Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I learnt to respect other religions . " |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | My billetors were kind , but I had to spend considerable time in their sitting-room , and I felt this was an invasion of privacy for both of us . |
| 4 | ‘ I certainly have n't invited him , but I had to give Slender Billy a score of tickets , so who knows who he might bring ? ’ |
| 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 | My predecessor had read law and obtained a first , but I chose to read social anthropology simply because of a pleasure in the subject . |
| 7 | But I did see black guillemots swimming down in the bay , and a gully full of boulders where they probably nest . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But she had made huge progress , Lisa congratulated herself as she got ready to pack up at the end of another exhausting day . |
| 10 | But she had recognized faint glimmerings of fanaticism in his recent actions . |
| 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 | Two months later her gall bladder had been removed , but she continued to experience abdominal discomfort . |
| 13 | A teaching job added to her duties but she began to write short stories . |
| 14 | ’ That neither did she , but she did expect common civility . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was next door to the Infants School but we had heard terrifying stories about life there . |
| 17 | We did not exactly quarrel , but we started unloading pent-up resentments and frustrations . |
| 18 | In summary , Mr Chairman , the overall mortality rate for disease , for T U R P , over the northern region was point three percent and this compares very well with the large published theories from America but we did find large inter-site variations for both mortality and major morbidity rates . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Pauline was a few years older than Chris , who was 31 , but they had found mutual support and love , and together created the opportunity to live on their own . |
| 21 | And they 'd got some funny things but they 'd got foreign names and I thought well |
| 22 | The fee for performing at Yeovilton was not high but they did offer free fuel . |
| 23 | v. Ratcliffe the plaintiffs refused to admit coloured persons to their ballroom but they did allow coloured musicians to play in the orchestra . |
| 24 | Moreover , the vast majority of the peasantry were already semi-socialist : they were not yet persuaded of the need for collective farming , but they did reject private landownership and depended upon the labour of their own hands . |
| 25 | Differences in wealth were not easily transmuted into self-conscious social distinctions , but they did require certain forms of expenditure . |
| 26 | The great industrial changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did not alter the traditional family structure of previous generations , but they did provide economic opportunities for earlier marriages and thus for more children . |
| 27 | This led some people to maintain that he had derived the idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau , a fact which Gandhi himself denied.a In due course he substituted the phrase ‘ civil resistance ’ for ‘ civil disobedience ’ on the grounds that it conveyed the notion of non-violence better , but he continued to regard civil disobedience as a branch of satyāgraha . |
| 28 | He should have finished at university long ago , but he kept taking extra courses , changing subjects and things . |
| 29 | From what I 've seen of Bardsley , he reminds me a bit of Sterland — he looks very good going forward but he seemed to leave gaping holes at the back when he played for England ( ca n't remember who it was against ) . |
| 30 | The Brownies did n't know it , but he had asked Brown Owl to marry him . |