Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that telling them would be hard but nothing prepared me for their anger and grief during our final month together . |
| 2 | ‘ I was expecting it to be bad , but nothing prepared me for this ! ’ |
| 3 | But nothing reached her from the other cabin . |
| 4 | Mills Roberts was a stickler for discipline but everyone recognised him as a good soldier and therefore , for all his shouting , he was a popular figure . |
| 5 | But I knew nothing at all about Tohoku University , or about the city of Sendai . |
| 6 | He was born in France , but I knew him in Persia . |
| 7 | This was best summed up by Everett , the market gardener : ‘ She were never a gel , but I knew her as a young woman and she were old then . ’ |
| 8 | Do n't ask me how — but I knew it without a shadow of a doubt . |
| 9 | But I sensed it within her . |
| 10 | At planning meetings with the senior management I often had to endure predictable little jokes about Andreas 's ‘ harem ’ , but I took them with a good grace . |
| 11 | I ca n't read , but I took it to the priest and he read it to me . ’ |
| 12 | They did n't want him , but I persuaded them in the end . |
| 13 | But I owed it to Jacques and Marie-Christine . |
| 14 | ‘ I read about it at the time , but I heard none of the details . |
| 15 | Gerald Brennan , writing just two or three years after the war , says in The Face of Spain that the slow hand-clap to attract the attention of waiters had died out , but I heard it in several places in the north . |
| 16 | He recognized that this was contrary to the opinion of the pope and others at the papal court , but he put it forward as his own : ‘ others certainly may have thought of it , but I received it from no one ’ . |
| 17 | But I saw him with his cap full of golden sovereigns and turned on the table and lent them all he 'd got . |
| 18 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 19 | ‘ I have a full staff here but I released them for the fiesta in Palma . |
| 20 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 21 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 22 | Mind you , I have an idea that this would be good to use as a weaving yarn , but I restrained myself from buying any — I have enough cones in the cupboard , thank you very much . |
| 23 | And it must be , I 've been up here twenty-three years , it must be getting on for thirty years old that teapot and er I could n't have afforded that money for that stainless steel teapot , as those days , but I had it with my divi . |
| 24 | But I had it from Makepeace , who was here at the time . |
| 25 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |
| 26 | Well I 'm , I 'm the same , I was talking to Rob the other day and er , I forget how I mentioned it , but I said something about , oh I think it 's because I was saying why do n't you come up like this week because he 's off this week , and er , he was making some excuse or other , oh I 've got three weeks off in the summer , oh I 'd sooner come up when I 've got this longest spell off , you know , and I want to get this chimney done and blah , blah |
| 27 | The Oxford University Library should be worried , but I said what about his sight ? |
| 28 | " The hurt was beginning from when he had stood unmoving when I put my arms round him , but I drove myself through it . |
| 29 | But I secured him by his stump and went on . |
| 30 | And er that 's how I performed the , but I kept it to myself all these years you know and never told anybody what I 'd done because I think it was terrible . |