Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I did n't think so at the time but when I think of it you know , and later when I came back after the war we , oh my God ! |
| 2 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
| 3 | The teaching faculties and administrative offices are scattered all over the city but , forming a wonderful backdrop to King 's Parade , stands the Senate House . |
| 4 | The dreaded gardeners ' garters , of Phalaris arundinacea ‘ Picta ’ manages to creep all over the place but is far too lovely a plant to write off just for that reason . |
| 5 | He refused to come downstairs into the cellar but more or less instructed me to return to Oakington at once , as the Commander-in-Chief wanted to speak to me . |
| 6 | The earth is rapidly carried away by the water but the larger stones are moved only occasionally when the rivers are in flood . |
| 7 | He was particularly careful of any involvement with the Mamur Zapt , which was why Owen not only reported formally to the Khedive but was nominally subordinate to Garvin . |
| 8 | The Science and Engineering Research Council ( SERC ) also responded positively to the policies but was disappointed that opportunities had been missed . |
| 9 | Estimates of carbon releases from the biosphere to the atmosphere in response to changes in land-use have varied enormously in the past but are now generally in the range 0.8 to 2.5 Gt of carbon per year ( Bolin , 1986 ) . |
| 10 | He bent double with the pain but managed to restrain himself from crying out . |
| 11 | Yeah I mean this looks almost like a school but I mean |
| 12 | He attempted to stand inconspicuously in a corner but it was useless , for most of the villagers nudged one another and turned to stare in his direction . |
| 13 | Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub . |
| 14 | The wind and rain on the little hill above Jaffa had ripped away at the paint but it was just possible to make out the words ‘ David Damiani ’ to the left of the broken wooden gate . |
| 15 | A file should exist online for the module but can not be found . |
| 16 | I think they did , yeah Because I do n't get much time during the day er to go away from the shop but er I , the only job I mostly do is when the visitors come to the er temple I have to go there explain about Sikhism . |
| 17 | It is not recorded whether the Salas diary was his most recent acquisition or whether it appealed most to the colleague but the following story is quite remarkable . |
| 18 | Alan says his wife says of golfers there you are a big cup and lots of money … last week he came home with the cup but no money |
| 19 | In other words it 's a new it 's something which is not done directly from the computer but which is using information the computer provides . |
| 20 | A former Car of the Year winner , it has done well on the Continent but has been under-rated here . |
| 21 | This had been scheduled to open earlier in the year but had been pre-empted and postponed by Falkenhayn 's attack at Verdun . |
| 22 | I 've heard bottles rattling early in the morning but I , sort of one o'clock , two o'clock but I had n't |
| 23 | I was just looking at that , going right off the subject but er that Uri Geller ? |
| 24 | As Wildavsky ( 1975 , p. 42 ) states : ‘ It is not so much that traditional budgeting succeeds brilliantly on every criterion but that it does not entirely fail on any one that is responsible for its longevity . ’ |
| 25 | The company has promised much in the past but to date failed to perform up to the market 's expectations . |
| 26 | Ipswich Town could run away with the title but there is strong competition for the second spot . |
| 27 | Both were able to walk away from the wreckage but were taken to hospital by ambulance for treatment . |
| 28 | Sailing craft can not sail directly into the wind but only at an angle of 45 degrees to it . |
| 29 | It was in 1927 for example that Kenneth Macpherson speculated whether those early film audiences had not just been distracted and drawn mindlessly from the streets but rather it might have been a case of ‘ the people getting in some dim way the fact that there was something under their eyes , a sense of life and expectancy ’ . |
| 30 | However , the Bill was enacted on May 9 under provisions of the Parliament Acts 1991 and 1949 ( whereby a bill could be passed directly for royal assent if it had been approved twice by the Commons but rejected both times by the Lords ) . |