Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [noun] but [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks therapeutic in movies but it made me feel worse than ever . |
| 2 | Maureen said that her mother seemed free of pain but he warned her it could return at any moment . |
| 3 | I thought coming forward Leeds played brill on saturday but they still looked a bit lazy and complacent at the back ( esp . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , as this book points out , some of the alternatives may look good on paper but they have a long way to go before they can match the tokamak . |
| 5 | OLIVER Cromwell may be the local boy made good in Huntingdon but he is still unmentionable in Drogheda , as Lady Antonia Fraser recalled in a Lenten talk at Our Lady of Victories , west London . |
| 6 | He was saying sorry on Tuesday but you could n't fault him here , ’ said Lions boss Mick McCarthy . |
| 7 | At half-time it looked bad for Town but they came bouncing back with two goals in a minute … |
| 8 | I had seen " choking " horses — the dry choke when the gullet becomes impacted with food but they did n't look like this . |