Example sentences of "but [noun] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I first came up from Balclutha , Hilda said what I needed first was a good wife but Jan here said what I needed first was a couple of good horses . ’ |
| 2 | But Hayek also roots his theory in social evolutionary ideas . |
| 3 | I know but Corrinne never cleans it ! |
| 4 | A large , ungainly and abrasive man , he was not the sort of material to make the grade in the SAS in the normal way , but Stirling obviously had his reasons for taking him on . |
| 5 | Had either realized her knack of manipulating it might have been a different story , but Sarah never allowed her determination to show . |
| 6 | If friends are foolhardy but kind enough to let you loose in their gardens , it is a very nice idea to make them a small picture from some of the flowers you have gathered and subsequently pressed . |
| 7 | Daphne tended to phone her just after six , which meant missing fifteen or twenty minutes of the news , but Cecilia never said anything about this because she would far rather miss the news than hurt Daphne . |
| 8 | When we emerged we found the neighbours still standing around discussing what had happened , but Mum just pushed her way through them without a word . |
| 9 | But Mum just gave them one of her black looks and elbowed her way past the two women and went into Granny 's house . |
| 10 | I remember terrible arguments when shopping for shoes — I wanted to have fashion shoes ( high heels , pointed toes ) like my friends , but Mum always made me have sensible shoes . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , I know , ’ said Constance , ‘ but Mum always fed it to the cat . |
| 12 | Politicians come and go , but Whitehall still retains its hold on power . |
| 13 | But Wilde also fashioned his transgressive aesthetic into a celebration of anarchic deviance , and this is yet another factor which makes it difficult to identify the sensibility involved . |
| 14 | The interruption was sardonic , but Isabel merely shook her head , intent on finishing before he cut her off again . |
| 15 | But Jim really hurt her because erm when she was going out with him he was a virgin and then erm they came back , you notice things were a bit sort of sort of on the rocks when they came back at first ? |
| 16 | But Lawson then covers his back : ‘ For a time I was concerned that I might have made the wrong choice as Chief Secretary — a view I suspect was shared by John Major himself . ’ |
| 17 | Just stay here ! ’ but Jean just told him to shut his big gob . |
| 18 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 19 | But David really liked them . |
| 20 | Works were initially chosen from the Pushkin and Hermitage but Ortiz then widened his horizons to include regional museums , an unprecedented step which was then complicated by the collapse of the Soviet regime . |
| 21 | She appears not to have worshipped alongside her husband at the chapel ; he was a full member , and his daughters would later follow in his footsteps , but Ann never committed herself in quite that way . |
| 22 | She took her hand away , but Edward only replaced it . |
| 23 | The conductor was babbling on good-naturedly about long train journeys but Donna scarcely heard what he said . |
| 24 | Mrs talked about four , we 've actually agreed that there should be more homes on the list than four er for prospective refurbishment and Mr has stood up and protested that he did not produce the figures , but Professor still says you will produce figures for this and you will produce figures for that , none of us do that we all get our figures from the same place but we all get inconsistent figures . |
| 25 | He must always believe the things she told him about other people , especially those in his father 's family , but Frankie sometimes found her instructions very hard to understand . |
| 26 | The latter had been scrapped by the Supreme Council upon its declaration of independence , but Gorbachev now ordered it to be restored . |
| 27 | But Woolhouse yesterday insisted he was still chairman . |
| 28 | But Cohn-Casson also found it impossible to side uncritically with Jews , because to do so would deny modern thinking , by placing tribal loyalties above the mandates of science . |
| 29 | It may all sound like some vague hippy philosophy but Levitation really believe what they say . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll walk with you , ’ Marianne offered promptly , but Josh firmly shook his head . |