Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them opened on to storerooms , or offices , which he was n't interested in , but eventually he found one door that opened into a chemical laboratory whose air was tangy with scents that irritated the nasal and throat passages . |
| 2 | The heat of the windless afternoon lay on her like a blanket , but suddenly she felt deathly cold . |
| 3 | But not everybody preferred one-day cricket : in sport , as in other social activities , the effects of media were controversial . |
| 4 | But finally I saw one animal come through the grass to play . |
| 5 | Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked . |
| 6 | I was miserable at the time , but later I realised Heavenly Father was looking after me because if Aunt Mary had said play , we 'd have gone out , and I 'd have missed the breakthrough . |
| 7 | By day the alleys that ran into a scruffy hinterland were rat-hole rubbish traps but now they seemed romantic lanes where lovers might meet under the bracket lamps and as the sun departed , watch the moon ride over a Grimms ' fairy tale huddle of pinnacled rooftops . |
| 8 | Later she would agonise over all the might have beens , but now she had other things on her mind , things that would n't wait . |
| 9 | But now she denied that memory . |
| 10 | But now it seemed this Adam Burns was determined to dredge up her other life all over again . |
| 11 | But now I slept this morning on the settee . |
| 12 | But today they asked regular shoppers to think back exactly one week , and some replies have been helpful . |
| 13 | And erm but then they 'd all Margaret and erm everybody had jumped on the bandwagon and said , . |
| 14 | But then they said this Casey was a cop . ’ |
| 15 | But then we stole one Polo shirt and that was it . |
| 16 | But then he booked one trip too many . |
| 17 | He had been better able to tolerate it ten years ago , but then he had drunk alcohol to be like other people and to impress , not because he liked it . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's wonderful , ’ said the man , but then he saw four Scots sitting at a table without a drink . |
| 19 | He certainly liked men more , but then he liked manly men not ‘ bloody queers ’ , so he had to be all right . |
| 20 | It was , of course , hilarious in itself but then I got this bit of smoked salmon ( coloured red of course ! ) and draped it across her upper lip and it looked a bit like a moustache . |
| 21 | I wanted you to know how important you are ; how much I care about you — value you ; and … . ’ her voice quivered and stopped , but then she took another breath and finished her declaration steadily enough : ‘ and how much I want you . ’ |
| 22 | But then she heard another faint groan and saw that a figure was sprawled immobile across the double bed in the centre of the room . |
| 23 | But then she produced another harpy-bat shrieked and vanished from screen . |
| 24 | The Development Corporation of Harlow New Town made a flat available , but unfortunately he had little opportunity to make his mark because of recurrent illness and eventually resigned his post in September 1958 . |
| 25 | I realise that prices for aquarium plants vary , but recently I purchased 18 pieces of Straight Vallis and 8 pieces of Rotala macrandra and was charged a staggering £9.05 . |