Example sentences of "[pron] but [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That person is a menace to everyone but he may well think that , in a few hours ' time , he 'll be back to normal and no harm will be done . |
| 2 | It surprised me but it could easily have been tiredness from being out so long . |
| 3 | The plants may suffer because of the lack of light and fish picking at them but they will soon recover once things are back to normal when you return . |
| 4 | ‘ He still has obligations to them but he could still become a priest again . |
| 5 | After all , he might be able to buy them but he could hardly force her to wear them , could he ? |
| 6 | The great thing about teddies is that you can love them … or leave them but you can never ignore them forever |
| 7 | At first the dog may only sniff at them but you should soon be able to encourage it to play with them . |
| 8 | No no , there are natural , we always have a strong preference for something but we can actually develop them , just like management style we have a strong preference for , for one style but it is something that we can learn can get more and try and rationale sort of like theoretical we can try and rationalize what 's perhaps happening is that in situations when we 're not gaining a lot and it could be that it 's because it 's had a lot of activity and we can actually gain more from it we can rationalize it and analyze it . |
| 9 | The media regularly feed off each other 's stories : a practice which may be defensible where the original story is an accurate one but which can otherwise lead to the dissemination of a falsehood . |
| 10 | Though her heart was thumping as it had then , no one but herself would ever know it . |
| 11 | Big one but I can only see that . |
| 12 | So you ca n't demand one but you can always ask |
| 13 | He is not in a hurry , he is man to wait until a thing is right , time , price , everything but he will always do what he wants , and get his aeroplanes eventually . |
| 14 | But beneath it she understood , accepted , found it far easier to hate him , when he fought her back to the bed , than to ignore him ; the bitings and scratchings of anger coming near enough to passion so that when he entered her again she found it possible , in her loathing , her detestation , her bitter resentment , to wrap her own strong , hard limbs about him in a grip designed to wound and crush him but which could also excite . |
| 15 | There was a figure on either side of him but I could only see Charlie Vaughan . |
| 16 | In an American garden I heard another frog , a hyla , which is the world 's best ventriloquist ; you can hear him but you will never find him . |
| 17 | I 'm actually , I 'm quite high on as theorist as well and I like to write everything out in full and I clear structures and if I go to training sessions and they 're all over the place , it 's such a in about five minutes and I have to say hang on a minute it might not be structured in the way that you like it but you can actually learn from it . |
| 18 | Even now I 'll go back and I ca n't play note for note what I played then ; I can get the general feel of it but I can never go back and hit it note for note . |
| 19 | Even now I 'll go back and I ca n't play note for note what I played then ; I can get the general feel of it but I can never go back and hit it note for note |
| 20 | And he said well I 'm pretty sure , but he said fifty , fifty and I said to him , well I said you know , you think about it but I 'd already , sort of , made up my mind that I was n't gon na , sort of , next year anyway |
| 21 | I do n't , I 've never played it but I 'd certainly like to but |
| 22 | I was grateful for not only was I four years older than he but I would also be the oldest of the potential candidates . |
| 23 | By this time I was n't catching anything but I must just mention one more boat as even 1 found this one hard to believe . |
| 24 | The low rumble of a juggernaut seems to vibrate all around us but we can immediately turn towards a high-pitched sound , such as whistle being blown . |
| 25 | It 's magic , of course , and it brings great benefit to us but it could also have terrible dangers in store for us — just like magic carpets ! |