Example sentences of "but [pron] [noun] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I 'd killed him , but my dread was replaced by fear as he began to come round . |
| 2 | I desperately tried to draw my sword but my belly was churning with such fear that I was unable to grasp the hilt . |
| 3 | I tried to pull myself out but my foot was caught in some branches and the current squashed the canoe hard up against me , allowing me no movement . |
| 4 | It is a big bridal veil , but my picture was taken from a long way off . |
| 5 | I 'm not , but my brother 's going to Austria this weekend |
| 6 | The gardens outside my window are bowing down to the heat of the afternoon , but my mind is racing in this stillness , like a dust devil on the apparently windless plains . |
| 7 | I looked as if I was reading the paper , but my mind was going over the events at Ingard House , and the curious discrepancy in the stories about Andrew Stavanger . |
| 8 | I tried to get up but my legs were pulled from under me and I was kicked by my opponent . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I wanted to see you two days ago , sir , but my plane was grounded by storms . |
| 10 | We entered the room and Mum began to look round , but my eyes were drawn to the bed . |
| 11 | I saw white wool carpets on the gleaming floor and also glimpsed clothing of the costliest taffeta , lace and cambric , but my eyes were drawn to the great silk-draped four-poster bed . |
| 12 | Now in that room at Fontainebleau so many years ago , I studied Francis but my eyes were drawn to that bloody ring which sparkled on the fourth finger of his left hand . |
| 13 | But my strategy was to keep in mind the long-term situation … . |
| 14 | ‘ But my soul is steeped in the blackest sin . ’ |
| 15 | This report had partially blamed the armed forces for the massacre [ see p. 38677 ] , but its findings were described by a February Amnesty International report as " unacceptable and fatally flawed " . |
| 16 | Easter , however , was not only a movable feast but its incidence was calculated on different dating systems by the Celtic and Roman churches . |
| 17 | The House of Lords may be an irritant , but its powers are restricted by the Parliament Acts . |
| 18 | But its members are thought to be waiting to see what its British equivalent comes up with . |
| 19 | The Labour Party began its own Book Service at the end of 1939 in an attempt to provide the alternative , but its efforts were hindered by the war and could not attract a fraction of the readership achieved by the Left Book Club . |
| 20 | So far as one of its most important components was concerned , early opera developed pari passu with solo song , but its evolution was controlled by other factors . |
| 21 | Attempts were made to disperse the stone throwers with a water cannon , but its progress was halted by a barricade ; police trying to clear the obstruction returned fire with stones which had been thrown at them . |
| 22 | Solland is now part of Wissenland and Drakwald is divided between Nordland and Middenland , but its memory is preserved in the name of the Drakwald forest . |
| 23 | But its limits are exposed by asking a simple question : why , then , should Mr Lawson not be quite happy to see the deficit get even larger ? |
| 24 | But its tip was jammed between two planks of the stage and it stood up , gently flexing . |
| 25 | The Third Republic had survived the Great War of 1914–18 but its institutions were blamed by many for the humiliation of 1940 . |
| 26 | As Dr Berg has put it : " Certainly the home market grew in the eighteenth century , but its expansion was based on changing social relations and not on a national trend of rising living standards . " |
| 27 | For the most part the rule of recognition is not stated , but its existence is shown in the way in which particular rules are identified , either by courts or other officials or private persons or their advisers … |
| 28 | This is a major task , but its importance is affirmed by the attention feminists in general , and Marxist-feminists in particular , are giving to the problem of women 's place in the class system . |
| 29 | With the passing of Law and Long there were no Unionists in the cabinet who had both authority and detachment ; the link had been broken , but its importance was demonstrated with devastating effect when both intervened to influence the events of October 1922 . |
| 30 | A young red deer puts on weight at a considerable rate during its first summer , but its growth is reduced to less than half of this rate during the winter . |