Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I learnt to respect other religions . " |
| 2 | I enjoyed the congratulations and little bit of adulation , but I managed to keep some words of my father 's in my mind . |
| 3 | I know it 's something a Samaritan would consider unprofessional , but I enjoyed getting verbal queerbashers to hang up on me because they could n't handle what I was telling them . |
| 4 | Peter Little won the race and Andy Pitts came second , but I had beaten three others who had originally been selected ahead of me , including Cameron Sharp , who the following year was to have a great outdoor season . |
| 5 | ‘ He was a big man , but I had studied martial arts and felt confident that I could get away if he made the wrong move . |
| 6 | But I did see black guillemots swimming down in the bay , and a gully full of boulders where they probably nest . ’ |
| 7 | I had tried it before and put on more weight due to not re-educating my eating habits , but I needed to see immediate results to get the enthusiasm to continue dieting . |
| 8 | But you chose to make some rules . |
| 9 | But she had recognized faint glimmerings of fanaticism in his recent actions . |
| 10 | But she had spent many years perfecting the art of the memo . |
| 11 | The tenants ' rent books had been correctly marked up by her , but she had put different figures into the ledger and cash book . |
| 12 | Her eyepatch apart , she bore no obvious scars , but she had fought many battles , vanquished many foes . |
| 13 | The leather baggage and glass cosmetic pots of the day were too heavy to take on the plane but she managed to find lighter substitutes and so became a pioneer of lightweight luggage , as well as a pioneer female passenger . |
| 14 | Isabelle might have left her the case , but she 'd hidden these things away , making sure they would n't be discovered at least while her husband was alive . |
| 15 | A teaching job added to her duties but she began to write short stories . |
| 16 | But she did make two purchases from the hat and the dress departments with the money which J. D. O'Conner had given her for the two articles which she had written for him . |
| 17 | Katherine liked to believe that she was n't vindictive , but she did have certain rules , certain standards , both for her house and her business , and one of the reasons she had been so successful both in Dublin and now in London , was because she applied those rules rigorously . |
| 18 | It sounded okay but we kept getting these fumes . |
| 19 | It was next door to the Infants School but we had heard terrifying stories about life there . |
| 20 | Me : But we had to buy two books of Metro tickets . |
| 21 | We did not exactly quarrel , but we started unloading pent-up resentments and frustrations . |
| 22 | Er and not many fresh eggs but we did get dried eggs which were , were , it was n't a bad substitute but it was n't the same as a fresh egg but you could scramble them and you could use them for cooking but then you see there was very little fat . |
| 23 | But they had lost ten yards in the manoeuvre , and the Zodiac was almost back into the surf . |
| 24 | These doors were now firmly closed , but they had opened several times since Zen 's arrival , admitting a succession of visitors who had forced their way through the mass of bodies and expectant faces in the corridor outside , sweltering under television lights and waving microphones in front of anyone who appeared . |
| 25 | We had booked up for the ordinary ship and , and rail you know , to go over by ship and rail but er during the months awaiting the , I think we were going in July and er we had booked up maybe about April , but they had put these planes on and Polytechnic wrote to us and said , if we paid two pounds ten extra , we could go by air and we did it and the full tour for a week in Paris , going by air , was twelve pounds ten . |
| 26 | The baby was put through extensive tests during a 10-day stay but they failed to find any signs of the fits complained of . |
| 27 | But they chose to implement these cuts by destroying the primary health care programme while devoting almost 90 per cent of the health budget to just one high-tech teaching hospital in the capital . |
| 28 | And they 'd got some funny things but they 'd got foreign names and I thought well |
| 29 | v. Ratcliffe the plaintiffs refused to admit coloured persons to their ballroom but they did allow coloured musicians to play in the orchestra . |
| 30 | Differences in wealth were not easily transmuted into self-conscious social distinctions , but they did require certain forms of expenditure . |