Example sentences of "[adv] but [adv] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They said six hundred originally apparently but then and now they 're talking four hundred . |
| 2 | A big , glossy hardback with lavish colour pictures , it is handsome enough but now that so many general cookbooks include first-class vegetarian recipes it seems an expensive extra . |
| 3 | For example , A Thousand Smiles builds quite nicely but ordinarily until out of nowhere explodes this magnificent guitar . |
| 4 | A short flight up was a landing and the stairs turned in on themselves to another short flight , which brought her to another corridor similar to the one downstairs but more than twice its length . |
| 5 | She had already met this young man , when he had last come to pay his rent , and found him startlingly different from the Welsh boys of her acquaintance — a big , silent boy with disillusioned , almond-shaped eyes sunk above high cheek bones , a boy who had stared unblinkingly at her until she had begun to blush with embarrassment , so that she had felt stripped , not only physically but mentally as well . |
| 6 | And then , with a flash of her usual impetuous spirit , ‘ She was horrible to you , not once but again and again . ’ |
| 7 | Indeed , his affections seem to have redirected themselves , platonically but more or less intact , to fair-browed Reinhard . |
| 8 | And taken seriously not only there but here as well , by critics who themselves long for success , and long too to lay bare their own poor breasts . |