Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're not going to believe this , ’ said Alex , ‘ but I actually picked up the phone to call you this morning , except I realized it would have been the middle of the night your end so I put it down again . ’ |
| 2 | I , I , I , I did it , but I only missed out the two people that were away . |
| 3 | For once the little gate was locked , but she quickly pulled back the stone bolt and slipped outside , drawing the gate closed but not relocking it : she would need to be as little delayed as possible if she were to get back unnoticed , and the first servants rose early , at the ninth hour of night . |
| 4 | The students not only tore down the separate ‘ Ladies ’ and ‘ Gentlemen ’ notices from the lavatories … but they even painted out the distinction between first floor and second , between second and third and so on : even purely functional classifications of space had to go , just as the watches and clocks had to be discarded in order to free time . |
| 5 | At half-time Gloucester were only a penalty down , but they soon made up the three points and took the game with the only try . |
| 6 | Attrition is low , and they do n't want to stop recruiting , but they certainly slowed down the intake . |
| 7 | How Alan kept his temper I will never know , but he quietly sorted out the mess , mounted a huge Loch Ordie , rowed out from the shore again and handed me the fly rod : ‘ Here , Bruce , you fish , I 'll work the dap and mind the oars . ’ |