Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I have seen photographs of orca , both still and movie , close-up and underwater , but nothing prepares me for the sight of a real one that scythes out of the water 100 metres or so away from the boat . |
2 | ‘ But nothing prepares you for the blinding flash of flares and the noise of the thundercrackers as you run on to the field . |
3 | They are comfortably familiar tunes , but she interprets them in an intensely personal way . |
4 | but she leaves them with the neighbours or a neighbour , but I mean it 's all different to bringing them up yourself , in n it ? |
5 | Adorno , we have seen , acknowledges this specificity — indeed , for him it explains the ( unfulfilled ) potential of jazz and the hangovers of ‘ real ’ creativity in some Tin Pan Alley songs ; but he subsumes it into a theory of ‘ false individualization ’ , designed , in his view , to disguise mass cultural production as ‘ art ’ . |
6 | The backbone of his work is the new recitative but he uses it with a power quite beyond Peri 's so that it is not merely ‘ expressive ’ but when necessary , as in Orfeo 's lament in Act II , heart-breaking . |
7 | Mr Llambias ' services do not come cheap — they are a combination of a retainer ‘ sufficient to make them think really seriously ’ and a success fee that is a percentage of the fee income of the smaller firm ( sometimes 5% or 7.5% ) — but he prides himself on the longevity of the mergers he arranges . |
8 | It does not do him justice to say he is on their side , but he leaves us in no doubt about the horror of what Jacob and Rebekah have done . |
9 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
10 | He may use tools of analysis developed within a wider European tradition , but he applies them to a special problem : the uniqueness of our nation 's formation ; the condition of England . |
11 | v. Wilts U.D. , but he addresses himself to the question and uses his intelligence . |
12 | Stephen has gone through confession , and is , he declares , ‘ Ready to forge that language ’ , but he declares it in a language that will not yet take Joyce out of desperation . |
13 | Oh yes , but he wants them for the whole of the year you see , which is impossible . |
14 | But he treats me like a child . |
15 | This he will normally be planning to do , but it involves him in a more considerable recasting of his planned activities than the university teacher , and brings him into contact with many more parts of the school life . |
16 | Well the speeds it achieves wo n't actually take it into the air … but it takes it into the record books . |
17 | But it does nothing of the sort . |
18 | At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment . |
19 | But it says nothing about the register being evidence of ownership , and it is not clear what role , if any , it plays in converting an equitable interest to a legal one . |
20 | No ulterior motive lurks behind it , but it keeps you at a distance . |
21 | but it tells you on the thing , it , a white thing with a line through it |
22 | This may well be the case , but it leaves one with an increased sense of respect for Eric Shipton and his companions who , in 1929 , made each of the first three Nelion-Batian traverses ( up and down by what is now regarded as the Normal Route ) , in one day . |
23 | The advert does not say ‘ go beyond greed ’ but it leaves you in a place where greed — at least for that moment — is obsolete . |
24 | Of course , you can run the programs in a DOS window , but it seems something of a regressive step . |
25 | New Zealand has the playing infrastructure but it has nothing like a big enough commercial base . |
26 | I do not think this experience is confined to women , but it symbolizes something of the quality of the Great Mother , and it shows how we have the ability to conceive and carry to birth on a level other than the physical . |
27 | Mm , so what if could erm , could come up with a policy , that you pay your premiums in , but it covers you for the whole of your life . |
28 | ‘ Money is my motivation , but what keeps me at the top is that I 'm petrified of losing . |