Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't read , but I took it to the priest and he read it to me . ’ |
| 2 | They did n't want him , but I persuaded them in the end . |
| 3 | ‘ I read about it at the time , but I heard none of the details . |
| 4 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 5 | ‘ I have a full staff here but I released them for the fiesta in Palma . |
| 6 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 7 | But I left you on the couch . |
| 8 | I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time . |
| 9 | But I knocked you to the floor , and the blow was so hard that it made my hand throb for hours afterwards . |
| 10 | I stepped closer and the young woman rose and made to flee but I seized her by the wrist . |
| 11 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 12 | My superior self had taken over-call it the result of time-shock , if you will , but I felt myself in the presence of myth and , by association , accepted myself as mythical ! |
| 13 | But I told him about the telly that it 's a bit beyond redemption . |
| 14 | But I told you on the phone did n't I , it rained and |
| 15 | Welford said : ‘ He grabbed me by the lapels and cuffed me across the face , but I shielded myself from the rest of his blows . ’ |
| 16 | I went to punch him but I caught him with the crowbar instead . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ New-fangled ’ ideas , the farmer said , but I convinced him in the end . |
| 18 | This repeated general principles well known to a ( l good teachers , but I wanted them in the Report so there could be no doubt about the kind of teaching we admired . |
| 19 | But I did it through the love , fo , that I had for the couple , and that because they had waited sixteen year before they eventually found out they could n't have children ! |
| 20 | He said it 's my fault ; but I did it for the best . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Go on — it will cheer you up ’ but I dismissed him like the rest , saying I was not thirsty , despising the thought of drinking from the same grimy bottle which a rogue had . |
| 22 | ‘ Sorry , Mrs Scamp , but I found 'em on the floor in the back of the cab . ’ |
| 23 | Once you had served a few years , you might come to detest the job , but you committed yourself to the future . |
| 24 | But you touched me on the cheek . |
| 25 | Sorry about the mess but you caught me on the hop like . |
| 26 | but she got it in the greens |
| 27 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |
| 28 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 29 | In. , Finally , the boy tried to squirm past her like a silverfish but she had him by the hair and was breaking the rifle over his head and shoulders when my father stopped her . |
| 30 | This was n't so easy , but she managed it in the end . |