Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb -s] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When told how Evans had been rumbled , St Helens chairman Eric Latham said : ‘ It 's news to me — but nothing surprises me anymore . |
| 2 | There 's a girl my elder brother wants to marry , and my family want it , too , but she likes me better , and I like her , and her parents wo n't force her . |
| 3 | She gives me flowers , but she loves me not . |
| 4 | But he annoys me so much . ’ |
| 5 | I have no idea what he earns , but he gives me about 1,500 rupees ( $ ) a month to run the house . |
| 6 | But it turns me on just to hear you say it . ’ |
| 7 | My boyfriend and I have been going out for six weeks and everything is wonderful but it takes me honestly two hours to reach orgasm . |
| 8 | Heaven knows I 've tried talking to him , but it gets me nowhere . |
| 9 | But it gets me out of the house for a while . |
| 10 | The idea excites me but it scares me too , ’ she confesses . |
| 11 | Of course , some players do n't have a problem with this and it 's not the fault of the instrument , but it catches me out every time I dig in . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , but it suits me perfectly , Luke , ’ she disabused him of the conceit with a blistering smile . |
| 13 | ‘ I would like to believe that , Sir John , but it strikes me as false . ’ |
| 14 | I can not paint it as beautifully as that , but it absorbs me so much that I let myself go , never thinking of a single rule … |
| 15 | It 's a lot of bucks but it serves me right . ’ |
| 16 | But what gets me most is when somebody dies who has n't really lived . |
| 17 | but what gets me down is not the royal bit , it 's the family bit ! |
| 18 | But what concerns me greatly again , is we seem to be doing it or the District Council in bits and bobs . |
| 19 | ’ This creates a much stronger argument , but what interests me here is Chisholm 's reason for holding that ( b ) does not follow from ( a ) . |
| 20 | But what worries me more is the process of secularisation . |