Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Whether the ground actually became firmer or whether I was spurred on by fear I do not know , but I began to make better progress .
2 I did n't do so , but I did make another suggestion .
3 But you chose to make some rules .
4 But she had made huge progress , Lisa congratulated herself as she got ready to pack up at the end of another exhausting day .
5 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 .
6 But she did make one request .
7 He wanted to leave now too , but he had to make some kind of contact with the dead man first .
8 The more of these properties a dummy possessed the more strongly it was mobbed , but it seemed to make little difference whether the object was a stuffed owl with real plumage or an owl-shaped piece of painted wood .
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