Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I see the Giotto frescoes at Padua I do not trouble to recognise which scene in the life of Christ I have before me , but I perceive instantly the sentiment which radiates from it and which is instinct in the composition in every line and color . |
| 2 | But I keep up the woods . |
| 3 | I used to love riding , but I went over a jump seven years ago and the horse stopped , but I kept on going , and I fractured my back , so I thought , I 'm too old for that . |
| 4 | But I went down the bottom of this street , and the man stood there waiting for me . |
| 5 | But I took on the idea of transcendence only at a personal level . |
| 6 | I woke feeling good , eager to get back to the Hall , but I wrote down the dream first , thinking I would tell it to Edward . |
| 7 | Yes but I remember right a . |
| 8 | ‘ As you know , I 'm an adequate , plain cook , but I 've neither the time nor the talent to produce a coq au vin like this one : it was produced by my neighbour , Mrs Neville , who is seventy-five years old and runs a thriving emergency cooking , house-sitting and general crisis-management service for the neighbourhood . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ All very well , Miss Kyte , ’ had said Agnes Diggory bluntly , ‘ for you to come the fine lady over me , but I 've only the one pair of hands ! |
| 10 | Er , but I mean clearly the , the debt and the guarantees are paid down first and so for the reason we are high up in the pecking order , because we provided the er , the loans and the guarantees . |
| 11 | because this is , I mean I did n't hear the dogs last night , only the kid , but I mean nevertheless the day before if you 'd of been in there , so but , but the kitchen can be done , toilet can be done |
| 12 | But I mean really the the grammar is you and I ! |
| 13 | I stared into the mirror , expecting to see huge marks like red flowers blazing on my mouth where I had been kissed , but I looked just the same as I always did . |
| 14 | I would have tried to contact you , but I had n't a phone number . |
| 15 | After a few days , nine or ten , I wondered if it would aid things to pay a visit to Scotland , but I had n't the purpose for it , let alone the money . |
| 16 | But I had n't the heart . |
| 17 | But I had exactly the contrary feeling . |
| 18 | I am normally a law-abiding citizen but I had not a single scruple . |
| 19 | I did n't care much for the hens and geese but I had quite a high opinion of the pigs . |
| 20 | ‘ At first I was the only guest wearing it , but I noticed quite a few others following suit . ’ |
| 21 | But I said too a man of sorts , for the acknowledgement now includes crippled masculinity , and with that Joyce is free to embody and enact a different fear hinted at before in , for example , The Dead , but masked by the victim 's status of the woman thrust on so cruelly by the culture . |
| 22 | ‘ But I know just the thing to cheer us up . ’ |
| 23 | But I put on a bright new grin . |
| 24 | But I put out the flags — let them see I 'd come back . |
| 25 | Most of my friends collapsed thankfully on to their beds , but I slunk down the long flights of stone stairs and took up a position in the foyer where I could watch the front door . |
| 26 | From the rattles and clunks it 's difficult to tell what 's happening , but I switch on the cassette recorder in case . |
| 27 | But I gather quite a few people in the industry have actually lost their jobs , have they not , and been laid off ? |
| 28 | I never did get the hang of table tennis but I became quite a useful bantam-weight and once even represented the club against Bethnal Green . |
| 29 | The outside air temperature was above minimum , but I switched on the engine anti-ice anyway , just to be sure . |
| 30 | Everybody is making the bodies real small , but I scaled down a teeny bit and what I took off that way , I added in thickness , so it 's fat , like a Les Paul , so you can get that big , beefy sound . |