Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] with but " in BNC.

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1 And the peedie fairy was just delighted to start with but soon realized that there was something kind of fishy going on and it was n't a very happy place .
2 They are strong and reasonably easy to work with but do n't always produce natural looking ponds .
3 Q , W , E , R become C , D , E , F and S , D , F become G , A and B. Slightly awkward to start with but within a very short space of time you perform these operation without looking .
4 The first two are normally fairly straightforward to deal with but the last two can be more difficult and sometimes fraught with very real problems .
5 and er it was n't bad , the snow was n't very good to start with but it snowed on the Thursday and then we , you know , we skied quite a bit after that , but poor girl she got sciatica on the Wednesday
6 ‘ All this sounded very nice to start with but now I am beginning to wonder , ’ he added .
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