Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have liked to go on as we were , but nothing goes on , even for a short time , without making the kind of decision which was , in this case , clearly impossible . |
| 2 | Norman said : ‘ I could hear everyone and every so often I would try to speak out of force of habit , but nothing came out . ’ |
| 3 | For a moment he thought that Terry was going to say something important , because his mouth started to form a word , but nothing came out . |
| 4 | The Luton goal was hit by a landslide of shots … crosses and headers but nothing went in … |
| 5 | Suddenly I start puking into the road , but nothing comes up except this slimy stuff . |
| 6 | ‘ A bit rough , but nothing to worry about , Miss Fox . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I saw a couple of specialists but nothing showed up . |
| 8 | But no-one complained about yesterday 's figures , which sent the shares soaring 25p to 334p in a plunging stockmarket . |
| 9 | ‘ One can hardly appear wearing L-plates , but no-one stands up for their first performance of a great work saying : ‘ This is the definitive version . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Because I 'm b aadd , ’ he clowns , but them holds up his shaking hand , spreads his fingers and says : ‘ It 's because of this . |
| 11 | At the wedding , everyone but everyone came up to me to say , ‘ It wo n't be long before it 's your turn too , ’ or something similar , and each time somebody said it , I grew increasingly resentful . |
| 12 | James has always recalled this as a happy period in his racing career : F3 was friendly , money was short , but everyone mucked in together and drivers were friends , not just gigantic slot-machines into which money was to be poured . |
| 13 | ‘ We 're working on them , but everyone moved about so much except poor young Mr Vickers , who was in his workroom all the time . ’ |
| 14 | But everyone ends up hiding under the sheets , not too terrified , and a philosophical bear lollops back along the beach to his cave . |
| 15 | We 've taken some minor casualties of our own , but nothin' to worry about , they 're all walkin' wounded . |
| 16 | ‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night and could n't get back to sleep , so I decided to bake a cake , after all . |
| 17 | ‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night in agony . |
| 18 | I respect my hon. Friend 's strong personal feelings , but I point out to him that Parliament has expressed its view very strongly . |
| 19 | I said I had to piss , but I ran out of the house and walked around the streets wondering what the fuck to do and trying to imagine what Dad was saying to Mum and how she was taking it . |
| 20 | I suppose I was on my way to call for Millie , but I walk on past the house instead , obscurely ashamed to have caught her father unawares . |
| 21 | But I walk in yeah and he goes he goes hold on , now you 're Alistair , and I go yeah , and he goes I think I 've just given your three weekly to Jimmy . |
| 22 | I was crying outright now , and he made a move towards me which I sensed in the darkness , but I lashed out with my hand and knocked his arm down , and cried , " Leave me alone , that 's what you want to do ! " |
| 23 | He looked at me as though he had seen me somewhere before , but I passed by with a curt nod . |
| 24 | The treadmill is the hardest , but I keep on . |
| 25 | But I keep up the woods . |
| 26 | Buster Watson was expected to win the 100 metres , but I came through and clocked 10.4 seconds for a personal best and a county record , which still stands . |
| 27 | I was very unhappy , but I came back to France , to Paris . |
| 28 | But I came back as a Gnome . |
| 29 | ‘ I did , but I came back . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ But I came down to the theatre and was assured it was suitable for children so we came with open minds , ’ she said . |