Example sentences of "but [adv] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But unofficially doctors say the figure is closer to 3,500 . |
| 2 | For implicatures are not semantic inferences , but rather inferences based on both the content of what has been said and some specific assumptions about the cooperative nature of ordinary verbal interaction . |
| 3 | but rather painting divorced from all other considerations ' . |
| 4 | Initially nothing succeeds like success : but eventually success exceeds itself , and decline and despondency set in . |
| 5 | Everything happens slowly but eventually change becomes apparent as more business leaders realise the nonsense of wasting the talents of a large chunk of their workforce . |
| 6 | He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet . |
| 7 | As time ticked by at Gatwick , Keith feared there were last minute problems in Immigration , but eventually Mae passed through customs . |
| 8 | They spend a happy time in Venice , but eventually Martin departs . |
| 9 | There were competitors , but eventually Wisden outstripped these rivals and emerged as the cricketers ' bible . |
| 10 | They even crashed a getaway vehicle into a lorry , but eventually police tlost track of them . |
| 11 | Obviously unwilling , he asked for an absurd sum for doing so , but eventually Omar settled with him for a reasonable amount . |
| 12 | But secretly Keith feels a black man with a Filofax looks stupid . |
| 13 | But slowly places lost their mystery . |
| 14 | It was well past her bedtime , but little Nichola came running into the living room where her mum and dad were sitting . |
| 15 | But little Harry had wept — for his beloved sister 's absence and Lily had taken him secretly to visit her . |
| 16 | He beat up some woman who had to be put into hospital , but Little Liz forgave him . |
| 17 | But little Sylvia had no thoughts of money ; she was delighted with the cake and jelly and with the child-sized table and chair her father had made for her and the knitted doll from her mother . |
| 18 | Verses 2–3 : it was normal to employ professional embalmers — but perhaps Joseph wanted to avoid religious entanglements . |
| 19 | But perhaps Alida knew the remaining Misses Lavender best , after all . |
| 20 | But perhaps Narouz sent a messenger . |
| 21 | But perhaps Stuart had warned her . |
| 22 | But perhaps people tell him things that are untrue . |
| 23 | And maybe that is part of real life , maybe that is a fact of life that women have to take on board , but perhaps men have to take it on board a bit more as well . |
| 24 | But perhaps Malcolm had refused to come . |
| 25 | But perhaps Mains did not really need to polish up his public relations , but simply to brush aside some of the habits , and myths about his early career . |
| 26 | But perhaps television edged closer to the public , or the public edged closer to television , as the campaign progressed ? |
| 27 | But perhaps James does n't know it . |
| 28 | He rose then as if to go but impulsively Robyn caught at the sleeve of his robe . |
| 29 | But apparently Elmer wanted more from life . |
| 30 | But apparently people insisted that one stand up to do one 's piece , and I — successfully acclimatised to the horizontal by this time — refused to pander to this sort of nit-picking , and so passed my turn on to Cousin Josh with as much good grace as I could muster . |