Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I took some better ones . |
| 2 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've made your point , but I heard all these objections at the veterinary congress . |
| 4 | But I had one further arrow to my bow . |
| 5 | But I had many other interests which kept me fully occupied at the time . |
| 6 | Most people think that pigs are dirty and ignorant , but I had many happy times with them . |
| 7 | Most people think that pigs are dirty and ignorant , but I had many happy times with them . |
| 8 | And er I I do n't know where they 've gone now but I had some lovely photographs of these flats . |
| 9 | But I had this lifelong problem , you see . ’ |
| 10 | But I 'd half-learned several languages on my travels , and somehow they each floated familiarly back at the first step on to the matching soil . |
| 11 | But I suffered all next day . |
| 12 | Bellamy was aw-gosh polite to Susan , but I got some unnecessary shoving . |
| 13 | It obviously showed , but I wore big baggy clothes . |
| 14 | In literature I was going to offer both British and American authors , both prose and poetry , so that was no problem , though it did mean that I should have to read authors I disliked — Conrad , Hemingway , Woolf , Graham Greene , C.P. Snow — but I leavened this stodgy bunch with those I felt more in sympathy with , though they were not officially on the syllabus — Waugh , Firbank and Forster at their head . |
| 15 | By this stage the circular shape was building well , but I needed some smaller flowers to fill out the edges of the wreath , so used some Anemone japonica to balance the dark reds . |
| 16 | But I bought some beautiful crimson bias binding from Laura Ashley do n't laugh but I 'm taking the valance of Paul 's bed |
| 17 | But I found three thousand dollars . |
| 18 | ‘ But you said that last month . ’ |
| 19 | She may have written some very promising poetry , but she had little personal support for her writing while she was at Edgcote . |
| 20 | But she had long red hair and she was just a work friend . |
| 21 | The old lady was not rich , but she had five hundred pounds , and Linkworth knew this . |
| 22 | ‘ Hurry , ’ he urged , checking behind him for witnesses , but she had one more question . |
| 23 | But she had some daft ideas about this place . |
| 24 | and er , it was thirty six pound , but she knocked another three pound off cos there was a little mark on the front which just sponged off as soon as I got home . |
| 25 | But she shared one crucial thing with the whole of that community , friends and enemies : awareness that the struggle was not just a Scottish matter , but something fought out on the international stage . |
| 26 | The old girl is alive and well with my sister at Wetherby , but she proved barren this year . |
| 27 | But she bought all these things for me from Marks and Spencers , you know breaded chicken and |
| 28 | David tried to see her to persuade her to change her mind , but she refused any further contact with him . |
| 29 | We ordered them while on holiday there last Summer : an enforced break from the building — but we managed some fabulous flying in the sun whilst we were away . |
| 30 | We got a positive answer , but we got this funny bar . |