Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing came and a little before dawn the wind eased and he managed to close his eyes in the shelter of the old oak tree in which he had taken stance . |
| 2 | Initially , the infant perceives and the infant acts , but nothing suggests that the infant understands the relation between these perceptions and these actions . |
| 3 | After the Lord 's Test , further cures were tried , even a light weight metal sleeve over the elbow , but nothing worked and the unlucky Griffin was condemned to play out the remainder of the tour as an occasional batsman . |
| 4 | But nothing happened when I had her served so she had to go . |
| 5 | ‘ But nothing happened and I never heard from them . ’ |
| 6 | But nothing happened and Fenella felt a small , frail spiral of confidence and thought that the very suggestion that the Robemaker needed sentries at all indicated that he was not as all-powerful as they had feared . |
| 7 | ‘ Could 've been , but nothing to suggest that it was : her prints were all over the car and nobody else 's . ’ |
| 8 | I saw a river-bed , biting deep into the land , but nothing to suggest that a lake had ever been there or that man had ever trod there . |
| 9 | But no-one denied that times had changed . |
| 10 | Although they did n't know their names at the time , they spotted Dominic Wetherby and the American boy , Lee Horan , going into the public bar , but no-one suggested that the two parties should join up . |
| 11 | But no-one used that label in the ninth century ; nor did Charles ever call himself king of the West Franks : his own royal title was simply " king by the grace of God " . |
| 12 | claimed that his power was given to him by god , but everyone knew that the throne had been seized by his father . |
| 13 | But everyone agrees that it can be a useful therapeutic tool , easing the pain of dental treatment or curing diseases involving powerful but little-understood psychosomatic interactions , such as warts . |
| 14 | Although the royalists later alleged that the rebels had that morning received ‘ a double portion of oatmeal and whisky for incouragement ’ and that a ‘ graite many … that we took prisoners were drunk ’ , these must have been a fortunate minority , but everyone agrees that the prospect of action had had a reviving effect on even the hungriest and weariest . |
| 15 | Agreement at Edinburgh will not be easy , but everyone knows that the price of failure would be high . |
| 16 | ‘ That photo might not show that the prince was there , ’ he said , ‘ but everyone knows that he was . ’ |
| 17 | The Leader of the Opposition claims that he has been a consistent supporter of the Common Market for years , but everyone knows that he was a consistent and bitter opponent of it for many years . |
| 18 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
| 19 | Management and employees at Waterford Crystal have tried long and hard to turn around a company in severe difficulties but everyone realises that the process will not be complete until we generate an adequate return on investment . |
| 20 | But everyone sees that this is absurd . |
| 21 | ‘ I know , dear — there is a farm next door to us back on the dear old homestead and Daddy does usually describe himself as a farmer — but I meant that we capitalist parasites would be taking the place of the oxen , not the horny-handed salt-of-the-earth types cracking the whip over them . ’ |
| 22 | You must of course deal with the odd letters of criticism , but I trust that these can be viewed in proportion to those ( probably thousands ) of satisfied members , who are nevertheless unlikely to write in every month to say so . |
| 23 | I hoped that we could do that today , but I trust that we shall certainly have an opportunity tomorrow . |
| 24 | I 'm very sorry that as soon as I have finished this welcome this morning that I have got to leave you , and I am very sorry that I shall not be able to return this evening for your dinner which I would originally look forward very much to but I trust that you will enjoy the company of the Chairman of our Environmental Services Committee , Councillor Robin Draga , who is attending on my behalf . |
| 25 | And I know she knows , but I worry that maybe I have n't said the right words the right way . |
| 26 | When I was younger I was often upset by criticism and innuendo but I learnt that if you become involved with this kind of thing it will end up by gnawing you away . |
| 27 | I went around being nice to children for a while , being a sort of modern Pied Piper , but I learnt that they 're a manipulative lot and crazy for money , literally crazy for it , so I gave them the elbow . |
| 28 | During the time that I was at MainMan , David had become more and more removed from us , but I figured that that was because he was so busy and that was the way it was when you had become a big star . |
| 29 | I did n't have the faintest idea how this girl could help me but I knew that she was going to try . |
| 30 | But I knew that absurder things had happened in America and Britain — and in Spain . |