Example sentences of "[adv] but [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was wrong ’ are the three hardest words in English to put together but they raise no barriers . |
| 2 | The next generation of OLTP technologies now coming out of the labs are based upon reliable queuing mechanisms — messaging services which allow distributed OLTP systems to be linked together but which maintain the integrity of transactions . |
| 3 | There will be broad scholarly interest simply in seeing the whole thing together and in reuniting certain pairs or groups of paintings which were conceived together but which have not been seen together in the past . |
| 4 | Erm , so what we wanted to do was , we 've had we 're doing quite well with the ov , erm , the five weeks we 've been together but we wan na make sure that you do combat erm a successful pact . |
| 5 | They had gone out together but there had not been a sexual relationship between them as Faye had been unwilling to sleep with Harris , said Mr Chadd . |
| 6 | ‘ They had been living together but she said she was leaving him , ’ said Mr Ben Hemo . |
| 7 | It took forty-seven stitches to put that whippet back together but it lived . |
| 8 | John tried to hold the family together but it knocked everyone back . ’ |
| 9 | The group might knock heads together but it does n't seem designed to do the equally important job of explaining what is happening to staff and patients . |
| 10 | Michael sniggered behind Moran as soon as they were on the road together but it drew such a quelling look from Maggie that he went quiet . |
| 11 | I 'm not saying we all had it together but you say you can er say that about four of 'em would then as that as that they got rid of it the other the others 'd get it you know eventually and th we 'd all have it in the end . |
| 12 | And then it 'll give you the time just to relax together but I mean that , that 's why I say , Rudy has n't got a clue in this |
| 13 | We have enjoyed great success together but I feel the chance to be published on both sides of the Atlantic by HarperCollins is an exciting stage in my career . |
| 14 | I 'm a bit better but I 've had to get out this morning to let June stay in ! |
| 15 | I should have known better but I got a booking about half past nine in the evening . |
| 16 | I thought it would 've been a bit better but I did enjoy it , I did enjoy it . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , she did n't like the idea much but she said she 'd try . ’ |
| 18 | She had not liked him very much but she judged him to be one of those unfortunate men who dislike their neighbours even more than they dislike themselves and as such he was to be pitied , plodding on from day to day among his bingo-playing telly-watching parishioners . |
| 19 | I said , thank you very much but I have n't even been charged yet , let alone convicted . |
| 20 | I do n't like exercising much but I do swim a lot |
| 21 | It is clear then that MP goes significantly further than VP ; it may follow naturally but it does not follow ‘ logically ’ . |
| 22 | There 's some story about a Mars bar , apparently but we 'ave n't got to that bit yet . |
| 23 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |
| 24 | He 's been on the sauce basically but he 's kicked the habit and he says of kicking the drinking habit I 've had a lot of help and a lot of good counselling , in the end it 's up to me . |
| 25 | ‘ There is a body inside but we do n't know yet if it is Mr Spiro . |
| 26 | My stomach went all queer inside but I managed to push the message between her icy fingers and kiss her forehead before I pulled my hand away . |
| 27 | ‘ It does n't worry me morally but I have a lot of sympathy with those who do n't think it is very attractive . |
| 28 | We 're hoping he wo n't be there long but they thought he might n't be able to manage in big classes . |
| 29 | It played for a little while , I did n't play it for long but it did play . |
| 30 | It finishes just short of the summit with a superb rock pitch that looks hard from below but which turns out to be slabs at a comfortable angle , full of deep cracks . |