Example sentences of "but [det] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't frighten easy , but that geezer frightened me . |
| 2 | A boy came out and looked at me , a bit suspicious , and I felt a fool , but that boy took me back thirty years . |
| 3 | Neither the religious nor the sexual anxiety in Eliot 's poems came simply from his reading , but that reading allowed him to give supra-individual expression to his personal pain ; he clothed his own cry in the language and mythology of great traditions and their interpretations , making it ‘ impersonal ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know about you , but that film made me horny . |
| 5 | Graciously the principal did apologise for the ferocity of his attack but that encounter prompted me to produce this leaflet in defence of the Word of God and the integrity of some very important person who are in effect made out to be liars if the theory of evolution is true . |
| 6 | ‘ He was distinctive enough , but that scar settled it . |
| 7 | Oh , I know he 's good , an ’ he gave Brett one helluva beatin' , but that don' mean he 's some kinda superman . |
| 8 | ‘ But that priest deserved it ! |
| 9 | Marion Conroy was on stage until the final curtain calls and came up the stairs with the rest of the cast afterwards , observing as she did that Pepper went into his No. 2 and shut the door but that Cissy opened it and went in after him , the wide-eyed babyish stare that was the caricaturists ' joy quite absent . |
| 10 | There 's a part of me that says ‘ Its OK to eat ’ , but another part tugs me back and stops me eating . |
| 11 | One of the high-heid yins wanted to have 20 gondolas , but another councillor said they should only get a male and a female and breed them . ’ |
| 12 | But another sister followed me at the Dowsons when I left to get married . |
| 13 | But another historian calls him one of James II 's ‘ Whig collaborators ’ : he avoided Monmouth 's rebellion , distrained on three rebel tenants , and in 1688 was appointed JP and nominated by James 's electoral agents . |
| 14 | Topaz had never been with a man before , but some instinct told her how to arouse Andrew . |
| 15 | I began as the kind of feminist who said , " It 's not men , it 's the system , " but this journey convinced me that men and masculinity , in their everyday , individual manifestations , constitute a systematic bloc of resistance to the women of their own community and class . |
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| 17 | But this organisation makes it a permanent pleasure for blind and partially sighted people . ’ |
| 18 | But this incident gave me an insight into Dana 's mind . |
| 19 | You know me , Danny , I do n't go roun' askin' fer trouble but this geezer got me goin' . |
| 20 | The Prior had opened his mouth to state that , in his opinion , Robert of Gloucester was unlikely to throw casually aside his loyalty to his half-sister , no matter what councils he might have attended , but this statement made him close his lips on the words . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's been so long I 've forgotten what 's it like , but this game gives me the chance to change that . |
| 22 | But a defiant Wilkinson said : ‘ We have had a few days of mourning after the European Cup defeat , but this match gives us another route back into Europe and we know how important it is to stay on it . ’ |
| 23 | There have been tired legs recently but this win gives us some breathing space . ’ |
| 24 | But this growth makes it possible to obtain an additional supply of goods . |
| 25 | But this tenant says he ca n't pay . |
| 26 | The welcoming party for Ali Bacher , first off the plane , and the 94-strong South African party was only a small one , comprising Jamaican and West Indian Board officials and assorted media , but all present knew they had witnessed a piece of history that only recently seemed destined for the next century . |