Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I knew at the time that I felt I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again . |
| 2 | How the but I looked at the . |
| 3 | But I listened at the bedroom door when you found my terminal . |
| 4 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 5 | ‘ When Blackburn came in for me , they were well down the old Second Division , but I jumped at the chance . |
| 6 | It had been aimed at my head , but I moved at the last second , prompted by some unclassified intuition of survival . |
| 7 | The thing has little music & little choiceness of words , but I fancied at the time it was genuine enough . |
| 8 | ‘ I had , ’ said Rosalind , hurrying in , ‘ but I stopped at the post-office to get a stamp for my letter and it was closed and the wretched stamp-machine was empty . |
| 9 | But she relaxed at the sound of Schubert . |
| 10 | Alexandra wondered if Mrs Burrows had said anything else , but she gazed at the tapestry on her lap and said only , ‘ She — she is most kind . |
| 11 | Firemen had to lift up the bus before ambulance officers could try to rescue her , but she died at the scene . |
| 12 | But she looked at the robe again and several of the eyes opened and blinked and swivelled in their sockets , as if they had heard her thoughts and were rather amused by them . |
| 13 | But she tugged at the Mendelssohn like a bad child . |
| 14 | but , erm , she was hoping to come to the meeting this evening , but she phoned at the last minute and said she could n't make it , but erm , I do n't know if it would be more appropriate perhaps for the schools groups to get in touch with her and I |
| 15 | But she pulled at the pink blanket and did n't say anything . |
| 16 | ‘ All I wanted was a pain-killer but they said at the desk that there were none in the hotel . |
| 17 | In such phrases one sees a characteristic Tolkienian strength : his ideas were often paradoxical and had deep intellectual roots , but they appealed at the same time to simple things and to everyday experience . |
| 18 | Sean and Michael were there too , but they stood at the back looking usher-smart in new suits , and keeping a professional eye on the collecting plate . |
| 19 | But he relented at the sight of Isabelle smiling and bearing gifts , his Continental dream . |
| 20 | But he stared at the screens as the pictures sharpened into focus . |
| 21 | But he shuddered at the military and political repercussions throughout the Middle East of a Western bid to defeat or overthrow Nasser . |
| 22 | But he appeared at the Old Bailey for an earlier trespass at Buckingham Palace , during which he had drunk some wine in the office of the Prince of Wales ' private secretary , and was sent to a secure hospital in Liverpool . |
| 23 | But he rang at the front . |
| 24 | But it stopped at the sky . |
| 25 | But it stopped at the neck , and its body did not appear . |
| 26 | But it did at the time appear rather a , the last thing |
| 27 | But it emerged at the meeting , held in Yokohama , Japan , that only seven of its 47 member governments had prepared strategies for meeting this target . |
| 28 | With a little moan of fear she scrambled out of the car and raced to the house to hammer on the door , but it opened at the first blow from her fist . |