Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [adv] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | whether that means anything to people who live in Bishop 's Stortford but I 've always lived in Chelmsford and people who wore their hat sort of at a flaunty angle on the back of their heads were always seem to wearing their hats in the Hollywood fashion . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm on a short lease but I 've never discussed in personally with the prince at any stage . |
| 3 | Moments and impressions from this great desert of time remain with me but I have long forgotten in which part of it they occurred . |
| 4 | I have debated several prayers over the years , but I have never participated in a debate in which the points made by the Labour party were so bogus . |
| 5 | But you 'd better bear in mind , I 've been worked-over and walked over by experts . |
| 6 | But she had only checked in a very recent volume . |
| 7 | But she does now dress in a way that pays attention to the mood of the moment for quieter , softer clothes . |
| 8 | Kate smiled and shook hands , but she felt wildly overdressed in her velvet suit and suede boots . |
| 9 | The price was about the only thing about the house that was right , but we 'd both fallen in love with it right away . |
| 10 | I had not met him socially before , but we had once clashed in court when he was counsel representing the police at the Brabin Inquiry into the Timothy Evans case . |
| 11 | Revealed Serevi : ‘ It is very wet , but we have often played in worse than this back in Fiji . |
| 12 | But one had already suffocated in the plastic bag by the time they were found by a passer by . |
| 13 | The smaller companies took ( and paid for ) the network programmes , and contributed a modest share , but they had no say in programming decisions . |
| 14 | ‘ My parents thought a schoolmaster 's salary was riches , but they had always lived in very humble circumstances . |
| 15 | But they had always kept in touch , by letter and occasionally by telephone , though recently Caro 's calls had come either from work or from a public kiosk . |
| 16 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
| 17 | DOWN may or may not have meant it but they have certainly succeeded in providing Derry with an extra incentive to triumph in next Sunday 's Ulster championship glamour tie . |
| 18 | But he had already performed in the horse box on the way to the fete — and there was no way he was going to do it again . |
| 19 | Now I 'd not seen his work before , that 's partly because I 'm in Brighton and not in London and do n't get up that often perhaps , but he has hardly shown in England , whereas he 's very well known in Europe , using Europe for the Continent . |
| 20 | Because of this , the system is rarely used now , but it does still exist in some older houses . |
| 21 | At one stage ( 12–7kyr ago ) Lake Suguta covered an area of 2,000km 2 and reached depths of more than 300m , but it has since desiccated in response to an increasingly arid climate . |
| 22 | This second collapse has produced a new trade union militancy and a growing influence of re-established or new socialist parties , but it has also engendered in several countries a fervent nationalism , so far most intense in Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union where it has led to military confrontations . |
| 23 | This has undoubtedly led to the enrichment of specific rural and urban groups in the Third World , those who have successfully adapted to the changing demands of the global marketplace , but it has also resulted in many Third World countries losing their original self-sufficiency in food and becoming highly dependent on food imports from the First World . |
| 24 | But it 's only happened in the last five years . |