Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't , I have n't got a clue but I knew it the minute the second you said it I knew it . |
| 2 | But I made him a vow , ’ she shrugged . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ The van was not there at 6pm but I noticed it a little bit later . |
| 4 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 5 | People say they become imperceptive ; they spend hours looking for the car keys that were on the table in front of them all the time ; they become preoccupied and inattentive to what other people are saying to them ( ‘ But I told you the Smiths were coming over yesterday . |
| 6 | She would n't say even then but I plagued her a bit till she could n't keep it to herself any longer . |
| 7 | I said I was n't sure , but I gave them a phone number which I knew to be Nassim 's office above a leather warehouse in Brick Lane . |
| 8 | He made a half-hearted move towards me , but I gave him no encouragement . |
| 9 | I think I said it was a 6-iron or maybe a 7 , but I gave him the yardage and he hit his shot right at the hole . |
| 10 | I got out of the car and ran to my front door , my mum answered the door , she looked quite different but I gave her a massive cuddle and went indoors . |
| 11 | But I gave her a cold stare and fluffed my fur out ; I could n't have her thinking I was a pushover . |
| 12 | I was utterly baffled , but I gave you the benefit of every doubt , which by this time added up to a couple of thousand . |
| 13 | Th we th , I think at that time it was just the done thing , you hand out tranquillizers , erm but I found it a , a really bad experience |
| 14 | But you got her a bike and that ? |
| 15 | Good try — but you got it the wrong way round ! |
| 16 | ‘ But you gave her an ‘ A ’ , Luke , ’ she whispered . |
| 17 | But she offered me a nice sunny room under the eaves at the back . |
| 18 | Er so I 'm gon na have them but she showed me the small room , what they call the small room , well that was huge well it will be perfect for what we want . |
| 19 | But she paid them no heed as she held out the lid for Charlotte to see . |
| 20 | It was the long way round , but she did it every day . |
| 21 | I intended to ask the Baronessa Dulcibene why she had come to pay her last respects to this mysterious Englishman but she gave me a glassy look of non-recognition and moved rapidly away with her companion . |
| 22 | He waved to me , but she gave me a menacing glare . |
| 23 | Folly doubted if she would care what Luke got up to , but she gave her the flowers none the less . |
| 24 | Flaubert was distressed and begged for mercy , but she gave him no quarter . ’ |
| 25 | He tried to start things up in a halfhearted sort of way , but she gave him an ultimatum . |
| 26 | She had been disappointed in her first sight of him , but she gave him an amused little smile , hoping that he was not one who doted on cats . |
| 27 | ‘ We 're so sorry about what happened to poor old Goosie Lucy but she gave us no choice . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's a tricky one to answer because the complexities are still there but we made them a lot more hidden . |
| 29 | But we gave them a lesson . |
| 30 | But we called it a playhouse , it felt like one . |