Example sentences of "but finally " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody seems to have explained this to her , but finally she understands . |
| 2 | She later shows her mettle as a clog dancer abetted by four pretty girls , tries to set her cap at Father Thomas , but finally realises she can not frustrate true love and dances out happily with the rest . |
| 3 | Everybody in ‘ our town ’ feels indignant about the insult to the respected old gentleman , and a proposal gets off the ground to give a subscription dinner in his honour ; but finally ‘ we ’ think better of it , ‘ perhaps realizing at last that a man had , after all , been pulled by the nose , so there really was n't any cause for a celebration . ’ |
| 4 | But finally , in spite of their common roots in Satie and Stein , Thomson felt that Cage 's aesthetic was destructive . |
| 5 | Often the wonderful natural natural story-teller in Walker breaks through the marshmallow and has us on the edge of the chair , but finally and lamentably this is a failure . |
| 6 | Omnibus chronicled all this with exemplary thoroughness but finally elided the real aesthetic questions — of a battle between art that invites the viewer to think and art that passes through the mind leaving only a sugary trace of complacent pleasure . |
| 7 | We shall turn to these three themes shortly , but finally the relatively smooth course of Russian-Belorussian collaboration during NEP should be underlined . |
| 8 | He served with the 3rd Battalion of the Scots Guards during the war , but finally , in 1947 , he was able to fulfil his long-cherished ambition to savour company life . |
| 9 | And secondly , the defeat of the last major challenge to the system associated with the overdetermined name of ‘ 1968 ’ but finally petering out in the mid-1970s . |
| 10 | But finally President Gorbachev sent two children , one of whom , Yalya Butko , aged eight , got an award . |
| 11 | Quoting Bertrand Russell 's dictum that if you hold unorthodox opinions in England you will be disregarded at first , persecuted if you persist , but finally canonised if you live long enough , he comments : ‘ having experienced the first two stages , I seem to be approaching the third . ’ |
| 12 | Emily was reluctant but finally relented , agreeing to make a five-minute detour . |
| 13 | Dundee United 2 St Johnstone 1 A RARE goal from Dave Bowman gave Dundee United their first win in four attempts this season against their Tayside rivals in a game which started well but finally provided poor entertainment for the crowd . |
| 14 | The 1988 Scottish Grand National winner Mighty Mark has been missing engagements since the start of the season but finally appeared at Corbridge where he trotted up in the Open . |
| 15 | The harried men tried to keep order but finally gave up and let us take over . |
| 16 | Clive spilled some of the powder as he heaped it in the spoon , and could not hold it steady over his lighter flame , but finally he got it liquefied . |
| 17 | Tubbs and Lewis ran the mill for some time but finally ceased production there . |
| 18 | One Y6 thought vaguely about inviting Michael Jackson but finally plumped for the local third-division full-back who lived just down the road . |
| 19 | Despite his crippling disease , he had still managed to practise psychiatry with some success ; but finally , the progressive nature of his condition meant that he needed treatment in an intensive care unit with 24-hour-a-day supervision , breathing only with the aid of a respirator . |
| 20 | But finally there is something else , as the winner begins to seize his opportunities . |
| 21 | The butler hesitated , casting a malignant look at Sausage , who was quietly gnawing the mat , but finally showed her into the drawing-room where the whole family was having tea . |
| 22 | But finally there was a victory , a quiet one in his own breast , and something like the elevation of disdain over stupidity and meanness , and rest after the long battle . |
| 23 | Daniel took more persuading than she had expected , but finally agreed to spare an hour later in the morning . |
| 24 | Madeleine was reluctant , but finally agreed . |
| 25 | She was persuaded to do this , some tactful excuse having been found ; but finally it appeared in the year of her death , and her last letter to me acknowledged it . |
| 26 | But finally the itching was too much for him and we got up one morning to find plaster of Paris and remnants of bandage all over the carpet where he had irritably scissored it off at two in the morning . |
| 27 | They had a son Cameron , 11 , but finally parted in 1986 after she accused him of giving her black eyes . |
| 28 | He did what he could to motivate himself in adverse circumstances , but finally decided he would be better off racing on his own . |
| 29 | Reed delayed filming his scenes in the hope that Brando might change his mind , but finally he gave up and quit . |
| 30 | But finally , why is it that game show contestants are never UNEMPLOYED ? |