Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For I have news of great moment to report , viz. that on Friday last by a night when the moon shone but weakly we had intelligence that our neighbours in this land were embarked upon a most fiendish and treacherous Enterprise , namely to do every man among us fatal harm while we were still sleeping in our beds . |
| 2 | The Unix festival , UniForum ‘ 93 , did n't feel as successful a show as it was last year : it was spread out over a lot more acreage and split into two widely separated pavilions , and attendance looked sparse and the aisles empty despite show management 's claims of a 10% increase in traffic — like as not , it was talking about the pre-registration which was up , but unofficially we hear attendance was down ; UniForum is still more a Unix celebration than anything else but it remains to be seen whether there will still be things to celebrate or whether erosion has set in . |
| 3 | You might get a real bad one and then you had a rough time but mostly they gave way and very often , if you got a drunk , another policeman saw you were having some difficulty . |
| 4 | A plane cabin tries to fool you with the same set-up , but suddenly it meets turbulence , bumps and jolts , and three hundred of you sit there thinking of the drop beneath . |
| 5 | Five patients had had a postmortem examination but only one showed evidence of asthma . |
| 6 | But gradually he gained confidence . |
| 7 | erm potentially , in a rich soil , in a wide range of erm crops , of course , coffee , cotton , tea , especially have been export earners in the past , but also they produce sugar and erm basic foodstuffs . |
| 8 | But also they have guest speakers , so there 's motivational stuff there which you always will need in sales , yes , and also the awards . |
| 9 | Burun loves power , but also he desires order in the land and so he will protect me . |
| 10 | But now they face eviction and the prospect of unemployment . |
| 11 | Bangers and mash is said to be the thing many newly converted vegetarians miss , but now they need pine no longer . |
| 12 | I would have liked to see rosenthal , but now we have deane ( and the rest ) I cant see the point . |
| 13 | But if you , if you look at a B two it makes sense , I mean I 've looked at B two 's and I have n't really understood what the one 's two 's and three's are for but now it makes sense to me so people who are B two makes more sense to them to know what |
| 14 | Water colours and oil paints took over , but now he prefers computer programs as a creative outlet . |
| 15 | The lord abbot here has been good enough to admit me to his confidence so far as is appropriate , since I was a witness of what happened this morning , but now you have cause to enquire further , as I understand . |
| 16 | At one time I thought Tatyana may have done it , but now I have evidence it was someone else . ’ |
| 17 | I still have dark days , but now I have hope and I know that the Lord will keep me safe . |
| 18 | But now I play tennis like a true professional . |
| 19 | But ineluctably it gains acceptance . |
| 20 | Learning a language is essentially an individual process , but typically it takes place in the social context of the classroom . |
| 21 | It risks , however , giving the impression that what matters is not the quality of life as we each experience it in our individual consciousness , but simply what takes place in some objective world — which seems a betrayal of the whole point of utilitarianism . |
| 22 | But even I like Suede . |
| 23 | In 1968 Nixon won the Presidential election , on his promise to end the war , but even he wanted victory for America and would not withdraw until this had been achieved . |
| 24 | But even he needs help , for it is not easy to grab an insect or pluck a dangling fruit if you have a couple of half-grown babies on your back . |
| 25 | In church they kept to their own groups , but here they jostled shoulder to shoulder , watchful and sulky . |
| 26 | At Avenue Foch they used physical hurt to break their prisoners , but here they used humiliation . |
| 27 | Shelton has an enormous emotional range but here she showed restraint , as though choking back the extremes of expression with which these dark poems ripple . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , this will be of great help in ordering raw materials , but sometimes we get part deliveries , could we have an extra facility to deal with those ? |
| 29 | But sometimes you need direction from FATE . |
| 30 | but then they said work , they wo n't let them , the money that they 've got on council houses , they wo n't let them spend it you see that ? |