Example sentences of "but [adv] i [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 2 | ‘ They awarded me a seat behind a pillar for this French farce , but foolishly I moved to a place where I had a full view of the stage . |
| 3 | But so I sat in the Barbican up up at the around at the same level as the Royal Festival . |
| 4 | My reaction probably seems polite and restrained , but inside I explode with the feelings voiced by Hugh Macdiarmid : ‘ Scotland , small ? |
| 5 | I did not notice where I was walking , but soon I came to the station . |
| 6 | The wind and rain beat down on me , and I fell down several times , but finally I arrived at a long , low house , standing rather isolated in the middle of the moor . |
| 7 | But once I got to the hospital and after the operation the doctor reassured me it was a straightforward and took forty-five minutes . |
| 8 | Before without really knowing it , I was just preparing for that one lesson to get through that one lesson , but partly I think as a matter of survival in this situation , because I had never taught children before and really did n't have an overview at that point . |
| 9 | But later I returned to the subject . |
| 10 | It was probably some arrangement of S– and R — 's , but whenever I came into a room where they were , they trickled out ! |
| 11 | It was an extra cost but also I learned in the end like the top earners do er and I guess I was mister average because I was coming in to do this job not that one , erm I I decided or worked out that I could do two or three deals in a day between a certain hour . |
| 12 | I used at times to feel somewhat worried when she would play the supremely confident coquette with me and I would be enthralled by her charms , but then I came to the conviction , some time ago , that such moments of relatedness could only be nourishing for her developing personality as well as delightful to me . |
| 13 | But then I thought on a while and raised my finger . |
| 14 | Now I can understand that isolation , but then I felt like the stray cat of Egypt , not only unloved but undeserving of all regard . |
| 15 | But then I return to the knifeblade , flexing gently under my weight as I try to shift my centre of gravity as far as possible over my feet to protect the belay . |
| 16 | Our police are so busy trying to catch the culprits , but then I read in the Press last week of a young man causing £60,000 of damage by graffiti and getting off free because it would be a waste of public money to put him on probation . |
| 17 | Oh they bag something terrible but then I say at the price I 'm not gon na buy them , I 'm not , but in the Dodger 's there 's not one small in any colour |
| 18 | But then I arrive outside the house . |
| 19 | But then I found in the same week in the relatively liberal UK magazine Time Out several references to women as ‘ chicks ’ and ‘ broads ’ . |