Example sentences of "but [pron] [modal v] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aisha 's insistent words in the grain store , as she shook her gold earrings and the bangles on her wrist , urging me to stay at home , but I could only gaze at her shoes and marvel at how exactly they matched her handbag . |
| 2 | So it 's not engaged , but you can still camp on to their handset , basically the computer , tell them when it 's next used . |
| 3 | There obviously are n't more than thirty one days in a month but we 'll just practice then counting from twenty now and we 'll stop at thirty nine |
| 4 | Collectivism would eventually lead to totalitarianism — fascism and communism are collectivist ideologies — but it would also surface in the bureaucratic thinking of Western governments and multinational corporations . |
| 5 | She would never mock it , he was certain of that , and he could not believe that she would be shocked , because she was far too experienced and sensible to waste energy on such a useless emotion ; but it would probably distress her , and she had enough distress to absorb without his adding to it . |