Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I went down the bottom of this street , and the man stood there waiting for me . |
| 2 | But I took on the idea of transcendence only at a personal level . |
| 3 | I woke feeling good , eager to get back to the Hall , but I wrote down the dream first , thinking I would tell it to Edward . |
| 4 | I stared into the mirror , expecting to see huge marks like red flowers blazing on my mouth where I had been kissed , but I looked just the same as I always did . |
| 5 | After a few days , nine or ten , I wondered if it would aid things to pay a visit to Scotland , but I had n't the purpose for it , let alone the money . |
| 6 | But I had n't the heart . |
| 7 | But I had exactly the contrary feeling . |
| 8 | Most of my friends collapsed thankfully on to their beds , but I slunk down the long flights of stone stairs and took up a position in the foyer where I could watch the front door . |
| 9 | The outside air temperature was above minimum , but I switched on the engine anti-ice anyway , just to be sure . |
| 10 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 11 | Erm well actually what I wanted was a repeat of my prescription , but I wondered why the last time I had one I got sixty instead of a hundred that I got before ? |
| 12 | He smiled and lifted his champagne glass to his lips and Ruth expected some sort of challenge thrown out but none came and a strange feeling percolated inside her , almost disappointment , but she shooed away the notion . |
| 13 | The honey was fermenting but she chewed up the nut and swallowed it avidly ; then , encouraged by Tom , she dipped her finger in the honey and licked it clean . |
| 14 | But she laid down the rebec on her knees , and looked up at Bénezet with a fiercely thoughtful face . |
| 15 | ‘ Course , in time she came to know her mother 's death was n't an ordinary drowning accident , but she kept up the pretence . |
| 16 | But she had n't the patience for that . |
| 17 | She felt herself being picked up and carried , but she had n't the strength to struggle . |
| 18 | She knew she looked better in her skirt and jersey , but she had not the courage to wear them . |
| 19 | She was brainy — that is , she had her head stuffed with facts , but she had neither the intelligence nor judgement to interpret their significance and relate them to the world . |
| 20 | No doubt the wall was lower at some point — down at the edge of the parkland , perhaps — but she had neither the time nor the inclination to find out . |
| 21 | For a moment , Donna felt tears welling up in her eyes but she fought back the pain , forced the thoughts away . |
| 22 | Her eyelids fluttered and she went deathly white , but she fought back the dizzying sensation , her hands coming up to brace herself against fitzAlan 's chest while the world righted itself . |
| 23 | Lady Grubb knew a great deal about antiques and owned some beautiful pieces , but she topped up the genuine furnishings with reproduction Jacobean coffee tables and plastic cruets . |
| 24 | But she cherished even the pain that Mark caused her . |
| 25 | She had the insane desire to tell all that to this man , but she bit back the words . |
| 26 | But she bit back the words . |
| 27 | It was on the tip of her tongue then to ask if he had managed to dispatch the papers to whoever they were destined for , but she held back the question before it got uttered . |
| 28 | The engaged tone bleeping in Robyn 's ear confirmed the good sense of this judgement , but she put down the receiver reluctantly . |
| 29 | Michelle was the only one on duty there , but she put down the latest James Herbert long enough to tell me that yes , they had sent for an Airborne messenger just after eleven , and that Anna kept asking if I 'd called . |
| 30 | McKenzie tried to push her head under water but she pulled out the plug . |