our house . |
| 20 | I said well now can I see his room , she said well really I 've cleared the room since he 's gone , but I found some papers in the room , which indicated that he was a convict on licence . |
| 21 | But someone sent those cars after us and whoever he is , he 'll soon know we were n't involved . |
| 22 | He had a hammer and banged it against the walls to restore order but nobody took any notice of him . |
| 23 | Cleo cried out , but nobody took any notice of her . |
| 24 | Aliki had returned from Cyprus in time to cater for the event , but nobody displayed much appetite for the food she had prepared and most departed as soon as decency permitted . |
| 25 | A work ethos was established that was individualistic , acquisitive and incentive-oriented , but which had little sense of solidarity or mutuality that might supersede this narrowly-conceived achievement ethic . |
| 26 | In the September parliament of 1328 he received the title Earl of March , an honour which was amply justified in terms of his wealth and territorial power but which aroused some hostility amongst the other earls . |
| 27 | mhm Well , David Brian , now you 're a doctor and a reverend and your the curate at Christ Church in Abingdon , but you spent some time over there in Saints Mary and John Church . |
| 28 | what would happen if you , let's have a look at G , depends on , what would happen if you were still paying fifty pence , but they gave you four hundred , four hundred grams of chocolate , well you get eight grams per penny , this is another test that you got it the right way up , if it were still only two hundred grams , but you payed more money for it , let's say they charged you a pound , I think you 'd get less grams per penny . |
| 29 | One further volunteer from Brefet , out of six HLA-B53 positive individuals tested , showed HLA-B53-restricted CTL responses to the ls6 peptide but none recognized any peptide from the other three antigens . |
| 30 | After what he 'd said she did n't dare turn the key in the lock , but she made short work of undressing . |