Example sentences of "but [pron] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robin and Jenny were the ones who had adventures , fell walking or sailing on the lake , always coming home with hair-raising stories ; but nothing ever happened to Ruth . |
| 2 | And she called me later , and said , ‘ Excuse me , but I just talked to Fred and I told him the story , and he 's invited you to tea tomorrow at his house . ’ |
| 3 | Well , having had to avail ourselves of the help of the officer who got rid of our gigantic wasp nest , I should like to say what a superb job they do , but I just wondered in view of the tremendous number , whether there is some kind of way of preventions . |
| 4 | But in latter days they came with a tank and they put it out and put it in a trailer you see but I just worked with bags when it was the first of it . |
| 5 | I 'm a governor at present er working in prison service headquarters in Edinburgh , but I previously worked in Pentonville , erm I think it depends on what you mean by do by prisons do a good job , I think that 's a terribly vague and wide ranging question |
| 6 | I picked up my knife and attempted to copy the old lady but I soon got into difficulty . |
| 7 | I thought I 'd exhausted every possibility , rivals of every pedigree from the Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies to a rough-trade gamekeeper out at Shotover , but I never thought of family . |
| 8 | Yes , I was aware of him , but I never managed to lassoo him . |
| 9 | Well er School , but I never went to school not un , at five . |
| 10 | It seems strange now , but I never complained to classmates or teachers . |
| 11 | no , no , my Lord I have three applications to make in the light of the evidence given by Mr yesterday and this witness today , er the first is this in terms of this witnesses evidence , I do n't know whether your Lordship appreciated it , but I certainly did in terms of evidence , that in cases of some brochures there were a number of editions , in other words first , second and maybe third edition |
| 12 | It therefore became necessary to adopt a luni-solar calendar in which the months were measured by the phases of the moon but which also kept in step with the sun . |
| 13 | May 1986 The Centro de Arte Reina Sofía opens in the former General Hospital of Madrid and Atocha , a Neo-classical building designed by the Italian architect Francesco Sabatini to be even larger than the Escorial , but which never grew beyond pavilions surrounding a large courtyard . |
| 14 | The nearest thing I had seen to this were monsoon drains in Malaya : deep , concrete channels meant to take away storm water , but which usually lay like mantraps , just under the flood surface . |
| 15 | No , last week you probably would have got the little joining letter with map , but you probably talked to people in the branch who may have been there , or you talked to your manager , or you picked up the phone and said , how do I get here , you may have even got the map out if you were driving , to actually see what junction you came off the motorways and things like that . |
| 16 | ‘ But you never got in touch with me after I left … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But you still got off cocaine ? |
| 18 | She did n't mean to , but she finally came to terms with the lateness of the hour with a yawn ; it was already happening before she could stop it . |
| 19 | ‘ Ca n't or wo n't ? ’ he queried grimly , but she just shrugged in defeat . |
| 20 | I really had thought she would go berserk , but she just trembled from head to toe , and was only calmed slightly by the sound of my voice . |
| 21 | But she never lied to Star . " |
| 22 | Mikaela von Koskull , who had originally been selected to sail on Martela OF but who eventually sailed with Maiden , will lead a group that includes Dawn Riley , Claire Russel , Jeni Munday and Nancy Hill . |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe what upset Dustin was that he knew that , although he was the better actor , Steve 's performance in Papillon was superior , ’ commented Norman Jewison , who had directed McQueen in The Cincinnati Kid and The Thomas Crown Affair , but who never worked with Dustin . |
| 24 | And chief amongst these was Joseph Hyde , an ardent Nationalist who had actually known his father and mother in Dublin , but who now worked in Webbs , one of the bookshops on the Charing Cross Road . |
| 25 | That ai n't , that ai n't basically it , you do n't wan na do it , that is the main thing , I mean you never been one for wanting to go , I mean even when we lived in Jersey and you ai n't got any idea how small Jersey is , Val and John used to come to us , but we never went to Val and John 's , it 's hell all mighty getting him out , if I do n't go on me own , I do n't go . |
| 26 | But we only looked in B & Q for that did n't we ? |
| 27 | But we actually talked about things at an appropriate level . |
| 28 | But they immediately ran into criticism from the NRPB about how thorough the survey should be . |
| 29 | The fledgling Twist were a lot more lightweight and bubblegum in style , recruiting Martin Fry 's brother , Jamie , on vocals but they eventually returned to Manchester where they dawdled around in their own faffing style and managed to emerge after all the Mancs fuss was over . |
| 30 | The fledgling Twist were a lot more lightweight and bubblegum in style , recruiting Martin Fry 's brother , Jamie , on vocals but they eventually returned to Manchester where they dawdled around in their own faffing style and managed to emerge after all the Mancs fuss was over . |