Example sentences of "but [verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susan is on the pill but wonders why she bothers when her husband is so sexually inactive . |
| 2 | Susan is on the pill but wonders why she bothers when her husband is so sexually inactive . |
| 3 | Yeah but look how it fitted me when I bought it . |
| 4 | She was a little horror when Drew took her over — but look how she played today . ’ |
| 5 | Anthropology for Eliot did not remake the myths , but showed how they had , while becoming the possessions of high culture , transmitted and not entirely transmuted primitive origins . |
| 6 | ‘ But remember how he said he lost the buckle the previous day . ’ |
| 7 | but know why I did . |
| 8 | Because some people do get the ten and some people can get to twelve but guess how they do it . |
| 9 | ‘ Explains perhaps , but knowing why he turned out a wrong ‘ un does n't make it easier to forgive and forget . ’ |
| 10 | But think how they marvelled then , the first time they glimpsed the grandiose space architecture of the Eladeldi , or the shining needle , a kilometre long , of the Vespa Omicron . |
| 11 | They 'd sent her fare , the people in Burnley ; " but think how she felt , such a little girl , she was only eleven , with nothing but her little tin box . |
| 12 | Today gives Mr Kinnock his chance , not to be serious about wanting to win - he has amply proven that — but to say why he deserves to win . |
| 13 | This last example of a conclusion is lengthy but notice how it confronts the question . |
| 14 | I do n't know , there 's a young doctor , but I can nae remember what she says , but see when I kneel a lot , Doctor |
| 15 | but see when you get two ? |
| 16 | I know it will be hard in a snow-covered countryside but see where he goes to . ’ |
| 17 | But see how it turned out in the end . ’ |