Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I was only a couple of years older myself , but I knew enough never to believe a word he said . |
| 2 | I was so unhappy but I had nowhere else to go so I stayed until the baby was born . |
| 3 | But I had now finally to conclude that the love and the joy and the laughter that was Leslie had vanished for ever . |
| 4 | ‘ But she came here specifically to see you ? ’ |
| 5 | But she turned up late to start off with . |
| 6 | She ordered herself to stop looking at him , but there seemed nowhere else to look , and somehow her greedy eyes would not shut . |
| 7 | But he managed very effectively to isolate Benn and others who leaned towards a siege economy . |
| 8 | He was often away a fortnight or three weeks at a time , but he came back here to use the cleaner . ’ |
| 9 | He knew of course that he never could meet them , but he wanted so badly to talk to them that he would get out their letters and pictures from his box of papers and talk quietly to them anyway . |
| 10 | But it flew well enough to confound the sceptics and won first place at the April 1978 Maryland Kite Festival . |