Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I took some better ones . |
| 2 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've made your point , but I heard all these objections at the veterinary congress . |
| 4 | But I had many other interests which kept me fully occupied at the time . |
| 5 | Most people think that pigs are dirty and ignorant , but I had many happy times with them . |
| 6 | Most people think that pigs are dirty and ignorant , but I had many happy times with them . |
| 7 | And er I I do n't know where they 've gone now but I had some lovely photographs of these flats . |
| 8 | But I had this lifelong problem , you see . ’ |
| 9 | But I suffered all next day . |
| 10 | Bellamy was aw-gosh polite to Susan , but I got some unnecessary shoving . |
| 11 | In literature I was going to offer both British and American authors , both prose and poetry , so that was no problem , though it did mean that I should have to read authors I disliked — Conrad , Hemingway , Woolf , Graham Greene , C.P. Snow — but I leavened this stodgy bunch with those I felt more in sympathy with , though they were not officially on the syllabus — Waugh , Firbank and Forster at their head . |
| 12 | By this stage the circular shape was building well , but I needed some smaller flowers to fill out the edges of the wreath , so used some Anemone japonica to balance the dark reds . |
| 13 | But I bought some beautiful crimson bias binding from Laura Ashley do n't laugh but I 'm taking the valance of Paul 's bed |
| 14 | ‘ But you said that last month . ’ |
| 15 | She may have written some very promising poetry , but she had little personal support for her writing while she was at Edgcote . |
| 16 | But she had some daft ideas about this place . |
| 17 | and er , it was thirty six pound , but she knocked another three pound off cos there was a little mark on the front which just sponged off as soon as I got home . |
| 18 | But she bought all these things for me from Marks and Spencers , you know breaded chicken and |
| 19 | David tried to see her to persuade her to change her mind , but she refused any further contact with him . |
| 20 | We ordered them while on holiday there last Summer : an enforced break from the building — but we managed some fabulous flying in the sun whilst we were away . |
| 21 | We got a positive answer , but we got this funny bar . |
| 22 | do n't know , but we had this bright orange carpet , mind you even we could n't live with that for too long . |
| 23 | But we had some fantastic concerts , we had a stage at the end of the assembly hall , and they used to put on this erm concert for us , singing , dancing and the piano , I remember that very well , the piano . |
| 24 | But , the men did n't play you rough or anything but we had some good games ! |
| 25 | ‘ The last thing we wanted to do was move , ’ explains John , ‘ But we needed some extra cash to build an extension for our growing family . |
| 26 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
| 27 | But they took some wicked pleasure in his fame as the most extraordinary vocal artiste in the whole Synod of Dunkeld . |
| 28 | Friday but they 're not making a promise , but they said that last week |
| 29 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 30 | She 's fond of him still , in her way , but they quarrelled all those years ago and it 's too late to mend it . |