Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I made it perfectly clear — or at least I thought I did , ’ Blufton added , spreading his palms in a gesture of openness , ‘ that I was n't actually offering her the job . |
| 2 | ‘ But I made it absolutely clear how frail you were … that it was imperative that she come here … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But I made it quite clear that I was n't prepared to share a bedroom with you ! ’ she retorted angrily . |
| 4 | But I enjoyed it so much , I thought we should get something going . ’ |
| 5 | Berghaus 's Softflex midsole gives very easy walking , but I thought it too flexible for use on rough ground ; nor did it have quite enough ankle support . |
| 6 | But I used it as little as I could , though if the wind stayed in the south-west I thought I 'd probably have to use it for the later part of today 's outing . |
| 7 | But I called him up one day and asked him how he was doing and he said things were pretty good , so I asked if he still wanted to do that album . |
| 8 | The Grainger Park middleweight lost on a unanimous points decision to Manchester 's Eric Noi , finalist last season , and admitted afterwards : ‘ My timing was way off , but I showed him too much respect . |
| 9 | But I found them thoroughly disgraceful , all the same : aesthetically , they worked on me like violence . |
| 10 | ‘ They 're only home-made , but I found them very useful to practise with . ’ |
| 11 | They gave me room in their carriage , but I found them very cold and strange . |
| 12 | Many sunbirds were flitting around , but I found them almost impossible to . |
| 13 | ( I watched the videos once , because they were rated x , but I found them terribly dull , and the leading man looked like my girlfriend 's father . |
| 14 | But I found him very stimulating to be with , full of ideas , I needed to meet such people . |
| 15 | I joined a flower arranging society thinking ‘ Well I quite like flowers and it 's a good way to meet people ’ , but I found it so boring that I left after three months . |
| 16 | It 's zany , it 's irreverent and it 's brimful of right-on attitudes , but I found it virtually impossible to raise a smile , never mind a laugh . |
| 17 | But I found it too embarrassing to keep suggesting to a fellow professional that he should take time off from his own work to accompany me to functions where he was not able to join me at the dinner table when he got there . |
| 18 | It was an unusual job but I found it quite interesting . ’ |
| 19 | It was an unusual job but I found it quite interesting . |
| 20 | But I found it really helpful to have known you both because you were in both groups and involved in the Union and the EOP Working Party . |
| 21 | In 1976 he was found to be suffering from a spinal disease which was unrelated to the accident but which rendered him totally unfit for work . |
| 22 | ‘ But you made it perfectly clear that you disapproved of shipboard romances . |
| 23 | But she made him less formidable . |
| 24 | But she made it immediately clear that she regarded the two policemen as being of a social order little higher than the servants . |
| 25 | She wanted to stop him , but she found him totally irresistible . |
| 26 | Before they parted it seemed to Sophia that he was trying to draw Ianthe aside , as if to make an assignation with her , but she gave him so little encouragement , indeed seemed almost to avoid him , that he had to be content with looking forward to the doubtful pleasure of meeting the whole party the next evening after dinner at the Trevi fountain . |
| 27 | No , but we had it off last time . |
| 28 | But we did it really good ! |
| 29 | We took our front door keys with us but we threw them away some years ago . |
| 30 | But they made us so welcome , the tourists , you know they were fantastic . |