Example sentences of "but [vb -s] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changes of stream course can sometimes be inferred where a meandering parish boundary leaves the present stream it is following but rejoins it further along its course . |
| 2 | He really scents the difficulty but thinks it too hard for discussion and so conveniently pretends that he has not seen it . |
| 3 | ( d ) Turning the hip too much extends the range of the kick , but renders you more vulnerable |
| 4 | But owes it chiefly to her Tea ? |
| 5 | But has it really been tougher than before ? |
| 6 | But has he any right to tell the theist this ? |
| 7 | Kubota has at least half a dozen Alpha chips in the labs , but says it still has a long way to go before there is sufficient software support to bring out the Titan 2.0 . |
| 8 | Clare has worked for Rentokil at Felcourt in departments such as the post room , the canteen and industrial products , but says she most enjoys her switchboard work with her colleague Dawn Lucas . |
| 9 | Last November he was banned from driving for four years , but says he probably wo n't ever drive again . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister has postponed a Commons debate on the Maastricht treaty , but says he still plans to forge ahead with a bill to ratify it . |
| 11 | Tonight he 's smartly dressed in shirt and tie , baggy trousers and leather jacket , but says he often wears the kilt . |
| 12 | ‘ He has no regard to the decreets of y[ou]r courts , but repells them currently , ’ the duke was told , and the writer added his own opinion of the intention of the bailie-depute in thus attacking a rival jurisdiction . |
| 13 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 14 | The patient gets better after each dose but requires it more and more frequently in order to sustain the benefit . |
| 15 | The lengthening day that pushes back your train Of clinging shadow , but keeps you here , has woken The seeds from the sleep they fell to when you went Down with them to darkness , the dread time When nothing could reach you , when you were hid away , And I retreated , sorrowing , hidden also ; And seed cast in the barren furrow rotted And trees withered and died ; and in the womb Of many a beast the embryo miscarried And then no germination ; and the earth sickened When in the womb of darkness you were stifled . |
| 16 | It votes to set up a force , but keeps it too small and sends it off with orders not to shoot . |
| 17 | Putting it this simply does not make light of the doubt but takes it very seriously . |
| 18 | This not only opens up what is going on , but takes us forward as well . |
| 19 | but finds they usually need persuasion first , |
| 20 | He 's got the kind of seriousness which he admires , and a certain way of leaning forward as he shows Howard round , as if he is eager to understand the world but finds it rather difficult . |
| 21 | Suppose , on the other hand , that he is guided by law as integrity , which does not limit law to what convention finds in past decisions but directs him also to regard as law what morality would suggest to be the best justification of these past decisions . |
| 22 | Our analysis includes the geographical area covered by Gardner et al but follows it too closely in time to provide data to test their findings ; only cases 12–14 in table III ( one non-Hodgkin lymphoma , one leukaemia , one Hodgkin 's disease ) were diagnosed after the period covered by the Gardner study and moreover all three were conceived before the parents moved to Seascale . |
| 23 | Mrs Lundgren describes her LibDem opponent as ‘ a football gimmick ’ but admits she probably wo n't finish top of the table either . |
| 24 | The reprocessing does not create plutonium but recovers it so that it can be recycled as a source of energy . |
| 25 | But does she ever feel lonely ? |
| 26 | Yes , middle class women have done a lot for the ‘ Women 's Movement ’ but does she really think that us working class women have been sitting on our arses doing nothing all this time . |
| 27 | Joe has been learning the great man 's speeches and studying his mannerisms , but does he really look likely Winston at all ? |
| 28 | But does he really want the Challenge ? |
| 29 | I notice that you ‘ suggest ’ that he bathes daily and cleans his teeth regularly but does he actually do anything with these suggestions ? |
| 30 | But does he ever feel that it is his fate never to become World Champion ? |