Example sentences of "but [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ross fished around with the scope , looking frantically for his target , but nothing would stay still . |
| 2 | I was playing well , but nothing would go right for me . |
| 3 | But nothing would settle the issue more abruptly than a DoH response to a challenge issued by Pam Charlwood who , when Institute of Health Services Management director , demanded the government ‘ sort out the differences between social and health care ’ . |
| 4 | I did n't want to at all , but nothing would make her change her mind . |
| 5 | Christy was playing unbelievable golf , but nothing would drop for him . |
| 6 | He was one of the most accomplished debaters in the Government but nothing would have saved him from the mauling . |
| 7 | Bristol did n't have their strongest side out but nothing would have stopped Gloucester on saturday … skipper Ian Smith scored the last try … 38-11 … just what coach keith richardson wanted |
| 8 | She knew she was clutching at straws but nothing would get her up the West End . |
| 9 | Firstly , the makers wanted to make Henry blacker , but nothing would stick to his wiry , go-anywhere , wash-it-and-leave-it coat . |
| 10 | He 'd got thinner and the blue eyes were getting watery , but nothing would persuade him to rest . |
| 11 | Barbara knows all this , but nothing will deter her from blaming Ben for everything she does not like . ’ |
| 12 | You can plan as much as you like , but nothing will change facts . |
| 13 | Your wife will be frightened , but nothing will happen to her , of course . |
| 14 | In fact , options or at least verbal commitments will have been obtained already for some special buys which are wanted , but nothing will have been the subject of a formal order to any of the media before this . |
| 15 | But nothing can make up for the fact that any improvements in prescribing practice are too late to save Lexie . |
| 16 | But nothing can alter the fact that all propositions about experiences can in principle be paraphrased into propositions about certain neuro-physiological events — if not without any sacrifice of meaning , then certainly without any loss of truth . |
| 17 | I 've cut down on all the exercise I felt necessary to do and always have fourth helpings but nothing can bring back my third chin , I do n't know what to do , ’ said the man . |
| 18 | People try to beat that misery with barbiturates , but nothing can cure it because you 've taken away from yourself all chance of feeling pleasure . |
| 19 | Nowadays , it is rather more garish , a popular halt for coaches , but nothing can detract from the superb views over the rocky coast and lovely sands , the road serving as a promenade . |
| 20 | Other things may play their part in helping us to understand , but nothing can take its place . |
| 21 | But nothing can take away the pleasure that I derived from looking at what I took to be a photograph . |
| 22 | Things can go in , but nothing can get out . |
| 23 | Ian was later murdered by a terrorist bomb but nothing can destroy the memory of a unique politician and man . |
| 24 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 25 | The caffeine gives her numbed brain cells a temporary boost but nothing can increase the speed with which the body disposes of alcohol , and the coffee does n't make her any more sober . |
| 26 | From 1935 Noel was increasingly oppressed by the diabetes from which he suffered , blindness , and a cancerous growth , but nothing could dampen his spirits , and when he could no longer sing the liturgy , he learned it off by heart . |
| 27 | The day was high and bright , the salt tang seasoning the after-pulse of summer heat which still hung in the air , but nothing could shift my sense of despondency , nagging depression . |
| 28 | Their acquiescence was to be encouraged by a campaign of information and by mobilising convinced peasants to persuade recalcitrant ones , but nothing could stop the tractors from moving in on the appointed day . |
| 29 | But nothing could stop him now . |
| 30 | At this Mr Mitchell may have regretted his generosity for he coloured , but nothing could stop Granny when she wanted to create a drama . |