Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US Seniors ' Tour may outstrip the USPGA Tour in terms of waistlines and average age , but no-one expected its leading money winner to also claim higher earnings . |
| 2 | I was laughing , but I sensed his sudden excitement . |
| 3 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
| 4 | ‘ But I took my English books with me . ’ |
| 5 | I was tipsy But I heard my twotiming lips say You 're my true |
| 6 | But I ruined my own life — and more importantly I ruined Ashi 's too — because I refused to admit that I was what I was . ’ |
| 7 | He could be quite maddening at times , but I had my own concerns and had to leave it at that . |
| 8 | That was all very well , but I had my own position to consider . |
| 9 | But I kept my big mouth shut . |
| 10 | ‘ She did n't want it coloured or layered , but I felt her original style was too long and dragged her down . ’ |
| 11 | I know you 'll understand when I say my husband 's a one for the usquebaugh , I was about to correct him with the pressure-cooker once but I remembered my Victorian values just in time . |
| 12 | It had n't struck us till then that we had laughed particularly , but I remembered my old Headmistress at that moment ! |
| 13 | Egalitarianism 's never been my strong suit , but I overcame my natural snobbery and banged on the door . |
| 14 | But I gave my genuine reason for returning earlier , which was the Arts Council 's monthly meeting , in which I was deeply interested and whose chairman I was at the time . |
| 15 | ‘ I never thought I 'd be able to pick out Matthew , but I found his individual scent unmistakable , without really being conscious of it , ’ said Adele . |
| 16 | Yeah but you ignored her last week . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , there 's the lav and the 'andbasin that 's on the landin' , ’ said Mrs Beavis , ‘ but you got your own gas ring in the corner there . |
| 18 | Many tried to imitate him , but none had his quirky genius . |
| 19 | Carrie was uncertain whether it was what she wanted to hear him say , but she accepted his brief gesture of affection and smiled up at him . |
| 20 | He went to Italy on his own and eventually made himself pick up a girl in Rome , mostly for the sake of having someone to speak his new Italian to , but she thought his intense shyness some sort of perversion and kicked him out . |
| 21 | I had the dubious pleasure of watching the first-ever episode , in which Des ( the bank manager ) was about to marry Julie ( Jim 's daughter ) , but she discovered his stag-night stripper ( Daphne , later killed in a car crash ) still in the house on the morning of the wedding ! |
| 22 | But she kept her best argument to last — until he was driven to assure her that ‘ we people in the City have all these matters perfectly under control now , you know . ’ |
| 23 | But she had her fair share of steel in her make-up , and she made a vow to herself which echoed eerily down the lonesome length of the lake . |
| 24 | The answer to that she did not yet know , but she had her own answer already sworn , and she would not go back on it . |
| 25 | Aminah Husain Sumpton , a freelance trainer and guardian ad litem , welcomed the Children Act but she said its full potential had not been achieved . |
| 26 | Mrs Mantini did not upbraid her , but she pursed her tangerine lips and made a great thing of getting ready to go out in a hurry . |
| 27 | A close association with Derek Jarman has helped establish her current arthouse ascendancy , but she reached her widest audience with Your Cheatin' Heart on television . |
| 28 | But she ignored his last question . |
| 29 | She would n't wake him — but she wished her nagging pain would go away . |
| 30 | Julia felt too tired and afraid to speak , but she lifted her heavy eyelids again and looked at him . |