Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I have the slip somewhere , and my father I did n't keep it but my father must have kept it , but I discovered it one day and it was seven and thruppence I think for the first week 's pay . |
| 2 | ‘ But I promised you that painting on your wedding day , and I had to send it . ’ |
| 3 | We agreed that the accusation was obviously nonsense , but I warned him that rape , like child abuse , was a powerfully charged topic at present in England . |
| 4 | I apoligise for putting a long list of questions to the Minister , but I gave him advance notice and I hope that he will answer most of them . |
| 5 | A tinker accosted me in the bar , asking for a glass of brandy , but I gave him short shrift . |
| 6 | This was all very necessary , but I found it dull stuff indeed after the immediacy of Ultra . |
| 7 | Yeah but she had them last night ! |
| 8 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 9 | By some miracle she had hung on to her job with the Caring Chauvinist , but she found it exhausting coping with that , and running the house , and looking after Perdita , and more and more after Violet and Eddie . |
| 10 | But we had them this morning . |
| 11 | I was gon na say have you had a nice Christmas but we saw you last week ! |
| 12 | ‘ Marseille lead the group and remain the favourites to go through , but we gave them two goals of a start at Ibrox and still drew with the French on a night when injury prevented us from having Ally McCoist . ’ |
| 13 | But they stopped them last year did n't they ? |
| 14 | John did not want to see a doctor , but they overrode him this morning and had the quack in . |
| 15 | His face was moving a little , twitching by one eye , but he saw them this time . |
| 16 | But he made it clear Britain would fight its corner . |
| 17 | Maybe it was obvious to most people but he gave me recharged confidence in the project . |
| 18 | He rarely heard from his mother , but he rang her each Christmas morning , wherever he was , and on her birthday , and he sent her maybe a dozen postcards a year . |
| 19 | Cayard was recalled instantly by the committee but it took them 40 seconds to hoist the French recall signal , by which time they were well up the track . |
| 20 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 21 | We 're talking about half an ounce , which does n't exactly sound like a weight problem , but it took me another day or so to take it off her . |
| 22 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 23 | I did n't know what had been the last meal eaten before leaving South America but it took me twenty minutes to coathanger my way through it , and consequently I had missed breakfast . |
| 24 | But it took her some moments to understand exactly what he was saying , her senses reeling at the warmth of the hard naked chest pressed so closely to her soft breasts , her nostrils savouring the erotic , musky scent of his skin . |
| 25 | These have now been cleaned up , but it took us some time to cope with this disgraceful state of affairs … the condition of these children , and the behaviour of many of the mothers , has completely dissipated the goodwill and welcome accorded to them by the Welsh people , whose hospitality is proverbial . |
| 26 | But it hit me one day , he did n't care or he would have made that effort to come and see me and he did n't . |
| 27 | It was only a momentary lapse on his part , but it gave her enough time to whirl round on him , her eyes widening as she spotted a revolver in his hand . |
| 28 | Mind you , it was partly her fault ; they could afford to live without her factory work , but it gave her some company and a feeling of contributing to society . |
| 29 | But it gave her another flare of confidence , this elusive and somehow warming reminder of her childhood . |
| 30 | Through that , Red Rhino came up with a matching deal which was not very high in terms of money or anything but it gave them some status , certainly with promotion . |