Example sentences of "but [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing for it but to pretend it had all been as Aunt Emily would have wished it to be . |
| 2 | She glowered at the television crew who were filming them , but realised they had no idea she was grimacing ferociously , so she returned to sipping champagne through the straw . |
| 3 | A key witness at the Paul Sheldon murder trial pointed at his two alleged attackers in Court today but admitted he 'd failed to recognise them in police identity parades . |
| 4 | Jones , married with an 18 month-old daughter , was adamant last night that he wants to regain his Test spot , but admitted he felt trapped financially . |
| 5 | I trusted Carradine because he was different , but trusting him led to mistrusting everyone else . |
| 6 | But change they did , and quite radically . |
| 7 | Both Gloucestershire and West Mercia police admit they 're short of money and manpower , but say they had no alternative . |
| 8 | He did everything , Toby felt , but say he had a spiffing wheeze . |
| 9 | Yes , but say he reappeared , and Aldhelm never came . |
| 10 | They admit he 'd been in trouble before but say he did n't deserve to die this way . |
| 11 | ‘ But say you had to do it all over again . |
| 12 | No , but say you did get one though |
| 13 | But to find her meant giving him the slip , and she had n't been too successful at that the last time . |
| 14 | They accept the goal of an enterprise economy , but want it tempered by social concerns , with a place for worker-ownership . |
| 15 | In the latest they were called to the home of a man in his early 20s in Frenchgate , Richmond , but found they needed more equipment so took him back to the Richmond Fire Station and released the cuffs with a hacksaw and vice . |
| 16 | I put my chin up and tried to stiffen my upper lip , but found I did n't seem to have any muscles in it . |
| 17 | Wendy Almon went to pick up two-year-old Eva , but found she 'd been abducted |
| 18 | She had originally intended to resell them but found she had grown attached to them and had built shelves in her sitting-room . |
| 19 | Those books Thérèse read too but pretended she did n't because then she 'd have to go to confession about them and spell out exactly what she 'd thought . |
| 20 | When I talked to members of the 1964 pie committee in 1986 it was still not certain if and when this pie would appear , but appear it did as the l988 ‘ bicentenary pie ’ . |
| 21 | Mr Athulathmudali 's bodyguard said he had shot at the assassin , but believed he had missed . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't until I met you , but loving you made me want to know how twins could be so different . |
| 23 | Tanya Lake has just passed PE2 , first time as with all her exams , but says it came as no surprise to her when her audit partner at Chantrey Vellacott told her that her contract would not be renewed . |
| 24 | Sir Peter Walters , a former chairman of BP who now heads Midland Bank and Blue Circle , kept a row of management books behind his desk in Britannic House , but says he read them ‘ primarily for entertainment , rather as I would a novel ’ . |
| 25 | No , it was n't the first time , but remembering what had happened previously , how he had kissed her and , worst of all , how she had responded , she knew it was the last place she would have chosen when she needed to keep a clear head ! |
| 26 | Even the cash-flow predictions they cared about so much were nothing to her but answers she wanted ticked . |
| 27 | You two and Philippe Maurin pretended to be her friends , but look what happened to her . ’ |
| 28 | I was never the focus of an actual focused ill-wishing , merely a bit part player in Bernard 's drama , but look what happened to me ! |
| 29 | They did not know whether it cleared because people had left voluntarily , or because people had been evicted , but clear it did . |
| 30 | Once back upstairs in the box , he could not leave the mystery alone and his mind conjured up all sorts of solutions but analysing them brought no relief . |