Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This brought the chucker-out to see what the commotion was about , but luckily he could n't tell what row it had come from because the old woman snatched me up by the hem of my frock and sat me on the seat . |
| 2 | He would never be able to wipe out completely the pain of his hurt pride , but henceforward he would never be able to think of Clare in any honourable way . |
| 3 | There will be tears but mostly they will toast her courage . |
| 4 | The giving of grades no doubt aggravates and facilitates such effects but mostly they could survive in its absence . |
| 5 | During the days , while the man slept , Boy would sleep a little himself , in a chair , in preparation for his nights at The Bar ; but mostly he would stare out of the window at the city , or stare at the television . |
| 6 | But mostly you can get round it , and I quite enjoy having a got with them . |
| 7 | He worked for Bonanza some of the time , but mostly you 'd find him lounging around the green tables . |
| 8 | But mostly I would think it would be |
| 9 | It is not that people should be righteous in the expectation of some reward but rather they should behave righteously because of an inherent desire to do so . |
| 10 | It was in 1927 for example that Kenneth Macpherson speculated whether those early film audiences had not just been distracted and drawn mindlessly from the streets but rather it might have been a case of ‘ the people getting in some dim way the fact that there was something under their eyes , a sense of life and expectancy ’ . |
| 11 | Have a nice weekend , keep on taking the pills yeah well you know what it 's like y'know there 'll be so many people dying for this to fail well they do n't know what 's going on but but all they 'll get is one call interception which says I ca n't get through I ca n't get through , or I 've tried this number and it does n't work and blah you know usual thing but right I must keep on taking the Buffalo Bills . |
| 12 | Erm and they look quite good , but irritatingly I could have done with them , after the first workshop . |
| 13 | At present they are manufactured for Canon under licence by Sussex-based Audio Electronics , but eventually they may be made in the UK by Canon itself . |
| 14 | I know some people will look , but eventually they 'll get used to it ; say , ‘ Oh , that 's the girl with one leg ’ , and nothing more . |
| 15 | by no means all farmers are as antipathetic to the conservationist case as is sometimes assumed , but eventually they must all make a living . |
| 16 | In the short term some sacrifices may be made , but eventually there must be a reasonable return on investments . |
| 17 | Some idea of your particular model 's handling characteristics can be gleaned from doing steep stall turns , but eventually you will have to try a proper loop and see what happens . |
| 18 | Yeah but eventually you will . |
| 19 | It does , it might not seem it at this moment in time , but eventually you will understand everything that 's in there , and what it means to you , yes ? |
| 20 | But eventually he will need help . |
| 21 | But eventually I 'll be able to go to anyone I like if he 's cheaper I 'll have to get Dai Jones the carpenter from down the road instead . ’ |
| 22 | This may take her some time to really believe ( probably not until she 's around three ) , but eventually it 'll give her a healthier respect for the pain of others . |
| 23 | There is a certain doubt as to whether the universe is old enough for any Black Dwarfs to have been produced as yet , but eventually it must happen , and this will be the final fate of the Sun — though we will not be there to see ; the Earth can hardly expect to survive the Red Giant stage , when the Sun will radiate at least a hundred times as fiercely as it does at present . |
| 24 | When we now roll the ball towards the dent it may circle around once or twice but eventually it will fall through the hole . |
| 25 | ‘ It was laughed at , but secretly we 'd say ‘ Oh God , they 're being stupid ’ . ’ |
| 26 | But secretly she would go on loving him . |
| 27 | I ca n't seem to find a copy of any report which was produced as a result of this survey , and I have no recollection of ever having received a copy , but presumably it would contain enough data for your new placement student to re-input . |
| 28 | But presumably I can put a mouse driver in later ? |
| 29 | But presumably he must have taken a shine , as the expression went , to Celia , particularly as he had gone to such trouble to seek her out and visit her at the Meadhaven Clinic . |
| 30 | Modern scientific medicine has of course dispensed with such speculative constructs , but thereby it may also have sacrificed therapeutic insights available to our renaissance predecessors . |