Example sentences of "but be [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nastase had sublime skills but was careering around without much discipline and direction … a powderkeg temperament … an adorable , off-the-wall rogue . |
| 32 | Then reverse curves were coming up and the train ran through the first curve but was going too fast for the next one and the train left the track , killing certainly the driver and fireman and one or two passengers , I believe . |
| 33 | The clarinet , a relatively new instrument , had not been available in Salzburg , but was becoming increasingly common by the 1780s . |
| 34 | Endill continued to search on his own but was becoming more and more tired . |
| 35 | This was low in 1801 and 1802 but high over the next five years ; it was on the low side in 1812 and 1813 , recovered in 1814 , but was falling again as the wars ended . |
| 36 | Her father was under clad for the time of year but was sweating heavily . |
| 37 | It is not a defence for the defendant to claim he was not ‘ offering ’ his goods but was making only an invitation to treat . |
| 38 | He was only 18 years old , but was making quite a market on the side in watches and jewellery that he would jokingly claim " had fallen off the back of a lorry " . |
| 39 | Mr Robinson 's counsel , Kieran May , had told the judge that the MoD admitted liability for the purposes of the action , but was disputing how much should be awarded . |
| 40 | She actually had a fairly good idea of what was wrong with her mother , but was wondering how to approach Patrick , without alarming him … although in this case , it was probably better to alarm him . |
| 41 | Across the road in Parliament in the late sixties , as Wilson , Castle and Crossman wore themselves out in the cause , as they saw it , of a more modern and socially just Britain , there sat in the Leader of the Opposition 's office a man who not only shared the Jenkins view of workload but was planning exactly what he would do about it if the electorate gave him his chance . |
| 42 | He was not looking at me any more , but was staring out to sea where a small tanker , her navigation lights glowing bright in the falling darkness , nudged gingerly towards the bunkering buoys . |
| 43 | Then she found that she did n't have to say a word for , his expression the harshest she had ever seen it , Ven was wasting no further time , but was letting forth with a snarled , ‘ Just who the hell are you ? ’ |
| 44 | ‘ From — you ? ’ she asked uncomprehendingly , but was feeling in so much of a fog , she had to admit , ‘ I do n't think I understand . ’ |
| 45 | If I did n't have that advantage , I might easily be extremely suspicious of what was going on and think that much of the sort of thing they 're used to especially at primary school was not maths at all but was playing around with bits of string and round cylinders and erm certainly nothing like I remember doing . |