Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It may be age , ’ he says , ‘ but I 'm rather drawn to adversity and I like a good wash-out ; but nothing happens here except a steady loss of money . |
| 2 | Death should change things , but nothing changes here . |
| 3 | Various schemes had been tried on Easter Monday to raise money — chrysanthemum shows and egg and spoon races included — but nothing had really developed . |
| 4 | But nothing went right for Leeds as they pounded down on Liverpool 's goal . |
| 5 | There 's been concern over this area for several years but nothing 's actually been done . |
| 6 | I know it 's on the grapevine that there have been problems with the cars , but nothing 's ever been said officially . |
| 7 | The BBC series ‘ Revolutions in Sound ’ , broadcast in 1988 , gave great publicity to the possibility of these records existing , but nothing has so far turned up . |
| 8 | So much is going on inside — but nothing shows yet . |
| 9 | But nothing lasts forever … |
| 10 | but nothing appears much less likely |
| 11 | They waited but nothing happened so they made a fuss . |
| 12 | A few long-range efforts , but nothing to write home about . |
| 13 | ‘ Some say I 'm a dour type of person , and maybe I am at times , but nothing means more to me than winning . |
| 14 | When , in 1989 , we started to explore the involvement of this mechanism in passive avoidance learning , there had already been a lot of speculation in the molecular neurobiology literature about whether it would be possible to show that c-fos and c-jun were specifically activated during memory formation ; but no-one had yet done the key , unequivocal experiment . |
| 15 | The money would pay for everything anybody needed , but no-one had more than five or ten dollars in their pockets . |
| 16 | Various people came after Kathleen , but no-one came anywhere near taking her place for either of us . |
| 17 | ‘ But no-one has ever tried , ’ argued Mould . |
| 18 | Going to camp is like going on Pack holiday but everyone sleeps outside in tents . |
| 19 | Each family has their own fields in each suyo , but everyone works together on the same crop . |
| 20 | I had n't realized just how much I 'd got out of the swing of things but everyone helped as much as they could and I soon adjusted back again . |
| 21 | But everyone 's always been frightened of Fincara . |
| 22 | The fourth : the shops are half-empty but everyone finds enough to eat and clothe themselves with . |
| 23 | But I meant only to gain your consent — if I could . |
| 24 | At the rime his Jewish appearance did not strike me as peculiar because I had not yet got used to the idea of people thinking racially , but I learnt later that he was half Jewish and that he did this job to keep his Jewish wife out of trouble . |
| 25 | ‘ I was fighting the way I felt , but I knew deep inside what was happening to me . ’ |
| 26 | But I knew differently . |
| 27 | ‘ I shouted for someone to get him out , but I knew instantly that he could n't be saved . |
| 28 | ‘ I shouted for someone to get him out , but I knew instantly that he could n't be saved . |
| 29 | How far all this was homesickness or a defensive strategy against ( anticipated ? ) rejection by the surrounding community , or just sheer stubbornness , I now ca n't tell , but I knew even then that it had nothing to do with the world in which I was trying to live . |
| 30 | When they left , however , and I made the decision to stay , I knew it might be hard for me but I knew also that I was doing the right thing . |