Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was talking , cos I walked along , I walked down towards Twickenham , but I walked to way you go to when I went straight down to Twickenham . |
| 2 | Well I was here but I came during break time . |
| 3 | but I went to Lake |
| 4 | she was no good , but I went to bed with her ! |
| 5 | about ten past one , well I had indigestion all night and I could feel it , and we 'd had our tea and I thought oh I do n't know , but I went to bed feeling alright and suddenly I woke up I thought oh my god I 'm gon na be sick , I come running down stairs , but you know I was , I was sick but I know I had n't finished and I 'd sat down and I was sick three times . |
| 6 | We had a very impromptu meal which was brought out from somewhere near Bahrain because our landing area was in a small offshore sand strip where the Nos 55 and 84 Squadron aircraft ( also a Valentia from No 70 Squadron , which was our support aircraft ) were all based overnight and I went to sleep in this hot and humid place , The humidity factor at Bahrain was very high indeed , in the 90s , but I went to sleep quite comfortably on a groundsheet having dug a little hole for my not very considerable hips , weighing very little above 9 stone , and I settled down for the night . |
| 7 | ‘ But I went to school with them . |
| 8 | I saw no trouble at the match , but I heard on TV afterwards that there had been fights in Waverly station before and after the match |
| 9 | But I fell in love , and Stuart is a good person , a kind person , and he loves me . |
| 10 | But I lived at home . ’ |
| 11 | But I lived in fear . ’ |
| 12 | But I stooped like lightning and got the nail up and into my skirt pocket — specially put on — and I was standing exactly as he left me when he jumped back . |
| 13 | But I looked at Mother as they were kissing and she had seen all right . |
| 14 | ‘ But I kept in touch with Graham Taylor and the boys . |
| 15 | ‘ I doubt if His Grace would ever stand up in a court-room to give evidence on my behalf , but I counted on Magistrate Peck being afraid to put it to the test . ’ |
| 16 | But I got to hospital by half-past eight in the morning and by eleven o'clock I 'd had him . |
| 17 | But I felt at home ; and I made a splendid collection of Italian cafe napkins , their corners printed with emblems of the past glory of Ninfania : the Cupid stringing his bow to let fly his darts from the prow in the cafe of the old harbour , and a selection — even I was defeated by the variety — of ice cream wrappers : ‘ Cooky Delight ’ and ‘ Bikini Manhattan ’ and ‘ Magnum Astoria ’ and ‘ Desiree ’ , ‘ Party Craze ’ and ‘ Magic Cola ’ , ‘ Oasis ’ and ‘ Grand Carre ’ , ‘ Card Game ’ and ‘ Tiffany ’ . |
| 18 | But I turned for home |
| 19 | I originally intended to have figured all the Psittacidae — but I stopped in time ; neither will there be — ( from me ) any letterpress . |
| 20 | But I talked to psychologist about it , and she said it 's a lot more interesting than that , what you 're forgetting is , that change is usually perceived as criticism , what 's wrong with the way we 've been doing things . |
| 21 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |
| 22 | But I found in order to get the thing moving |
| 23 | But you went on telly minutes later . |
| 24 | Yeah , but you had to sort of force him to go and take some |
| 25 | But she prayed to heaven and promised that , should she be spared , she would devote the first fruit of her womb to Christ 's service . |
| 26 | But she filed for divorce in June last year after a series of violent rows . |
| 27 | But she realised with irritation that it was n't followed by either a phone number or an address . |
| 28 | Strode married a second wife , Dennes , daughter of Stephen Vosper of Liskeard , Cornwall , on 31 March 1624 ; but she died without issue in 1635 . |
| 29 | But she died of cancer on 18 May 1991 , six weeks into the financial year . |
| 30 | Doctors battled for an hour to save 24-year-old Yasmin Akhtra , but she died in hospital . |