Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were a tremendous help during that period when my athletics earning power was almost nil but I had to devote all my time to athletics to achieve success . |
| 2 | But you had to take all that worry that |
| 3 | But she had forgotten all the warnings . |
| 4 | She had tried to explain this feeling to Gay and Felicity , when they had come out of the Jade Cockatoo on their last night together ; but she had known all the time that it was n't a thing that could be explained . |
| 5 | Afghans , he went on , had been optimistic when Miss Bhutto came to power but she had betrayed all her promises to settle the Afghan conflict . |
| 6 | ‘ But we had to go all the way along to the badger tunnel and there were no proper tracks . |
| 7 | I know as good as the next man what is hip but we decided to forget all that and just concentrate on good songs . |
| 8 | Kelso were guilty of missing far too many tackles , but they did lose all their back row through injury during the game , and Eric Paxton had to come out of retirement as a replacement . |
| 9 | But he had blocked all her attempts to anoint him with love and sympathy . |
| 10 | It took him six hours to make a long , thin rope , but he had lost all sense of time . |
| 11 | He had not got very much information but he had got all that she could offer , he was sure of that . |
| 12 | Over seventy he might be but he had retained all his faculties . |
| 13 | He had n't really believed him but he 'd dug all the same and his Dad had been angry . |
| 14 | he was like being shy but he 'd had all the side of his fur like shaved , and I thought urgh ! |
| 15 | She had wanted everything nice and new for Debbie , but it had taken all their remaining savings . |
| 16 | They had meant it kindly , she knew , but it had hurt all the same . |
| 17 | Not that she believed his mother was a tramp , but whatever had happened all those years ago it had obviously involved her grandfather — why else would he give her money when the child so obviously could n't have been his ? |