Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her I would stand over you , but nothing guaranteed . ’ |
| 2 | I knew that telling them would be hard but nothing prepared me for their anger and grief during our final month together . |
| 3 | ‘ I was expecting it to be bad , but nothing prepared me for this ! ’ |
| 4 | Sad claims , but nothing compared to an NME reviewer 's view that the band Flowered Up should n't be allowed to play in clubs , because black music has always been the mainstay there , and Flowered Up have their roots in rock . |
| 5 | Both were very interesting and fun , but nothing compared to what was planned for the rest of the holiday . |
| 6 | So while you can talk about the expansion of federal powers and the dominance of the national government in certain areas , it is but nothing compared to the dominance of central government in Britain over , over local government . |
| 7 | ‘ It may be age , ’ he says , ‘ but I 'm rather drawn to adversity and I like a good wash-out ; but nothing happens here except a steady loss of money . |
| 8 | There 's one short answer : 1992 will indeed see the removal of trade barriers between the 12 EC states and the seven in the European Trade Association ( EFTA ) , but nothing happens until 31 December . |
| 9 | But nothing happens . |
| 10 | But nothing happens . |
| 11 | The ideal example of course the C A P , we 've had reform after reform but nothing happens . |
| 12 | Mary tottered up on her perch from side to side but nothing wiped the mild , sweet benignity from her doll 's face as she dropped the dew of her mercy down from heaven on the mortal exiles below wailing and weeping in the vale of tears . |
| 13 | Our oars and sails are put out but nothing alters . |
| 14 | Death should change things , but nothing changes here . |
| 15 | Everything changes but nothing changes … |
| 16 | Poverty , he defined as ‘ having no surplus ’ , i.e. having the bare essentials much of the time , but nothing to spare to provide for a crisis such as unemployment , sickness or death in the family . |
| 17 | He had courage , but nothing to back it up . |
| 18 | Various schemes had been tried on Easter Monday to raise money — chrysanthemum shows and egg and spoon races included — but nothing had really developed . |
| 19 | But nothing had prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh , says Morton . |
| 20 | But nothing had prepared her for the monumental size and sheer glamour of the building . |
| 21 | It seemed like hours since she had slipped away to find Ace , but nothing had changed much . |
| 22 | He told me he had been a sailor , had known the bitter odour of disease and been a casualty in the wars of the elements , but nothing had been as dire as the loss of his woman to another . |
| 23 | She had been coldly beautiful until the day she died , but nothing had brought her happiness . |
| 24 | The Cabinet had been summoned for 5 o'clock , but nothing had leaked out . |
| 25 | He tried to live an ordinary life , working as a bus driver , and accounts clerk at Harrods and later studying for a zoology degree , but nothing made him content . |
| 26 | But nothing reached her from the other cabin . |
| 27 | They smiled at each other politely in the lift , but nothing passed between them . |
| 28 | For a ducal wedding in Mantua the following year Monteverdi wrote a second opera , Arianna , to a text by Rinuccini , and a dramatic ballet Il Ballo dell' ingrate , but nothing remains of Arianna except the heroine 's justly famous lament which survives not only in its original form but in the composer 's arrangements of it as a five-part madrigal in his Sixth Book ( 1614 ) and as a ‘ Pianto della Madonna ’ for solo voice and continuo in his Selva Morale ( 1640 ) ; it set a remarkable and long-lasting fashion for lamenti . |
| 29 | But nothing prepared the 14-year-old for the shock when Tony ran off in real life with Tracey . |
| 30 | Warhol was utterly and completely worthless for me from the word go , something in the history of fashion perhaps but nothing to do with art whatsoever . |