Example sentences of "but i [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So my skin began to look better , my guts were giving a great , big heartfelt vote of thanks , but I went on losing weight that it seemed to me I could ill afford to lose . |
| 2 | But I had meanwhile had time to think . |
| 3 | He could be right too , but I 'd never laid eyes on her . |
| 4 | I thought — it was silly I know , but I thought perhaps seeing Aubrey had reminded you of Madeleine and that it was going to be as awful as it was when you came back from England after that holiday . |
| 5 | I woke early , and when I looked out of the window , I saw two men examining our boat , but I decided not to wake Herbert or Startop , who needed their rest after rowing all the previous day . |
| 6 | ‘ When I was his age I said contentious things like he did last week , but I did not speak English very well so I did not get into trouble . ’ |
| 7 | I mostly enjoyed art and maths but I did not like P.E . |
| 8 | But I did not have time to talk to them all day ; I had my work to do . |
| 9 | ‘ But I did n't want Eleanor , ’ he reminded her , his dark eyes beginning to glow . |
| 10 | Well no , I knew it was a lark , but I did n't want Romeo to go . |
| 11 | I heard him cry immediately and the doctor say it 's a boy , but I did n't feel part of it . |
| 12 | But I did n't think Billy knew them . |
| 13 | ‘ I know but I did n't have time . ’ |
| 14 | Now , she had senile dementia , now the hospital helped a lot in the caring , but I did n't have time , or the energy , ha , frankly |
| 15 | Sorry not to produce steak , but I did n't have time . |
| 16 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 17 | I 'm not the kind of fellow that 's going to creep to anybody , but I did n't cause aggravation unless I had to . |
| 18 | I 'll boil one , but I did n't know Arthur wanted a salad , cos he reckons he does n't like |
| 19 | And when we think about it , Edgeware Road , number seven , it is pretty early on , I ought to have realized , but I did n't know London well enough then . |
| 20 | I knew that some of his friends were into drugs , but I did n't know Ryan was until he collapsed on me one day . |
| 21 | I knew he could punch but I did n't know Razor could go down as quickly as that . ’ |
| 22 | But I did n't offend people . |
| 23 | ‘ I had the building searched , but I did n't find Elvis . ’ |
| 24 | But I wondered how to arrange things so that Émile Chaillot told him . |