Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [det] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And your totems have the same names as my masks , but I made those names up ! |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | but I had that ages ago in one of my |
| 11 | I decided I must go up to Addis Ababa and try to get permission to start again , but I had little hope of succeeding . |
| 12 | I did it willingly because I still loved his company so much , but I had little money . |
| 13 | Everybody wanted that , but I had some contacts , I knew I could get in there . |
| 14 | But I had some pain passing water today . ’ |
| 15 | Herman asked me to tell them all about Greece — but I had more sense than to do so . |
| 16 | I could have jumped up and battered his foot if I 'd wanted to , but I had more respect than that ! ’ |
| 17 | But I had this polyneuritis coming on and I gr gradually went paralysed . |
| 18 | It had never been done before , but I had this premonition , and of course it proved true . ’ |
| 19 | But I had this instinct that you 'd have a better chance if you first spent some time with me — ’ |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | Andrew Mitchell , in charge here , was on holiday , but I met another colleague , Fiona Sheppard , who looks after events . |
| 23 | I told no one , not even Méli , about my visit to Conchis , but I spent many hours conjecturing about the mysterious third person in the house . |
| 24 | Yeah , but I got that bit wrong |
| 25 | This may well have been the case in September 1987 but I thought most reviewers were scared to dive in and uncover the record 's moments of uncoordinated parody for fear of being trampled to death by hordes of rampant Smiths devotees . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | But I possessed that night an almost total recall of physical sensations . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ I had a bit of a headache on Wednesday , but I did some running yesterday and training today and I 'm in great shape again . ’ |