Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not sure what time he 'll be through with his meeting , but perhaps I 'd better get back to the hotel and show willing just in case he 's there . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I told you I 'd be back , but perhaps I stayed away too long . |
| 3 | ‘ And Kate , the vacancy is now filled , but perhaps you 'd better take names and addresses of any applicants just in case they 're needed later . ’ |
| 4 | But perhaps she 'd never really been there at all . |
| 5 | Hari rubbed her hand over her eyes , it had been a strange day , an eventful one in which she had quite clearly made an enemy but perhaps she had also made a friend of Edward Morris . |
| 6 | But so I spent quite some time over that . |
| 7 | Well I think , I think it was a few of them involved , but apparently he went so you never know . |
| 8 | She tried to act flippant by shrugging her shoulders and holding out her palms but inside she felt far from flippant . |
| 9 | Maybe the women in Guido 's life were rather more accustomed to red silk nightdresses with plunging necklines and the sides split halfway up the thigh , but personally she had never possessed anything quite so racy . |
| 10 | But suddenly he felt utterly exhausted . |
| 11 | The Bushman was following it , but suddenly he swerved aside and he went off in another direction and I followed him , although I could clearly see the buffalo hoofmarks leading off in the opposite way . |
| 12 | Five were smokers but only one drank more than five units of alcohol a week and only one patient had a family history of ulcer disease . |
| 13 | G was green , the colour that B , the biter , turned when she had swallowed apple A. ‘ H , IH ’ , she said , ‘ especially in the stomach , but soon she ached everywhere else as well . |
| 14 | They had started early , when the day was still cool , but soon it grew very hot . |
| 15 | I did n't think I had an option — I was no teenage Lothario — but anyway I knew instinctively , without even having to ask him , that Mr Broadhurst would view the loss of my virginity as incompatible with my apprenticeship . |
| 16 | No I do n't , but nevertheless nobody knew only people like us and the neighbours , how that kid was every day when her mother to the T S B and her mother according to Julia had her because it was the done thing her mother , her own mother would n't have her , Kerry to look after her and I know that for a fact because one time when Ross was ill , Julia said I ca n't have her and she said oh god I suppose I 've got to go and beg my mother to have her now she did , but the woman said to Julia , I mean she would n't give up her job , they had a four bedroomed house , two bloody great cars , eleven cats |
| 17 | Providence , destiny — although I would like to treat destiny with a very small " d " in my case — inevitably played their parts but nevertheless I got away with it , and my crew got away with it . |
| 18 | It was ridiculous , for the flimsy garment could give her no protection , but nevertheless she felt very vulnerable without them . |
| 19 | But generally I saw more living conditions later on , er when er I started rent collecting for the council . |
| 20 | But not everybody read that far . |
| 21 | The rolling of the waves against the rocky coastline made landing difficult , but finally they scrambled ashore . |
| 22 | But finally he drew away from her lips and buried his face in her neck and hair , breathing heavily as if exhausted and spent . |
| 23 | It was n't that she had n't tried to form relationships , but somehow they had just never amounted to anything significant . |
| 24 | She should have thrown it out years ago but somehow she 'd never had the heart . |
| 25 | Of course , she had come up against death , or the prospect of it , many times in the course of her work , but somehow she had never acquired the sort of immunity against emotional involvement , that almost instinctive shutting off , as so many of her colleagues had seemed to do . |
| 26 | It was ridiculous , but somehow she had never overcome a resistance to working with children . |
| 27 | Despite the instruction often given by teachers to emphasise personal involvement towards the end of an essay , you should avoid the sort of over-personalised ending found in this essay : After reading the first paragraph , I did n't expect such an exciting story , but gradually I got more and more involved in the narrative and finally overwhelmed by this splendid spectacle , which I could vividly visualise . |
| 28 | But once we got home that was it . |
| 29 | But yesterday he 'd specifically stated , ‘ You 'd better dine with me tomorrow , ’ and he would n't go back on his word , would he ? |
| 30 | But yesterday he showed just how much his party needs him now . |