Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [det] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | I always remember like I were only little but I remember these things you know . |
| 5 | But I remember these choirs all over the place in the town hall in Wexford singing these stunningly beautiful chants in Irish . |
| 6 | But I remember those times with my father as being very traumatic . ’ |
| 7 | I 've got no idea but I mean some pictures are very expensive |
| 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 | Everybody wanted that , but I had some contacts , I knew I could get in there . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Finally , in Soviet bureaucracy as in any other , there are perils in drawing too firmly the lines between policy , advice and implementation , but I introduce these distinctions here in order to keep confusion within bounds . |
| 15 | And er I mean it was all luck everything that sort of happened to me that night anyway I mean it it was n't so lucky for other people but I suppose most survivors have their their tale or so . |
| 16 | Most children have their characters they like and so the theme may well choose itself , but I include some ideas . |
| 17 | But I expect many others to work on them after me and analyse them in their turn . |
| 18 | But I want all Ensigns to put in at least half an hour 's hard digging with the troops between now and then . |
| 19 | But I want those names . ’ |
| 20 | But I have more friends who are willing to admit publicly that they know me ! |
| 21 | I want to enjoy it while it is here , but I have some aspirations … like shops , ’ says Kylie , who yearns to own a string of ‘ green ’ shops . |
| 22 | I support the Bill , but I have some criticisms of past Government policy . |
| 23 | So consequently a lot of stuff that ended up on record was the more soulful , slower stuff , but I have some places where I really get to stretch out on this record . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Then I went back to the basics again … but I think all guitarists go through that , do n't they ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He proved us wrong and we 've apologised , but I think most parents would have reacted exactly the same way . ’ |
| 27 | but I think most criminals would probably benefit more , from being made to face , er , |
| 28 | But I think those days are now over and anybody who 's been in building societies , there 's now a feeling er that things have altered quite a long way . |
| 29 | You can not count the features of loveliness here , but I attach some pages from my notebook to discover to you the ingenious flora of this fair isle and their many productive and rich uses . |
| 30 | I 'm a big fan of Elton John , but I love all entertainers — I happen to be an entertainer-lover ! ’ |