Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] but [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only that but when we found the mattress we were searching for , one corner had been completely eaten away . |
| 2 | Once the drip was up and the monitor was on I was much less mobile but as I gained confidence I learnt how to put the monitor back on if it stopped working when I moved . |
| 3 | I felt so sad but if I had gone there and seen her , how would I have felt ? |
| 4 | They were naturally thrilled but when she told her brother Charles of her marriage plans at their mother 's London apartment he wisecracked : ‘ Who to ? ’ |
| 5 | yeah , not so , so confident but if you do n't make the attempt |
| 6 | ‘ farmers do not make the best Group Organisers : not because they are less effective but because they have insufficient time ’ ( this from seven respondents ) |
| 7 | Many firms find that the implementation process is not merely complex but that it amplifies strains in the internal politics . |
| 8 | What persuades Quine , however , is not that his examples are so convincing but that he knows that there must be some examples , and these look like the best candidates . |
| 9 | There are times when making a certain promise ( say to look after a friend 's child if the friend dies before the child comes of age ) are morally worthwhile but where one does not have an obligation to make them ( remember that in this example too one may find other adequate ways to help one 's friend ) . |
| 10 | I 've learnt a lot of things — how to bath a baby , feed a baby , it sounds dead simple but when you get that baby in your hands you 're shaking . |
| 11 | I 've no idea how much they cost , but whatever 's left over will go towards the kitchen scissors — rather mundane I know but one of those things that 's not exactly necessary but once you 've got it you ca n't do without ! |
| 12 | It is likely that certain crimes have increased not because people have become more dishonest but because it has become easier to commit such crimes . |
| 13 | It does n't make them more adventurous but when they do climb you can see them looking for footholds . |
| 14 | For our part , we wish to step back from philosophical issues , not because they are totally irrelevant but because we believe that it is not necessary , from a sociological research point of view , to take them up . |
| 15 | Okay , so when you come to look at these videos , okay , slightly exaggerated but if you go down to court , and you might like to go down to the hall or somewhere locally , you 'll actually find that there are advocates who do what did deliberately wrong and what did deliberately wrong . |
| 16 | I replied that I was convinced not only that she was now dead but that she had died on the day you wrote to me … |
| 17 | I felt sickly occasionally but I felt really happy throughout my pregnancy.I used to be quite shy but since I found out I was pregnant I felt very confident in myself . |
| 18 | Are quite high but when you come down then you same size . |
| 19 | To confuse the order of these levels or to omit one or more of them is dangerous — not because our faith is then invalid but because it does not rest on the strongest available foundations . |
| 20 | The rasping noise was quite upsetting but when he did n't make it I gently shook him to make him breathe again and I did n't feel that I could relax , let alone sleep , for one minute . |
| 21 | things were looking good some of the players were a little disappointed but if they win next week that 's three points from four which is n't a bad start |
| 22 | What he 's talking about and this is the same erm same councillor who was talking about living harmoniously side by side those that have are are buying them , those that are renting them but what he 's actually saying is well I 'm actually very , very sorry but if you have n't a job , if you have n't an income or you 're income is so low , just go over there and stay away from us decent chaps with lots of cash . |
| 23 | Dogs , like men , can look very different but when it comes to sex they all know that they are members of one species and they are not culturally inhibited from taking appropriate action . |
| 24 | And for those who liked to go to the office every morning by the 8.15 there were class rooms and classes where nobody learnt very much but where everybody thought they were doing something . |
| 25 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 26 | Danish invaders found their way to Lough Neagh between AD 849 and AD 1014 but whether they came up the Bann is uncertain . |
| 27 | I understand that feeling because we have had to do things that are counter intuitive and very difficult but unless we had driven inflation out of the system we would not have provided a proper platform for secure long term growth . |
| 28 | The dress is very nice but once I 've got it on I realize I 'm just not in the mood for it . |
| 29 | Well I did think about it but the Careers Officer advised me no cos he thought that you have to be really really good before y get in and he asked me if I thought I was really good and I said that well I was not too bad but and he said that he thought it would be better to concentrate on something else . |