Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But mostly I imagined you asleep , left utterly to yourself in a situation where my own absence from your life did not matter : |
| 2 | But eventually I got it right , I had to — I could n't do the advanced course without the basic one under my belt . |
| 3 | But not everybody accepted its startling assumptions . |
| 4 | Editor , — It is true , as James Owen Drife points out , that it has become at least partially acceptable for women to stereotype the worst of male behaviour and make fun of it , but somehow I find it hard to feel sorry for him . |
| 5 | But clearly they prefer their English home , because all the females here have produced beautiful bouncing babies . |
| 6 | But frankly I find it bloody embarrassing ! ’ |
| 7 | Robin-Anne had been staring at the dark sea , but now she turned her big eyes back to me . |
| 8 | The Phnom Penh government has been fighting the Khmers Rouges for more than a decade , but now it needs its old enemy . |
| 9 | Kynaston had fulfilled his promise , but now he applied his diagnostic skills to the unrepining dead , whose eyes could n't implore him to offer hope , whose mouths could no longer cry out . |
| 10 | But now he wants our young men , so he is gracious . |
| 11 | And at first this beast had made a low girning , growling sound , but now he hushed his threatening , and waved his tail slowly , and the little grey man said , ‘ Otto is of the opinion that you are honest . |
| 12 | But surely she owed her beloved that honour at least , the honour of single combat , which is a dragon 's privilege . |
| 13 | I do hope it 's not the bitterness of someone who is n't logical , but sometimes it makes me emotional . |
| 14 | David says : ‘ After it finished , 18 of us from the course decided to carry on meeting but then everyone went their separate ways . |
| 15 | But then they discontinued their entire range almost overnight to concentrate on the RG540 and JEM series , having worked hard to establish some of the world 's finest players as endorsees . |
| 16 | For a moment she was rigid but then he felt her whole body suddenly relax . |
| 17 | But then I learned my new friends took drugs , and I began to take drugs , too . |
| 18 | At first it was quite sweet and enjoyable , but then I found it sickly and thick . |
| 19 | But then she saw his large , confident black writing on the card , and forgot her annoyance . |
| 20 | But then she recognised her erstwhile midwife , and by the time Fen rejoined her Robbie was enjoying a rapturous welcome — a welcome in which an indignant , ruffled Raff was sharing . |
| 21 | but how you do your original is up to you I mean it 's just what we ask for from reprographics and you know they do single sided |
| 22 | ‘ But yet he diverts his sexual energies into fighting . ’ |
| 23 | Room temperature is around about three hundred kelvins , but why we call it absolute is it , erm the lowest temperature one could ever get to is in fact designated as zero . |
| 24 | But again I found it difficult to be rude . |
| 25 | As the family grew up the wife could take a less active part in the farm work especially when the son left school but occasionally they found it difficult to settle back into a domestic routine . |