Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er but I mean basically at the end of the day , I mean you have to think about to what extent you can increase your sales . |
| 2 | I was not Boat Race standard , but I got by at the level of intercollege competition . |
| 3 | The other soldiers had wives and families to go to , but I felt slightly at a loss away from the TA . |
| 4 | At that moment Lesley-Jane saw your face — she told me you ‘ looked over your shoulder at her ’ but I did n't at the time realise that meant you must have been facing away from the stage . |
| 5 | She should have avoided the Glass House , but she went there at every opportunity , and stood beside the streaming panes with her eyes closed , willing herself to capture something . |
| 6 | He insisted on walking her home but she ran off at the corner . |
| 7 | Her voice was judicial , but she quailed inwardly at the flare of anger that lit the blue eyes . |
| 8 | But she pushed rather at the pinkish translucent cubelets which surrounded the fish , then turned to me and asked , |
| 9 | You may say we 've robbed Peter to pay Paul , and there 's some truth in that , but we have n't at the end of the day gone further than that . |
| 10 | She opened the door thankfully , ready with polite expressions of welcome , but they died away at the sight of the tear-stained , pale faces before her . |
| 11 | He and Sergeant Robins had obviously tried each other 's patience to the limits , but he cheered up at the sight of Dalgliesh and enquired with childish belligerence : |
| 12 | He could n't see you if you were standing right in front of him , but he carried on at the anvil and used to feel the iron he was working . ’ |
| 13 | I walked up to the little animal but he took off at a speed which made light of his infirmity . |
| 14 | ‘ He was in Singapore last week , but he came back at the weekend , I know , ’ she observed innocently , hating herself for needing to know so badly . |
| 15 | But he gripped hard at the arms of his chair and forced himself to attend . |
| 16 | ‘ But he comes out at the right time and he stays on his line at the right time . |
| 17 | Tailoring the extent of regulation to the particular circumstances aims to give protection where it is necessary without interfering with the efficient operation of the market where it is not , but it does so at the expense of adding to the complexity of the regulations |
| 18 | It was bliss to feel some of the tension ease out of her , but it returned abruptly at the sharp sound of a breaking twig . |
| 19 | Something in his demeanour made a tremulous question form in Katherine 's mind , but it fluttered away at the distinctive sound of Violette 's infectious laugh . |
| 20 | But it appeared otherwise at the time . |