Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had a proper training at the beginning of the war , but I remember later drafts coming out to us — young lads from the Lancashire cotton mills , for instance . |
| 2 | I know I went crazy at first but I got better . |
| 3 | After some days my arm began to get better , but I became sadder and angrier than before . |
| 4 | I knew this was muddled and that it was not quite what I wanted to say , but I felt better for saying it . |
| 5 | I was not only losing weight but I felt better : fitter , more alert , more vigorous . |
| 6 | But I felt better afterwards . |
| 7 | ‘ A packed five-match programme tired me but I felt stronger afterwards . |
| 8 | ‘ A packed five-match programme tired me but I felt stronger afterwards . |
| 9 | They worked OK , but I felt happier replacing them with better quality versions . |
| 10 | But I feel better already , now that I belong to such a great and good queen . ’ |
| 11 | I know there are n't any simple solutions and that you probably can not help but I feel better by just writing . |
| 12 | I do n't know , but I feel steadier . |
| 13 | I am getting thrown a little more , but I feel stronger and better with a lot more aggression . ’ |
| 14 | It 's taken us both a very long time but I feel stronger and emotionally much more stable now . |
| 15 | The water 's rapidly getting cold and the bubbles are starting to burst , but you sink lower , relax … and rat-a-tat-tat , there it goes again . |
| 16 | When we started filming she was very shy but she got better as she went along and she picked up confidence . |
| 17 | ‘ Once I tried to hurt mother , but she got better . |
| 18 | Oh erm my moth mother had it , she got but she got better with it . |
| 19 | ‘ But she feels younger , because we 've gone on living longer , ’ said Arthur . |
| 20 | But erm I went to see Liz the night before she got married and actually she had no make-up on right but she looked prettier without it , like Catherine |
| 21 | Minky can be grumpy first thing in the morning , but she looked crosser than usual . |
| 22 | But she says happier now than she 's ever been . |
| 23 | She could n't feel any direct effect from the brandy , but she felt looser and more able to talk . |
| 24 | But she presses harder … my head 's going to burst ! |
| 25 | Bicker muttered to himself as he rode in front , but they made better time for the wind had not risen and the sun was almost warm . |
| 26 | Country weavers and knitters were to become better remembered for the long sad days of their early nineteenth-century decline , but they had happier days when they consumed the products made by their fellow artisans in Burslem , Sheffield and Birmingham . |
| 27 | The fourth zone of Hautvillers vineyards are really an extension of those of Cumière but they rise higher , to an elevation of between 180 and 220 metres , and their aspect changes slightly , affording more south-facing slopes . |
| 28 | But they seemed later to moderate their stance by seeking an agreement which would let production start to rise again later in the summer . |
| 29 | Our study was not designed to address these possibilities , but they deserve further investigation . |
| 30 | We 'd have had one but they got dearer and dearer and dearer ! |