Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb -s] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | There 's been concern over this area for several years but nothing 's actually been done . |
| 5 | I know it 's on the grapevine that there have been problems with the cars , but nothing 's ever been said officially . |
| 6 | Suddenly I start puking into the road , but nothing comes up except this slimy stuff . |
| 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 | ‘ Some say I 'm a dour type of person , and maybe I am at times , but nothing means more to me than winning . |
| 12 | ‘ But no-one has ever tried , ’ argued Mould . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Because I 'm b aadd , ’ he clowns , but them holds up his shaking hand , spreads his fingers and says : ‘ It 's because of this . |
| 15 | Going to camp is like going on Pack holiday but everyone sleeps outside in tents . |
| 16 | Each family has their own fields in each suyo , but everyone works together on the same crop . |
| 17 | But everyone 's always been frightened of Fincara . |
| 18 | But everyone ends up hiding under the sheets , not too terrified , and a philosophical bear lollops back along the beach to his cave . |
| 19 | The fourth : the shops are half-empty but everyone finds enough to eat and clothe themselves with . |
| 20 | I mean I says , look I says , I 'm not , I 'm not saying you ca n't have your parties or whatever , I says but I says not in the bedrooms . |
| 21 | But I says how can they make money now , how can they make money out of that ? |
| 22 | trying to get through the , he says oh them people have left here , now you 'll have to , and he gives us another two numbers and that , I got through on one of the numbers and then er , I asked I says oh I says I did n't get me photograph and me plastic wallet , he says well you do n't really need them you know when you retired , but I says how can you go on the train , you sure of that ? |
| 23 | We have too little of this kind of thing ; Wittgenstein began it in Germany , but yours goes further . |
| 24 | ‘ But nobody plays badly on purpose and with a very hard spell coming up , we just have to dig in and hope we can turn things round . ’ |
| 25 | " But nobody knows where he is , what 'll I do in the meantime ? " |
| 26 | If they win at Faisalabad , their umpires cheat , and if they win at The Oval then they still cheat , but nobody knows how ! |
| 27 | Recently , we were having a debate in the Lords and we got on to nationalization and I said that one thing that we need to nationalize in this country is the Treasury , but nobody has ever succeeded . |
| 28 | Very slender ideas with which to cover such large areas , very slender indeed , but nobody has ever complained of monotony ; rather we are filled with wonder by an experience so moving and poetic . |
| 29 | But nobody has ever been able to decide which . |
| 30 | A quark supposedly has one third charge or two thirds charge , but nobody has ever managed to actually produced a free quark , but people do believe they exist because they explain almost all the properties that neutrons and protons have , and other particles . |