Example sentences of "but [adv] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first I thought the kick was going to leave him with a permanently capped hock , but luckily Lynn Russell ( the friend , show producer and dealer who sold Skipper to me ) had all the answers , as usual . |
| 2 | I believe the referee is going to put it in his report , but luckily Ian was unmarked and not badly hurt . ’ |
| 3 | It hurt a lot but thankfully Doctor Costa was able to fix me . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr Angel — ’ No , do n't be cheeky , ' — or You There or Buggerlugs — but mostly Roy . ’ |
| 5 | This is not , as it might have been with such a tale , the cuckolded merchant , but rather Margery , the stupid wife , who is particularly funny because she is so unthinkingly conventionally good and who effaces any real self she may be imagined to have within a cluster of clichés . |
| 6 | The Mahmud Pasa concerned , he suggests , is thus not the Grand Vezir Mahmud Pasa , but rather Kassabzade Mahmud Bey , who had been Mehmed II's tutor when he went to Manisa in 1443 and who was a leading figure in the events of 1444 . |
| 7 | A thirteenth-century man who was free to leave his own tithing ( or who absconded ) for a nearby town would not long be called Matthew atte Middele ( Matthew who lives in the middle of the village ) , or such , but rather Matthew Longback or Matthew of ( or from ) Thornbury , depending on which struck his new friends as the more appropriate , and the new identification may well have turned into a surname and passed down the generations . |
| 8 | But eventually Leo Baker , employed as Carnegie 's full-time adviser , and certainly the most powerful leader in amateur theatre training in the country , gave way in the early 1960s to another younger yet just as skilful negotiator , Peter Husbands , who was finely in tune with the changing emphasis in the world of drama education . |
| 9 | He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet . |
| 10 | As time ticked by at Gatwick , Keith feared there were last minute problems in Immigration , but eventually Mae passed through customs . |
| 11 | They spend a happy time in Venice , but eventually Martin departs . |
| 12 | There were competitors , but eventually Wisden outstripped these rivals and emerged as the cricketers ' bible . |
| 13 | I.C.A.C. decided to postpone inquiries , to avoid collision with another agency which was investigating the affairs of Carrian , but eventually Mr. Turner was charged with , pleaded guilty to and was sentenced to imprisonment for , a total of four charges arising from these transactions . |
| 14 | Obviously unwilling , he asked for an absurd sum for doing so , but eventually Omar settled with him for a reasonable amount . |
| 15 | But secretly Keith feels a black man with a Filofax looks stupid . |
| 16 | The machines are very good quality , Schaller-style but presumably Gotoh , gold-plated — as they are on all O.C. Smith guitars — and dead smooth to use . |
| 17 | It was well past her bedtime , but little Nichola came running into the living room where her mum and dad were sitting . |
| 18 | ‘ But little Ellie Browne is n't going to be given a chance to be a part of it , ’ she murmured with mock sorrow . |
| 19 | But little Harry had wept — for his beloved sister 's absence and Lily had taken him secretly to visit her . |
| 20 | He beat up some woman who had to be put into hospital , but Little Liz forgave him . |
| 21 | But little Sylvia had no thoughts of money ; she was delighted with the cake and jelly and with the child-sized table and chair her father had made for her and the knitted doll from her mother . |
| 22 | But Little Billy was awfully tired of being good . |
| 23 | But Little Billy was never asleep . |
| 24 | Verses 2–3 : it was normal to employ professional embalmers — but perhaps Joseph wanted to avoid religious entanglements . |
| 25 | But perhaps Joan 's greatest success came with a young man in the neuro-psychiatric unit who had been reduced to a pitiful existence as a result of a terrible motorcycle accident . |
| 26 | Tess could not accept her mother 's view of life , but perhaps Joan was right in this . |
| 27 | And I do n't think I can say much more than that but perhaps Simon |
| 28 | The idea of taxing what most people regard as their birthright , fresh air , is startling , but perhaps Tolba is right : we should not take it for granted . |
| 29 | But perhaps Alida knew the remaining Misses Lavender best , after all . |
| 30 | But perhaps Nicholson 's most spectacular achievement was the important part he played in surpassing the performance of the rival Perkin & Sons — a feat that would have been impossible without the cooperation of his friend , and mentor , Hofmann . |