Example sentences of "but i [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DRDOS seems to have drivers only for 286 and upwards machines but I eventually got EMM.SYS which was also to be found locked away in my ROM and got the machine to recognise the expanded memory . |
| 2 | But I also had charges that was nothing to do with me . |
| 3 | So but I also coaxed Mrs about the Wandsbergh . |
| 4 | So , but I also approached Mrs Earl about a . |
| 5 | I knew I had to go back to hospital but I just had time to see my mother and sister off and to help my father close up grandmother 's house and to see uncle Henry take her off to the station , with destination Somerset . |
| 6 | But I always thought cleanliness was next to Godliness , |
| 7 | But I always had books to read and pictures to paint and it was lovely in the summer when those theatrical people from London came down and put on all those Shakespearian plays out-of-doors on the cliffs . |
| 8 | But I always spoke English with Mum , and I went to an English school in Athens . |
| 9 | ‘ But I always voted Conservative . ’ |
| 10 | I had published several small books myself , but I always lost money . |
| 11 | There is nothing more tedious for the teacher than to hear one of his best students saying , after the examination : ‘ Oh , I did very well , but I only had time to answer half the paper . ’ |
| 12 | But I accidentally hit Jason full on the jaw so hard that I knocked him over . |
| 13 | ‘ I knew all about calories , but I really enjoyed food and found it difficult to lost weight ! |
| 14 | But I never thought Lamont would freak like that . |
| 15 | But I never heard Trevor embarrass anyone , even if he 'd had one or two . |
| 16 | ‘ But I never felt remorse about them the same way I did about him . |
| 17 | When he first got made redundant he got earnings-related dole , about £7 for himself , but I never had money of my own . |
| 18 | ‘ All that breeds insecurity but I never received stick from the crowd . ’ |
| 19 | But I never developed symbols for whammy bars and screaming dive bombs or scraping the strings . |
| 20 | ‘ My father was a white-collar dental worker , we lived in a council house sure , but I never knew hunger or deprivation ever ! |
| 21 | Not so long since I was in here myself , but I never dreamed Willis had not quite known what to bring , so he 'd decided on a packet of Whiffs . |
| 22 | Blind and foolish I confess myself , but I never willed evil against this house , and I abase myself in acknowledgement of the wrong done , and ask forgiveness . |
| 23 | But I still had doubts about giving up my job at Lloyds insurance firm , so for another year ( they were yearly contracts then ) I was allowed to keep the job , training two nights a week and playing in the reserves . |
| 24 | I felt like I 'd been kicked by a camel but I still needed food , so I polished off the eclair , belched with all the decorum I could , and started eyeing up a Danish pastry . |
| 25 | Erm , but I certainly found anti-depressants helpful . |