Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sparkled with energy , but I struck few sparks . |
| 2 | It is unfortunate that the talk comes quite so soon after Christmas , but I hope all members living locally will make every effort to come and I know that they will be glad they did . |
| 3 | It 's nice to have money for pretty clothes and makeup , but I prefer other methods ! ’ |
| 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 | I fully share the concern felt about the dastardly acts in Ulster and the United Kingdom as a whole , but I ask hon. Members to keep their questions brief . |
| 6 | I always remember like I were only little but I remember these things you know . |
| 7 | But I remember these choirs all over the place in the town hall in Wexford singing these stunningly beautiful chants in Irish . |
| 8 | But I remember those times with my father as being very traumatic . ’ |
| 9 | We had a proper training at the beginning of the war , but I remember later drafts coming out to us — young lads from the Lancashire cotton mills , for instance . |
| 10 | PC Kelly went on : ‘ I did not hear anything but I saw two flashes from the barrel of the gun and I presumed he had shot Goodman twice . ’ |
| 11 | Yeah but I mean real oranges , but you peel them and I 'd |
| 12 | Yeah , but I mean basic things Ken , we 'll take for example |
| 13 | I 've got no idea but I mean some pictures are very expensive |
| 14 | On that , I think it is generally known , that we , that Telford was n't anywhere near the top of the list , and it had been taken purely on the question of the er , needs of the various areas , it 's unlikely that Telford would have succeeded , even with its reduced geographical area , but I made discrete enquiries and was told that the factor which tipped er , the Commission in favour of Telford , and this has an important bearing on what we 're going to discuss later , was the fact that Telford has been very good in taking up schemes and providing their section , and not just the Wreakin District Council , other area , other bodies in Telford , of getting good innovative schemes off the ground and providing the cash , they did n't , as some areas did , get the status , and then hardly do anything about it . |
| 15 | Could n't really tell you what it was now , but I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 16 | And your totems have the same names as my masks , but I made those names up ! |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | But I hear interesting things . |
| 19 | but I had that ages ago in one of my |
| 20 | But I had two brothers . |
| 21 | I can not claim to have been a close friend , but I had occasional encounters with him and , as with most people , it would be more accurate to describe them as occasional brushes . |
| 22 | A doctor said it was an infested splinter , but I had stabbing pains there — and then , at night , as I lay in bed unable to get to sleep because of the pain , I could hear a munching sound . |
| 23 | Everybody wanted that , but I had some contacts , I knew I could get in there . |
| 24 | But I had three glasses of sherry quickly . |
| 25 | I know I mean I stayed with him but I had three kids . |
| 26 | But I experienced other disappointments , too , in Schreier 's account of what C.P.E. Bach described as his father 's ‘ great Catholic Mass ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Please do n't tell me to buy children 's shoes as I already do so when I need a flat pair , but I like high heels and am finding it increasingly difficult to buy them . |
| 29 | But I got 75 cents off a New Old Fashioned Patty Melt … |
| 30 | But I got two classes . |