Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was expecting it to be bad , but nothing prepared me for this ! ’ |
| 2 | But nothing prepares you for four and a half hours climbing up crumbling ice . |
| 3 | But I knew nothing at all about Tohoku University , or about the city of Sendai . |
| 4 | Gerald Brennan , writing just two or three years after the war , says in The Face of Spain that the slow hand-clap to attract the attention of waiters had died out , but I heard it in several places in the north . |
| 5 | In fact I broadcast that material , but I cut it into three programmes , and I , I cut in the questions I would have asked if he 'd actually given me a chance to ask them . |
| 6 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |
| 7 | I know how to build those damned weapons but I know nothing about those fancy triggering devices . ’ |
| 8 | But I left it at that . |
| 9 | but I put him on some medicine I got from the chemist and it seems to have calmed it down but his nose is more er hot and cold |
| 10 | Slow , he wrote , but I like it like that . |
| 11 | Mhm , I like it , but I like it like that better . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I 'm sorry , but I like it like this , ’ she said . |
| 13 | ‘ I had to coax two into it because they are not very experienced cook , but I chose them for that very reason , ’ he says . |
| 14 | Now I filed my nail this morning cos it was catching , I did n't file it long enough obviously , but I filed it with that erm you know you opened up the |
| 15 | ‘ It has emptied our account , but I got it for twelve hundred and fifty francs . |
| 16 | I w , but I liked him in that one on a Friday night . |
| 17 | I WAS married four years ago to a girl I loved very much , but I lost her to another man , because I was so incompetent when it came to having sex . |
| 18 | There were other possibles — mostly underworld figures — but I discounted them as red herrings . |
| 19 | But I have nothing at all to complain about . |
| 20 | BELVILLE : O , she may be your favourite as a waiting maid but I see nothing but clumsy curtseys and awkward airs about her . |
| 21 | ‘ No ; but … but I guessed something like that had happened from what you said a while back . ’ |
| 22 | Several people were listening but nobody said anything at first . |
| 23 | Wallpapering your PC Next in our flying tour of these low cost packages comes Wallpaper Art Gallery for Windows , ( WAGWIN ) a title which ostensibly is single use , but which lends itself to one or two other purposes as well . |
| 24 | ‘ But you know nothing of any kidnap ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But you had something like two feet of snow in New York , you said ! ’ laughed Caro . |
| 26 | ‘ Good point , but you call it in first . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The char is something like a salmon , ’ Mr Robinson said , but you find it in fresh water only . |
| 28 | They all end up the same way but you do it by different ways . |
| 29 | Winterthur is Switzerland 's sixth largest town , but none surpasses it in artistic richness . |
| 30 | It would be possible , temporarily , to laugh at the wife being landed in trouble by the monk after her meretricious bargain with him , but she extricates herself from this problem in true fabliau manner . |