Example sentences of "but [pron] [noun] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I desperately tried to draw my sword but my belly was churning with such fear that I was unable to grasp the hilt . |
| 2 | I 'm not , but my brother 's going to Austria this weekend |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Parents are now having second thoughts : ‘ I 've heard people saying they would n't have chosen to put their children in school , but their friends were going for it and they were afraid they would miss out , ’ she said . |
| 6 | But their magnetism was beginning to be challenged as early as 1953 by Marilyn Monroe , playing the busty gold-digger , Lorelei Lee , in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes alongside Jane Russell , whose bust , supported by a specially cantilevered bra designed by her master Howard Hughes , was the most noticeable asset she had . |
| 7 | Alien conspiracies and kidnaps , and why some people believe that not only have UFOs landed , but their passengers are living under the Nevada desert |
| 8 | Theda managed an answering smile , but her heart was thumping like a drum . |
| 9 | It was easy to obey the lieutenant 's command to keep her head down and say nothing , but her heart was thundering by the time they reached the relative safety of the airfield 's terminal building . |
| 10 | She would have liked to refuse his offer , she really would , but her stomach was growling with hunger and the thought of nothing in it till the morning was more than she could bear . |
| 11 | There were several shepherds out there carrying loads of hay on pitchforks , but her father was working with them , his wrappings of leather and tweed and sacking indistinguishable from theirs , his voice as thick and soft , his movements every bit as practised . |
| 12 | But her hands were gripping into fists . |
| 13 | She had been badly hurt some time ago , but her body was dealing with that . |
| 14 | But his views were dismaying to one of the readers of his discourses , the poet and artist William Blake . |
| 15 | But his mother was staring at him strangely . |
| 16 | Nuadu stayed where he was , but his mind was tumbling with horror and revulsion . |
| 17 | His tone was smooth and teasing , but his eyes were glittering with a disturbing light . |
| 18 | He might have insisted , ‘ You can never recreate the feeling of winning for the first time , ’ but his palms were sweating with anticipation as the tapes went up . |
| 19 | But what Jesus was referring to was not the material kingdom , but the spiritual kingdom . |
| 20 | On the debit side we have dropped one day on the calving interval to 376 days , although not a disaster we had been trying to improve that but our heifers are calving at 28 months instead of two years three months . |
| 21 | ‘ We 're grateful to Guisborough for allowing us to share their ground , but our fixtures are coinciding with theirs and we have to rearrange some of them . ’ |