Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In fact there were very few guide dogs at that time and erm I 've never felt that erm it 's , I mean maybe just my erm silliness really but I , I never wanted a dog lying about all day because once at the office I stayed put as it were until it was time to go home and I could have taken the dog I suppose during the lunch hour but I preferred that time to erm to reading |
| 4 | mhm Well , David Brian , now you 're a doctor and a reverend and your the curate at Christ Church in Abingdon , but you spent some time over there in Saints Mary and John Church . |
| 5 | She felt happier about Kathleen now that she knew that she had a champion in Ella , but she had little time to dwell on the O'Neills . |
| 6 | The weather was not too promising , but we made good time and were soon at the first terrace . |
| 7 | Bicker muttered to himself as he rode in front , but they made better time for the wind had not risen and the sun was almost warm . |
| 8 | True , there was Crown prince Tupouto'a waiting in the wings , but he spent little time in Tonga and had a reputation as a playboy — a Farouk-like figure given to white suits and expensive lady friends . |
| 9 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
| 10 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |
| 11 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |
| 12 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 13 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 14 | I know schools up the [ place in West Belfast ] who would welcome us , but what happened one time , a school up there won the trophy and the next day some boys [ i.e. from the IRA ] came demanding the shield and threatening what they would do to certain teachers if it was n't handed over . |