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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Norman said : ‘ I could hear everyone and every so often I would try to speak out of force of habit , but nothing came out . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But nothing went right for Leeds as they pounded down on Liverpool 's goal . |
| 8 | The Luton goal was hit by a landslide of shots … crosses and headers but nothing went in … |
| 9 | There 's been concern over this area for several years but nothing 's actually been done . |
| 10 | I know it 's on the grapevine that there have been problems with the cars , but nothing 's ever been said officially . |
| 11 | Suddenly I start puking into the road , but nothing comes up except this slimy stuff . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So much is going on inside — but nothing shows yet . |
| 14 | ‘ A bit rough , but nothing to worry about , Miss Fox . ’ |
| 15 | But nothing lasts forever … |
| 16 | but nothing appears much less likely |
| 17 | ‘ I saw a couple of specialists but nothing showed up . |
| 18 | They waited but nothing happened so they made a fuss . |
| 19 | A few long-range efforts , but nothing to write home about . |
| 20 | ‘ Some say I 'm a dour type of person , and maybe I am at times , but nothing means more to me than winning . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The money would pay for everything anybody needed , but no-one had more than five or ten dollars in their pockets . |
| 23 | Various people came after Kathleen , but no-one came anywhere near taking her place for either of us . |
| 24 | But no-one knew where he was . |
| 25 | She said : ‘ I went round to her house a couple of days later to see her but no-one knew where she was . |
| 26 | ‘ But no-one has ever tried , ’ argued Mould . |
| 27 | But no-one complained about yesterday 's figures , which sent the shares soaring 25p to 334p in a plunging stockmarket . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Because I 'm b aadd , ’ he clowns , but them holds up his shaking hand , spreads his fingers and says : ‘ It 's because of this . |
| 30 | 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 . |