Example sentences of "but [noun prp] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Armstrong was found Guilty and became the only solicitor to go to the gallows for murder . |
| 2 | He did n't know how it had happened , but Sarah was giving all her maternal love to the wrong child . |
| 3 | Powerhouse lost both Morag Walker ( illness ) and Pam Bell ( cramp ) during Saturday 's semi-final win but Krawczyk is hoping both will be fit for tonight . |
| 4 | Christine might have carried it off , but Lucy was feeling cheap and obvious . |
| 5 | But Pertwee was allowed one privilege that was reserved for very , very few . |
| 6 | There were no hard core scenes , but Kylie was talking dirty , kicking off her underwear in bedroom antics and begging co-star Charlie Schlatter 's character to make love to her . |
| 7 | Scotland may be out , but Hampden 's looking fit to grace the best of games , as you 're about to see . |
| 8 | But Toby was made obstinate by his first off-the-cuff effort to get himself a job . |
| 9 | But Ruth was getting scared about him . |
| 10 | The Manchu was eating with economy , and seemed oblivious to the strangeness of his surroundings , but Alexei was sitting frozen , unable to conceal his disbelief as he watched a Yek officer impaling his meat with claws which were easily three centimetres long . |
| 11 | But Carol is remaining discreet on the exact design . |
| 12 | But Rab was thinking different things , thoughts to square the damage . |
| 13 | His commercial reputation was now in shade , but Jackson was hatching speculative schemes to the last . |
| 14 | But Matthew is claiming more than this . |
| 15 | Pilots were to be Russ Boardman and Lee Gehlbach , but Boardman was injured prior to the race and Doolittle found he had no mount ( his landing gear had jammed ) , so he took over for the Thompson . |
| 16 | MARTIN Leyland , the Swinton winger who fractured his skull and cracked neck vertebrae last February , scored a try on his Rugby League comeback against Rochdale — but Swinton were beaten 14-10 . |
| 17 | Poland would have guaranteed rights of access to the port , but Danzigers were offered fragile assurances by the League that the Poles would not interfere with the internal affairs of the city-state beyond running the railways , maintaining a Post Office , a customs service , a small garrison and munitions dump on the Westerplatte peninsula , and exercising nominal control over the city s foreign policy . |
| 18 | I know , now , you could but , but Derek 's reading that prospectus in the car today and it 's , it 's in Cardiff and he said they write in there and say that you know , they want mature students and , and , and this that and the other , and er , they give them erm , priority and well that 's rubbish ! |
| 19 | But Jamie was replaced that night by a tall , white-faced man who said nothing when he handed in the plate of food . |
| 20 | But Moore was becoming used to them . |
| 21 | No further appointment was made , but Liz was offered open telephone access to the psychiatric unit in the event of future difficulties . |
| 22 | But Bavaria is changing fast and the CSU is struggling to keep pace . |
| 23 | It 's a bit late , but Britain 's getting ready to defend herself at last — in case . ’ |
| 24 | But Jones was denied that special extra run . |
| 25 | Rory could n't see his face , but Fiona 's looked glowing and bright . |
| 26 | ‘ The present offer is an absolute insult , but Lennox is getting worried and he is adamant that he wants to fight Bowe . |
| 27 | Maloney said : ‘ The present offer is an absolute insult , but Lennox is getting worried and he is adamant that he wants to fight Bowe . |
| 28 | But Fielding was talking millions . |
| 29 | But Lydia was drinking great mouthfuls of beer and would n't tell her . |
| 30 | The Federated Services interfaces wo n't be around until early next year , but SunSoft is offering some demonstration technology which will be available for Solaris 2.0 next month . |