Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A tinker accosted me in the bar , asking for a glass of brandy , but I gave him short shrift . |
| 3 | This was all very necessary , but I found it dull stuff indeed after the immediacy of Ultra . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But he made it clear Britain would fight its corner . |
| 6 | Maybe it was obvious to most people but he gave me recharged confidence in the project . |
| 7 | True that the railway did not invent much of this beauty , but it gave us new vistas of it . |