Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 2 | Good try — but you got it the wrong way round ! |
| 3 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 4 | Er so I 'm gon na have them but she showed me the small room , what they call the small room , well that was huge well it will be perfect for what we want . |
| 5 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 6 | In 1686 he became a London alderman , sitting for Broad Street ; but he discharged himself the following year , probably in anticipation of the purging of Anglicans from the bench . |
| 7 | Quite unwittingly you played right into my hands that night , Aurora — I knew you had n't been taking drugs , but it gave me the perfect excuse for sticking around . |