Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the wedding , everyone but everyone came up to me to say , ‘ It wo n't be long before it 's your turn too , ’ or something similar , and each time somebody said it , I grew increasingly resentful . |
| 2 | ‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night and could n't get back to sleep , so I decided to bake a cake , after all . |
| 3 | ‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night in agony . |
| 4 | I said I had to piss , but I ran out of the house and walked around the streets wondering what the fuck to do and trying to imagine what Dad was saying to Mum and how she was taking it . |
| 5 | I was crying outright now , and he made a move towards me which I sensed in the darkness , but I lashed out with my hand and knocked his arm down , and cried , " Leave me alone , that 's what you want to do ! " |
| 6 | He looked at me as though he had seen me somewhere before , but I passed by with a curt nod . |
| 7 | But I came back as a Gnome . |
| 8 | I was very unhappy , but I came back to France , to Paris . |
| 9 | ‘ But I came down to the theatre and was assured it was suitable for children so we came with open minds , ’ she said . |
| 10 | But I came out with an O level ! |
| 11 | But I came out of the stand through the fire exit and I ca n't get back in . |
| 12 | Well I was I was me leg for a bit too But I went up to Monklands and |
| 13 | My headmaster thought I was much too young to try for Oxford , but I went up in March 1959 to do the scholarship exam with two boys from the year above me at school . |
| 14 | She said at last , ‘ You may think it strange , but I went round with Mr Sheldrake . |
| 15 | But I went on to bigger clubs . ’ |
| 16 | I was meant to talk for fifteen minutes but I went on for three-quarters of an hour . |
| 17 | ‘ No , but I went down to the quay one Sunday and I heard her . |
| 18 | We were in Stratford for the summer , but I went down to Hampshire for a few weeks to do some business for Will about some sheep . |
| 19 | ‘ But I went back to my first dancing teacher who taught me when I was 12 and it was like five hours of physiotherapy every day . |
| 20 | But I went along with him , and from time to time we shared a toothbrush , either his or mine . |
| 21 | ‘ It was Rose 's idea , but I went along with it willingly enough . |
| 22 | ‘ I was not happy with this , but I went along with it because I had enjoyed playing under Ossie at Swindon . |
| 23 | But I looked out of the window as I spoke to him . |
| 24 | But I kept up with Hubert . |
| 25 | But apparently they know that I 'm really forward which is absolute , actually not very true cos Ed said that I was quite forward and he , I was only forward with him because the person I got off with just before him was bloody forward and it made me a bit forward but I calmed down after that , you know ? |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't use drugs myself , but I grew up in the South Bronx where heroin use was all around me . |
| 27 | But I got down to ten stone . |
| 28 | I was not Boat Race standard , but I got by at the level of intercollege competition . |
| 29 | But I got by on brute force and ignorance till I learnt a bit . ’ |
| 30 | Well I did n't know Spanish , but I got by with the Italian , you know , I had , I had once , . |