Example sentences of "[pers pn] but [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It surprised me but it could easily have been tiredness from being out so long . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ He still has obligations to them but he could still become a priest again . |
| 4 | After all , he might be able to buy them but he could hardly force her to wear them , could he ? |
| 5 | The great thing about teddies is that you can love them … or leave them but you can never ignore them forever |
| 6 | At first the dog may only sniff at them but you should soon be able to encourage it to play with them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There was a figure on either side of him but I could only see Charlie Vaughan . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | I do n't , I 've never played it but I 'd certainly like to but |
| 15 | I was grateful for not only was I four years older than he but I would also be the oldest of the potential candidates . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ! |