Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided I must go up to Addis Ababa and try to get permission to start again , but I had little hope of succeeding . |
| 2 | But I had three glasses of sherry quickly . |
| 3 | After what he 'd said she did n't dare turn the key in the lock , but she made short work of undressing . |
| 4 | But she made light work of polishing off the shopping at a supermarket near her West London home . |
| 5 | ‘ Not , ’ he went on hastily , ‘ that I liken my wife to Mr Landor nor to a wild animal , but she had similar need of kindness and nursing expertise . ’ |
| 6 | The thought did not daunt her , but she had great need of a moment of silence , to take breath and consider how much she dared tell . |
| 7 | Probably she was , but she knew this side of the company belonged to her husband and any involvement on her part would seem to him an interference . |
| 8 | But she took little heed of her surroundings ; all her attention was focused on the man himself . |
| 9 | They drank wine , consulted the menu , ordered , but she took little notice of what she was eating , trying to calm the turmoil within her . |
| 10 | But we asked another question of the core audience to Radio 4 during the Gulf War coverage . |
| 11 | But we had various versions of M1 , but we did n't ever get rid of the first version , so we could , the one that Suzannah did and then the one that I changed , and then the one that the Committee changed , all exist so that we can back track what we actually did . |
| 12 | But we saw two slices of great skill for his goals . ’ |
| 13 | One common local belief about Belfast English is that upper-middle-class people tend to front-raise /a/ ( as in bat ) towards the conservative RP value : [ ae ] ( but we found little sign of this in any part of our research ) . |
| 14 | ‘ It has been a closed shop for years but we conducted extensive lobbying of other clubs this time . |
| 15 | But they had all sorts of virtually now do n't they ? |
| 16 | People from other lineages might not know of these particular marriages , but they had similar marriages of their own , similar reminders in their own genealogies that they had made a special and enduring peace with other lineages . |
| 17 | With erm and they had sand , they all had sandbags along there , but they had these sort of er walls built up . |
| 18 | The rigs were all dry of course , but they carried huge stocks of other duty free goods , mainly tobacco and cigarettes . |
| 19 | The man below could not have seen the movement , but he felt some shifting of the air above him , or heard , perhaps , if he had a wild beast 's hearing as he had its gait , the mere rustle of a sleeve against the stone . |
| 20 | The Marquis de Chamlay , his most important military adviser in his later years , had the title of Maréchal-Général des Logis ; but he had little experience of active service and was often employed on non-military tasks . |
| 21 | But he had little confidence of backing from a UK government which seemed to have no idea about the fishing industry . |
| 22 | But he had additional sources of wealth and troops . |
| 23 | He contemplated eating a meat pie at the stall by the church , but he had enough experience of phantom hunger at night to know that it would disappear of its own accord by morning and that it was best not to squander money on appeasing it . |
| 24 | In classifying them he followed Aristotle in considering as many characters as possible ; but he made great use of the ‘ principle of correlation ’ , the way in which all the parts of an animal work together . |
| 25 | McKoy , having already been called back for one false start , would have been disqualified for a second offence — but he took full advantage of his head-start to pip Jackson for the gold . |
| 26 | Well I believe , I 'm not certain on that , it was in Street I think it was and er she also worked for Joseph in Street too , when she when she went , went out to work she was working for Joseph stitching for him too , but he became later Mayor of Walsall and I believe he was Liberal MP for it Pat the Liberal MP was n't it ? |
| 27 | In the earlier part of his career Beecham was a strong supporter of contemporary British composers , but he left few recordings of their music , except in the case of Delius , of course . |
| 28 | But he remained general manager of the Southern Region , almost as it were being his own superior . |
| 29 | On Friday , though , Alesi had been the top man as he claimed the overnight pole , but he lost any chance of keeping it with a wall-bashing incident , which came as no surprise to anyone who had watched his outrageously extrovert efforts . |
| 30 | He bought a new radio for her though she said she did n't need it , but he wanted some evidence of what he was achieving , something in the flat that proved he was doing all right . |