Example sentences of "but [pron] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing is simply given and immediate . |
| 2 | But nothing was hitherto known of their work . |
| 3 | The warning was stark enough , but nothing was ever done . |
| 4 | But nothing was ever said to the rider . |
| 5 | ‘ If I did , I would have told the King 's Justices , but nothing was ever discovered about them or their dreadful deaths . ’ |
| 6 | His financial dealings led to a number of lawsuits and accusations of fraud , but nothing was ever proved against him . |
| 7 | The growth of beliefs over many centuries , during which new ideas were added to earlier ones but nothing was ever discarded , resulted in what appears to be a mass of confusing and sometimes contradictory elements . |
| 8 | But no-one 's ever put me under pressure . |
| 9 | ‘ But everyone is just trying to cope the best way they can with the injuries before them . |
| 10 | Firemen originally thought that workmen who are refurbishing the building were trapped inside , but everyone was eventually accounted for . |
| 11 | After many years and three gardens , the optimism is going well ; I still battle with my impatience , but I am finally coming to grips with giving the essentials of sustenance to the garden . |
| 12 | But I am completely lost at meetings and need an interpreter . |
| 13 | I am sure you already now that the WISE activities are important but I am just telling you all this in confirmation of your instincts … ’ |
| 14 | I do n't want you to think , Caroline that we are acquitting you rapidly , I will try to acquit you rapidly , but I am also delivering what you 've come for . |
| 15 | But I am also sitting in Dr Serafin 's study , with an essay on sense-data in my hand . |
| 16 | But I am also attracted by Graff 's suggestion that those who favoured a ‘ literary ’ , aesthetic , affective way of reading would then experience the satisfaction of working against the prevailing grain . |
| 17 | But I am well preserved , Alida thought , turning a little to the glass , I have taken care . |
| 18 | ‘ My swing has not really had to alter , but I am probably hitting my drives 20 yards shorter and I 'm needing two or three irons longer than I needed before the accident . ’ |
| 19 | But I am slowly getting better , with Anita 's help . |
| 20 | ‘ But I am close chaperoned , my lord , ’ Joan pointed out unhappily . |
| 21 | But I am still going to sit right at the back of the aeroplane away from you ! |
| 22 | The then Opposition spokesman said that would quickly be done , but I am still waiting for Labour Members to choose the subject for debate in the Select Committee . |
| 23 | I 'm talking about saving human life governments over the last twenty years , troops over the last twenty years , policemen over the last twenty years , laws over the last twenty years , and politicians , including myself , have all failed in all the efforts that we 've made including condemnation of violence , everything , but I am now saying that this dialogue is the best hope I 've seen or , surely I 'm entitled to say to the Prime Minister , alright given that I have said that why do n't you put me to the test ? |
| 24 | I am going to trade up from my Hunter HB31 soon , but I am hard pressed to find a production boat in the 37–40ft ( 11–12m ) range that I would really like to buy , even given the money . |
| 25 | But I am actually trying to get at is a slight development of what you 've said . |
| 26 | Very excited , very nervous also but I am relly looking forward to it . |
| 27 | You may have been single-minded about racing , but I was also tied into my work . |
| 28 | The moralistic female I was particularly thinking of was George Eliot , because Nietzsche , the German writer , actually complained that she was a particularly moralistic female , but I was also thinking of people like Mrs Henry Wood and Amy Le Fevre and a few others like that . |
| 29 | But I remember I 'd got a box on my mantlepiece erm not only was I using the pessaries but I was also taking these when the period was due . |
| 30 | But I was just lazing around on beaches . ’ |