Example sentences of "[be] [adj] but [pron] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke may have been popular but he never plucked up courage to get the girl of his dreams . |
| 2 | We knew it would be late but we still hurried through the waking village , across the fields , past the hospital and along the railway track to Raxaul station . |
| 3 | The ostensible objectives of SWAP were scientific but they also allowed for mischief . |
| 4 | The floor tiles were cold but she hardly noticed as she tiptoed to the door and looked into the kitchen . |
| 5 | I left early before the nuns were awake but I only got as far as Glasgow before I lost my way . ’ |
| 6 | How long Penda remained in the territory of the northern Angles is unknown but he probably returned swiftly to Mercia to secure himself as king . |
| 7 | Ah now you think about it , I mean there was this question in our maths test and I was chatting to him in the dinner queue about it and I was going yeah it was this and he goes oh you 're probably right and he was agreeing with me and I found out later that I was wrong but he still agreed with me . |
| 8 | His knowledge of the Bible was minimal but he soon made up for it . |
| 9 | Compared to the influence of personal partisan prejudice the influence of the media on economic perceptions was small but it also increased towards the end of the campaign , especially amongst Labour readers of right-wing papers . |
| 10 | It was alright but I just hoped that there was n't much more of it . |