Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] these [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I do not remember whether we enlivened the day with a penny ride on a donkey round the White Stone pond but I regarded these donkeys with the respect and admiration rarely afforded by the keenest jockey for his mount and one of my day-dreams ( only once realised and then somehow a little disappointing ) was to save up three weeks ' pocket money and have a 3d ride in place of a Id one , which took you for at least a hundred yards along the Spaniards Road . |
| 3 | But I dismissed these thoughts from my mind and entered our house . |
| 4 | But she thought these occasions were important to him and perhaps constituted another reason why he wanted to marry her . |
| 5 | The Parminter tale was utterly scandalous and she would have to persuade Wilmot to skate around the libel laws if it were to get into print , but she kept these reservations to herself . |
| 6 | But she pushed these fears away . |
| 7 | Sometimes Anne was annoyed by this unnecessary furtiveness and sometimes wondered why John had not explained the situation to her sooner and let her decide whether she wished to be involved with him , but she pushed these doubts aside . |
| 8 | In two respects — the nature of their self-concepts and their social networks — their position was quite highly domestic and kin-oriented , but they shared these characteristics with other women in the sample . |
| 9 | With erm and they had sand , they all had sandbags along there , but they had these sort of er walls built up . |
| 10 | But he put these thoughts to the back of his mind now , with a silent promise that they would be uttered one day soon . |
| 11 | But what did these freaks do ? ’ |
| 12 | But what did these sounds mean and where , in this wilderness , could they bolt to ? |