Example sentences of "but [pron] [adj -est] [noun] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wife , who had never left her place , waved as she left , but my greatest reward was in the last shadowy glimpse of the back seat where little arms twined around the dog , hugging him ecstatically , and in the cries , thankful and joyous , fading into the night . |
| 2 | I have erm one daughter living here and a son living here but my eldest daughter is in the United States and my granddaughter is just finishing her last year of law . |
| 3 | But its biggest impact was within the offices of Event itself . |
| 4 | Eva and Esther were prominent in campaigns on behalf of pit brow workers , flower-sellers , and barmaids , but their greatest success was in attracting large numbers of women from the working class to the suffrage movement . |
| 5 | But his best work is in the past , whereas Greene kept up a continuous output over many years — there 's nobody like that now . |
| 6 | But his greatest achievement was in the study of mathematics and logic with his paper , The Relation between the Logical Theory of Classes and the Geometrical Theory of Points ( 1890 ) , which anticipated and even extended arguments later propounded by Bertrand ( third Earl ) Russell [ q.v. ] in The Principles of Mathematics ( 1903 ) . |
| 7 | On his brief visit to Cambodia he met Dith Pran for the first time , but his longest stretch was from the beginning of January 1975 until the fall of Phnom Penh in April of that year . |