Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For I have news of great moment to report , viz. that on Friday last by a night when the moon shone but weakly we had intelligence that our neighbours in this land were embarked upon a most fiendish and treacherous Enterprise , namely to do every man among us fatal harm while we were still sleeping in our beds . |
| 2 | But yo , but luckily we had to check our bottles to make sure there 's no peroxides in them . |
| 3 | Such studies are rare , but luckily one exists of an area from which emigration to Britain has occurred ( Mamdani : The Myth of Population Control , Monthly Review Press , 1972 ) . |
| 4 | They say that the food is very rich , but luckily they 've got plenty of room in their dresses ! |
| 5 | Bishop said : ‘ It really was panic stations , but luckily they delayed the plane for half an hour otherwise I would have been in real trouble . ’ |
| 6 | Actually it was lucky that we went right over all three lanes of the motorway , there was a lot of people behind us , but luckily they saw the tyres , and they backed off , but we could have finished up in a real |
| 7 | But luckily he kept his distance and never quite found the courage to have a go at her . |
| 8 | At that point people were not giving much for his chances , but luckily he had no internal injuries . |
| 9 | It set fire to the sheets , but luckily he managed to put the flames out with some water . ’ |
| 10 | Bob is still waiting to be summoned by Paisley Hospital , but luckily he has had very little trouble meanwhile . |
| 11 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 12 | This is an easy way to have a number of gliders wrecked by the wind , but luckily it does not occur very often . |
| 13 | The tree was so big that , if it had fallen into the clearing , it would have flattened most of the gathering , but luckily it went in the other direction , toppling over the cliffside . |
| 14 | I braced myself for the explosion but luckily it went between the wheels . |
| 15 | erm but luckily she 's rubbed it out with thingy so |
| 16 | I felt uneasy and the back of my neck was prickly with sweat , but relentlessly I kept the same pace towards them . |
| 17 | But instinctively she knew she had what she wanted — the frames that would lend just the breadth and depth she needed to complete her picture story of the couture shows , and she let her camera fall back on its strap around her neck , rubbing her aching eyes and running her fingers up under the thick fringe of dark blonde hair that barely skimmed them . |
| 18 | But instinctively he knew that she needed gentle loving , the hard , penetrating loving would come later . |
| 19 | one great sporting event that is changing is the Le mans 24 hour race … many of the great names were missing over the weekend … but thankfully one lives … |
| 20 | ‘ Whoever did it must have been aiming at her head but thankfully they missed . |
| 21 | Obviously cock-ups like this we can well do without , but thankfully it does n't detract from the game too much . |
| 22 | Perth has a wonderful setting , and Sydney is beautiful with a really cosmopolitan bustle , but thankfully it does not have the enormous traffic jams which characterise so many cities of this type . |
| 23 | ‘ But thankfully it looks like things 'll be gittin' back to normal again round these parts . |
| 24 | ‘ He had the chance to join every top club in the country , but thankfully he chose Spurs . ’ |
| 25 | His nickname is Crash but thankfully he has never done that . |
| 26 | His face was chalk-white and wore a dazed expression , and the uniform he was wearing was crumpled and torn but thankfully he did n't appear to be badly injured . |
| 27 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 28 | The Unix festival , UniForum ‘ 93 , did n't feel as successful a show as it was last year : it was spread out over a lot more acreage and split into two widely separated pavilions , and attendance looked sparse and the aisles empty despite show management 's claims of a 10% increase in traffic — like as not , it was talking about the pre-registration which was up , but unofficially we hear attendance was down ; UniForum is still more a Unix celebration than anything else but it remains to be seen whether there will still be things to celebrate or whether erosion has set in . |
| 29 | McCallen had problems with the carburration and as a result he never really got into the final practice but unofficially he lapped at over 119 mph only three seconds behind the overall leader Carl Fogarty . |
| 30 | But fundamentally what succeeds is what keeps people listening or watching and so forth , and I 'm suggesting that that 's something to do , it , it 's something to do with being interesting and relevant and catching the imagination of that particular audience group . |