Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | I remember seeing , but I heard fucking result on News at Ten . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I decided I must go up to Addis Ababa and try to get permission to start again , but I had little hope of succeeding . |
| 8 | I did it willingly because I still loved his company so much , but I had little money . |
| 9 | But I had some pain passing water today . ’ |
| 10 | Herman asked me to tell them all about Greece — but I had more sense than to do so . |
| 11 | I could have jumped up and battered his foot if I 'd wanted to , but I had more respect than that ! ’ |
| 12 | But I had considerable difficulty in tracking any down . |
| 13 | But I had this polyneuritis coming on and I gr gradually went paralysed . |
| 14 | It had never been done before , but I had this premonition , and of course it proved true . ’ |
| 15 | But I had this instinct that you 'd have a better chance if you first spent some time with me — ’ |
| 16 | But I noticed last night you had a bit of a job to er |
| 17 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 18 | But I met one girl by accident when I walked into the hostel one night and she was visiting another girl there . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I do n't know , ’ says Charles , ‘ but I met this girl in television the other evening , and she said people are going to be dropping off your Matterhorn thing like fleas off a dog . ’ |
| 20 | Andrew Mitchell , in charge here , was on holiday , but I met another colleague , Fiona Sheppard , who looks after events . |
| 21 | Yeah , but I got that bit wrong |
| 22 | ‘ But I got quick support from Albert Craig and Ray Farningham coming from midfield , ’ he admitted . |
| 23 | I thought he 'd gone off it but I got wrong bag . |
| 24 | But I thought good structure control overall , painted pictures well erm and I think perhaps just probe a bit more just a little bit stronger than you are at painting pictures but as you see a picture paints a thousand words . |
| 25 | ‘ But I felt less affection and respect for you when I said it then , than I do at this minute , when I ca n't honestly say it . |
| 26 | Dolomite , its in the paper , its in the paper for five-fifty , but I told that lady last night is it , what , what is , what 's , what 's your minimum offer , I said well I want four hundred for it I 'm not going to take any less so I was , I was sort of and |
| 27 | But I possessed that night an almost total recall of physical sensations . |
| 28 | Bill , I have been receiving home help , for which I 'm very grateful , a good service , but I paid four pound forty five a week for somebody to come in and just wash and dress my wife in the morning . |
| 29 | Chairman I have to but I moved conservative resolution and I am now the debate problem . |
| 30 | Erm , but I wanted some cash , so what I did in the end was walked round Asda remembered it , or thought I remembered it , came back out put the erm card back in and the terminal came up erm it 's ok . |