Example sentences of "but [subord] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But if Fabia comes with me we could travel by car , take the ferry across to Belgium and belt through Germany and … ’ |
| 2 | Now I ca n't see why it does n't make sense , but if Jim came to me and said , look Hugh , that 's bloody silly . |
| 3 | But when Clift confided in her about his homosexual tendencies , she referred him to a colleague whom she felt could help him infinitely more than she could . |
| 4 | When Mr Palmer arrived I did n't tell him I was caddying for Gary , and I do n't know whether he 'd forgotten or what , but when Gary says to me , ‘ OK , Tip , let's go , ’ Arnold looks at me and says , ‘ What are you doing , Tip ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But when Simon appeared at your hotel you must have talked about us , you told him what had happened in Sintra . ’ |
| 6 | His voice seemed loaded with meaning but when Marcus looked at him he was scanning the board . |
| 7 | He was off slowly enough , down the slope , but when Hazel stamped for him to stop he did so at once . |
| 8 | But when Uccello died in his eighties , ‘ He left a daughter who could design , and a wife who used to say that Paolo would remain the night long in his study to work out the lines of his perspective , and that when she called him to come to rest , he replied , ‘ Oh what a sweet thing this perspective is ! ’ |
| 9 | She pushed herself back against the wall to avoid touching a man but as Owen pressed past her he was as conscious of her roundnesses and softnesses as if he had been in bed beside her . |
| 10 | But as Luke joined with her and experienced the first brief resistance of her untutored flesh she felt the shock run through him . |
| 11 | Mars your ruling planet normally endows you with drive , but as Saturn grows nearer your energy level will decrease now how about that ? |