Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to one observer , there were over 200 mourners ; Gubyenko made a touching speech , but no-one shed any obvious tears . |
| 2 | We also appealed to the Government to respond to an extraordinary press conference given by the Iranian chargé d'affaires in London on the anniversary of Terry Waite 's imprisonment a few weeks ago , but no-one took much notice of that , either . |
| 3 | ‘ As far as we know they 've no reason to expect us anywhere , ’ the Leader said , but no-one believed that . |
| 4 | He said that everyone knew that clubs were involved in too many matches but no-one did much about rectifying the situation . |
| 5 | True there 'd been found in Alicia 's desk , but everyone thought that was just an accident , now they began to wonder if someone had put them there , not Alicia , Lizzie would n't do a thing like that , but somebody , it was getting near half term and new the girls were excited because some of them were expecting visits from there parents . |
| 6 | But I knew that was easier said than done . |
| 7 | I wanted to be alone with him , but I knew that was n't possible . |
| 8 | It could have been an accident , but I knew that was hardly likely , not with the file missing . |
| 9 | But I knew this was wishing for the impossible . |
| 10 | But I knew this was a vain hope because the house was always locked securely . |
| 11 | But I knew this was not always the case . |
| 12 | We sparkled with energy , but I struck few sparks . |
| 13 | The arrival of Deacon Billingsley should have given me the satisfaction that my telephone call had been treated seriously , but I sensed this policeman was not going to offer me any satisfaction at all . |
| 14 | erm But I raised this at the alcohol forum , because erm sometime this summer I had a phone call from Mr Bailey here , who is a resident of East Oxford , to express his concern about various problems erm in East Oxford , problems that were posed to residents there . |
| 15 | But I summoned all my German and asked the maestro if I could do it myself . |
| 16 | ‘ I spent a lot of time attending to it , but I ran all the way , which is good enough , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , but I brought some in earlier ; it 's in that bucket there , and there 's peat there , too , and it 's dry . |
| 18 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 19 | But I took some better ones . |
| 20 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
| 21 | Did n't , ah but I touched that one . |
| 22 | I was surprised to learn that my claim could not be backdated , but I wrote those first three weeks ' money off to inexperience . |
| 23 | it 's still a but it 's a different camp , but I wrote this time because what he tells us I forget , I do n't know if you 'll be able to read it or not so |
| 24 | but I heard that er , you did n't know that |
| 25 | ‘ You 've made your point , but I heard all these objections at the veterinary congress . |
| 26 | But I received another note from Mellowes ; it said I was not to leave the office ; I was not to answer the phone ; above all I was not to speak to the press . |
| 27 | And they put these chilies in my garlic bread , the peppers rather , but I ate all my peppers , and Charlotte could n't eat theirs . |
| 28 | But I saw that time was much more like the growth of Mary 's reputation , devious and ambiguous , than it was like the straight line , moving remorselessly forward , which Western thought has forced it to prefigure . |
| 29 | The only common factor was Mrs Marcia Williams ( now Lady Falkender ) , his private and political secretary , of whom I saw very little , but I saw enough of her to realise the immense influence she exercised over Harold Wilson . |
| 30 | And your totems have the same names as my masks , but I made those names up ! |