Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [adv] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But you barely know me , ’ she returned curiously . |
| 2 | ‘ But you scarcely know me , ’ she said demurely . |
| 3 | But you never told me to bring it down . |
| 4 | ‘ But you never told me they would be there ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But you only saw me the other night ! |
| 6 | ‘ But you only owe me £15 , sir ! ’ |
| 7 | Dad , dad , Auntie has to go somewhere I do n't know where , but she just told me to call you cos it 's quarter past fifteen minutes past six or is it seven ? |
| 8 | But she just told me she wanted her hair done . |
| 9 | She is worried about me not eating , she is worried that my periods have stopped , that I look thinner and thinner , that my hair has gone dry and flat and rasps like paper when you touch it , but she also admires me . |
| 10 | I offered to talk of a duty superior to that she mentioned , which would oblige her to help distressed innocence , and not permit her to go to the lengths enjoined by lawless tyranny ; but she plainly bid me be silent on that head ; for it was vain to attempt to persuade her to betray her trust . |
| 11 | Later I asked Mala the original of that unlikely nickname , but she merely told me , with a faint blush , that is was none of my business . |
| 12 | ‘ I offered to stay , but she obviously wanted me to go . |
| 13 | Yeah I know I know it 's got a lot of milk in and I did ask for it for you , but she still give me one like that . |
| 14 | I feel I know her like a sister now — she 's younger than I am — but she never told me about the twins . |
| 15 | A little bit but she really winds me up she does . |
| 16 | It was enough to daunt most people , but she once told me that the only thing that dismayed her was sorting out their incredible mass of luggage , making sure that the right things went by the right route and that nothing was left behind . |
| 17 | But she always told me |
| 18 | She had other daughters in the town but she always wanted me and if ever she wanted anything to do with her papers and books and financial things , she used to ask my husband to go in , you see the day after we got there she brought us a huge dish like that with mushrooms which er grew f er well there are houses built there now but er at that time they had a big meadow there sort of a copse er in it with a bunch of trees and you see and all these mushrooms grew , you see , and they were , you know , they 're nice you see . |
| 19 | She said : ‘ They knew what I was doing , but they just let me carry on . ’ |
| 20 | But they just ignored me then . |
| 21 | They were and still are helpful in my classical playing , but they also helped me in developing slurring in my electric playing . |
| 22 | But they soon knocked me into shape . |
| 23 | But they always gave me the choice first and put me in a dilemma , though I did n't know the meaning of the word then . |
| 24 | It was n't a very dangerous operation , but they never told me that . |
| 25 | My father 's my dad but they never told me they were n't married . |
| 26 | ‘ But they never let me down , ’ he said . |
| 27 | I 'd been out with other boys other than Keith but they never touched me . |
| 28 | You lead me to defy God and gravity , my Neptune , she thought , with your devilry and your mystical shadows , but they never leave me , not really , and everything else apart from their holding forces is false . |
| 29 | I saw my mother once a day at dinner time and I saw my father three or four times a week , but they never gave me any love . |
| 30 | The DHSS made me go to see them every day — I had a broken bone in my ankle but they still made me go every day ! |