Example sentences of "a [noun] but [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the new Protagon , the tennis racket which sounds like a drug but which plays like an old friend , the loyal doubles partner who helps you to cope with the important things in life , things like how to fox the club champion who usually knocks you off without ever getting out of auto pilot mode . |
| 2 | Kezia refused a sandwich but she smiled at Annabel , and — I could hardly believe it — Annabel curtsied . |
| 3 | ’ It was n't a question but it sounded like one . |
| 4 | I was a fool but nobody impressed on me the need to save . |
| 5 | If we have no reason to slim , if no one cares whether we slim or not , or if we feel we are trying hard on a diet but nothing seems to be happening , no wonder we get fed up . |
| 6 | He stood and watched for a while but everything connected with seamanship is so majestically slow that he began to feel guilty of time wasting while the little vessel was still being manoeuvred through the gap . |
| 7 | His father , Keith , said : ‘ He was in terrible shock for a while but he seems to be getting back to his normal self . ’ |
| 8 | King of the Slums manage as much social comment in a dozen songs as others do in a decade but they belong among bands that eschew political persuasion in favour of chronicling the lives of the despairing or dispossessed , the people for whom political solutions have failed . |
| 9 | Never a day but you think of |
| 10 | Yet this contrasted oddly with his sloppy clothes , his bare knees and hairy legs , for he seemed to see nothing peculiar about a doctor who behaved like a gentleman but who looked like a beachcomber . |
| 11 | I do n't act like a man but I play in a man 's world . |
| 12 | Now if if the management at home heard me doing this of course er giving you a choice but I believe in it . |
| 13 | ‘ She 's a flirt but he dotes on her . |
| 14 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez' A Hundred Years of Solitude also begins with a childhood but it engages with a quite different feeling : |
| 15 | I did n't advertise for a partner but I went to the single 's and divorcee club and met my second husband and its magic the second time around . |
| 16 | Vernon Malcolm , managing director of Malcolm Engineering , said : ‘ Almost all my staff earn above £3.40 an hour but I need to be able to dictate my own rates of pay . |
| 17 | Our chief executive , Petre Sefton , is not an accountant but she comes from a commercial organisation , so she is not fettered in any way by preconceived notions about the profession . |
| 18 | Blanche 's antennae were very sensitive at gauging the progress of an investigation but she relied on Dexter to hoover up male gossip that was beyond her reach , idle chatter in the canteen or the gents ' toilet that sometimes hardened into hostility or resentment at some way a case was being handled . |
| 19 | There is no rigid rule of English law which renders a minor incapable of giving his consent to an operation but there seems to be no direct judicial authority establishing that the consent of such a person is valid . |