Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was one of the most accomplished debaters in the Government but nothing would have saved him from the mauling . |
| 2 | He 'd got thinner and the blue eyes were getting watery , but nothing would persuade him to rest . |
| 3 | Christy was playing unbelievable golf , but nothing would drop for him . |
| 4 | I was playing well , but nothing would go right for me . |
| 5 | Firstly , the makers wanted to make Henry blacker , but nothing would stick to his wiry , go-anywhere , wash-it-and-leave-it coat . |
| 6 | She knew she was clutching at straws but nothing would get her up the West End . |
| 7 | I did n't want to at all , but nothing would make her change her mind . |
| 8 | But nothing would be plausible if he had hounded after him . |
| 9 | Ross fished around with the scope , looking frantically for his target , but nothing would stay still . |
| 10 | Bristol did n't have their strongest side out but nothing would have stopped Gloucester on saturday … skipper Ian Smith scored the last try … 38-11 … just what coach keith richardson wanted |
| 11 | But nothing would settle the issue more abruptly than a DoH response to a challenge issued by Pam Charlwood who , when Institute of Health Services Management director , demanded the government ‘ sort out the differences between social and health care ’ . |
| 12 | A common agreement between two or more persons having for its object the death of all of them , whether or not each is to take his own life , but nothing shall be treated as done by him in pursuance of the pact unless it is done while he has the settled intention of dying in pursuance of the pact . |
| 13 | But nothing will really be solved until we have a government with the moral courage to ban driving entirely . |
| 14 | But nothing will never get no better until it clicks |
| 15 | But nothing will more unite MPs of all parties than outrage over a Minister who lies in the sacred Commons chamber . |
| 16 | In fact , options or at least verbal commitments will have been obtained already for some special buys which are wanted , but nothing will have been the subject of a formal order to any of the media before this . |
| 17 | Your wife will be frightened , but nothing will happen to her , of course . |
| 18 | But nothing will , unless I make it . |
| 19 | Barbara knows all this , but nothing will deter her from blaming Ben for everything she does not like . ’ |
| 20 | You can plan as much as you like , but nothing will change facts . |
| 21 | But nothing will ever make up for Amar for the total loss of mother , father , entire family , house and everything . |
| 22 | Ian was later murdered by a terrorist bomb but nothing can destroy the memory of a unique politician and man . |
| 23 | ‘ But nothing can be more important than the Business Plan , ’ Mark insisted . |
| 24 | Other things may play their part in helping us to understand , but nothing can take its place . |
| 25 | The caffeine gives her numbed brain cells a temporary boost but nothing can increase the speed with which the body disposes of alcohol , and the coffee does n't make her any more sober . |
| 26 | People try to beat that misery with barbiturates , but nothing can cure it because you 've taken away from yourself all chance of feeling pleasure . |
| 27 | Nowadays , it is rather more garish , a popular halt for coaches , but nothing can detract from the superb views over the rocky coast and lovely sands , the road serving as a promenade . |
| 28 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 29 | In other words , deviance can be used to suggest and support hypotheses about style ; but nothing can be adduced from , or proved by , statistics alone . |
| 30 | Things can go in , but nothing can get out . |