Example sentences of "[adv] but [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They said six hundred originally apparently but then and now they 're talking four hundred . |
| 2 | If Keith got out of bed one or other parent would immediately return him and hold him gently but firmly until he lay quietly . |
| 3 | Press the button gently but firmly and without jerking the camcorder each time you start and stop . |
| 4 | Later he responds more positively to Vera 's shy advances and embraces her gently but respectfully when they are interrupted by Natalia . |
| 5 | The Dodge stays flat enough but only because the tyres are n't capable of generating the lateral forces of the Vauxhall . |
| 6 | A big , glossy hardback with lavish colour pictures , it is handsome enough but now that so many general cookbooks include first-class vegetarian recipes it seems an expensive extra . |
| 7 | Children , quite often , who were classed brutally but realistically as orphans and rarely identified . |
| 8 | It is not that we are afraid to do so but simply that the occasion never really arises . |
| 9 | For example , A Thousand Smiles builds quite nicely but ordinarily until out of nowhere explodes this magnificent guitar . |
| 10 | I know it 's a little bit longer but then when you 're going up later |
| 11 | But it 's lasted about seven year , so you never can organ but once we did start I did enjoy the ones over here because over there when your kids were small you did n't go out much anyway but now that your kids are up you 've got it , and personally I enjoyed the ones that started but they do n't have Christmas dance , barn dances and things like this , they do n't org we have to have to organize like that ourself . |
| 12 | A short flight up was a landing and the stairs turned in on themselves to another short flight , which brought her to another corridor similar to the one downstairs but more than twice its length . |
| 13 | She phoned Meg again and told her she was so silly , she 'd made a muddle with the dates of two concerts , and it would be perfectly all right for them to come tonight but only if Meg was absolutely sure it would n't be too much trouble , it was so sweet of her … |
| 14 | The green imperial pigeon , uniquely among birds , can unhitch its lower beak and expand its mouth not only vertically but horizontally and swallow a nutmeg that is slightly larger than its own head . |
| 15 | She had already met this young man , when he had last come to pay his rent , and found him startlingly different from the Welsh boys of her acquaintance — a big , silent boy with disillusioned , almond-shaped eyes sunk above high cheek bones , a boy who had stared unblinkingly at her until she had begun to blush with embarrassment , so that she had felt stripped , not only physically but mentally as well . |
| 16 | Rose wished that they could be married quickly but now that there was nothing in the way of it Moran grew cautious and evasive . |
| 17 | And then , with a flash of her usual impetuous spirit , ‘ She was horrible to you , not once but again and again . ’ |
| 18 | They did n't all let go at once but only when they could hold on no longer . |
| 19 | RMI may be summed up rather simplistically but powerfully as being about the linking of clinical activity , data , for both volume and quality ( at individual patient and case-mix level ) to resource utilisation such that costs can be identified on a projective basis . |
| 20 | Anyway , he thought they would be drifting apart a bit now , perversely but predictably because they were seeing more of each other , not just weekends ; Stock stayed the night at the horrible little place in Islington quite often , but Slater thought Sara might be getting bored with the black-leather macho man . |
| 21 | He had pursued her — politely but unmistakably and through two weeks — at Grasmere . |
| 22 | stated that if the Minister were acting administratively natural justice would not apply , that the Minister was in fact acting quasi-judicially but only because the situation was ‘ triangular ’ in that the Minister was deciding a lis inter partes between the local authority and objectors . |
| 23 | This , he believes , is why the response occurs , not automatically but selectively when hope is around by the response-correlated and environmental stimuli . |
| 24 | Indeed , his affections seem to have redirected themselves , platonically but more or less intact , to fair-browed Reinhard . |
| 25 | Now it affects all the joints as well but somehow or other I felt that that was the thing that stuck in my mind from seeing him . |
| 26 | The record should include not only the fact that they mate regularly but also that matings are fertile . |
| 27 | I know we 've got ta go out tomorrow but then if we do n't go down there today we 're not gon na go this week . |
| 28 | He was driving fast but safely and , Agnes noted , not as well as she could have done . |
| 29 | We had been used to seeing bigger names travel here but somehow or other they never showed top form . |
| 30 | We 'll go a little , trifle slower but rather than no it 's not so much a trifle slower as steadily . |