Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also appealed to the Government to respond to an extraordinary press conference given by the Iranian chargé d'affaires in London on the anniversary of Terry Waite 's imprisonment a few weeks ago , but no-one took much notice of that , either . |
| 2 | We sparkled with energy , but I struck few sparks . |
| 3 | The arrival of Deacon Billingsley should have given me the satisfaction that my telephone call had been treated seriously , but I sensed this policeman was not going to offer me any satisfaction at all . |
| 4 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 5 | it 's still a but it 's a different camp , but I wrote this time because what he tells us I forget , I do n't know if you 'll be able to read it or not so |
| 6 | I remember seeing , but I heard fucking result on News at Ten . |
| 7 | But I received another note from Mellowes ; it said I was not to leave the office ; I was not to answer the phone ; above all I was not to speak to the press . |
| 8 | But I saw that time was much more like the growth of Mary 's reputation , devious and ambiguous , than it was like the straight line , moving remorselessly forward , which Western thought has forced it to prefigure . |
| 9 | PC Kelly went on : ‘ I did not hear anything but I saw two flashes from the barrel of the gun and I presumed he had shot Goodman twice . ’ |
| 10 | On that , I think it is generally known , that we , that Telford was n't anywhere near the top of the list , and it had been taken purely on the question of the er , needs of the various areas , it 's unlikely that Telford would have succeeded , even with its reduced geographical area , but I made discrete enquiries and was told that the factor which tipped er , the Commission in favour of Telford , and this has an important bearing on what we 're going to discuss later , was the fact that Telford has been very good in taking up schemes and providing their section , and not just the Wreakin District Council , other area , other bodies in Telford , of getting good innovative schemes off the ground and providing the cash , they did n't , as some areas did , get the status , and then hardly do anything about it . |
| 11 | Could n't really tell you what it was now , but I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 12 | And your totems have the same names as my masks , but I made those names up ! |
| 13 | ‘ Everyone says how awful the teenage years are , and we had our share of rows and problems , but I enjoyed those years with my children — far better than the baby or toddler stages . ’ |
| 14 | but I had that ages ago in one of my |
| 15 | But I had two brothers . |
| 16 | I decided I must go up to Addis Ababa and try to get permission to start again , but I had little hope of succeeding . |
| 17 | I did it willingly because I still loved his company so much , but I had little money . |
| 18 | I can not claim to have been a close friend , but I had occasional encounters with him and , as with most people , it would be more accurate to describe them as occasional brushes . |
| 19 | A doctor said it was an infested splinter , but I had stabbing pains there — and then , at night , as I lay in bed unable to get to sleep because of the pain , I could hear a munching sound . |
| 20 | Everybody wanted that , but I had some contacts , I knew I could get in there . |
| 21 | But I had some pain passing water today . ’ |
| 22 | Herman asked me to tell them all about Greece — but I had more sense than to do so . |
| 23 | I could have jumped up and battered his foot if I 'd wanted to , but I had more respect than that ! ’ |
| 24 | But I had three glasses of sherry quickly . |
| 25 | I know I mean I stayed with him but I had three kids . |
| 26 | But I had considerable difficulty in tracking any down . |
| 27 | But I had this polyneuritis coming on and I gr gradually went paralysed . |
| 28 | It had never been done before , but I had this premonition , and of course it proved true . ’ |
| 29 | But I had this instinct that you 'd have a better chance if you first spent some time with me — ’ |
| 30 | But I experienced other disappointments , too , in Schreier 's account of what C.P.E. Bach described as his father 's ‘ great Catholic Mass ’ . |