Example sentences of "but [pron] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Clarke/Gray/Bremner … ( ok so Bremner got semi-finals FA & play-off final in same year … but them almost relegation to D3 ! ! )
2 Yar , I think I got a copy but I just sort of filed it with all the Quality Manual stuff , as there were various different things which needed .
3 We all try to garden economically , but I sometimes despair of the bits-of-old-inner-tube school of gardening .
4 but its alright film as well
5 This is the date England had originally set aside for a friendly against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin but which both Robson and Jack Charlton agreed to abandon when they found themselves paired in the same World Cup group .
6 She lives somewhere by the Port , but she just sort of done a detour to come and have lunch with Jan .
7 One might have thought that these divisions would at least cease to operate in church , but there too Kerr advocates a rigid hierarchy : ‘ The best of all systems of arrangement is to place the family and their guests in front , strangers of position next behind them , and the upper and lower servants , together with strangers of their classes respectively , in successive order . ’
8 The arguments in favour are sufficient to induce the periodic sinking of test-bores , but they always jib against the stony beds of linguistic conservatism .
9 But they only shots they encountered were from cameras .
10 Thomas Gregory-Smith took three Hummersknott Darlington , wickets but they still Durham Johnson School 's total of 54 with four wickets in hand .
11 Ah but they still Newcastle .
12 But he just kind of strolled into the office and said ‘ Well …
13 I ca n't reproduce the way he talks — you 'll have to listen to him for yourself — but he just sort of zooms off .
14 and he said you know , he said they have n't been turning up at that chapel for them , when they 've preaching but you did n't crack on they knew anything about that but he just sort of said said no you know remain non-committal .
15 The date has obvious value if the story is a topical one but it also s the journalist to check how long he or she has held material .
16 I never meant it to happen , and I never meant to hurt you , Helen , honestly I did n't but it just kind of happened to me , and I thought I had to tell you , because I did n't want to … to cheat you and so on and I 'm really very fond of you , and I 'm sorry .
17 but it just means having trouble with er windows , er smoking house you know
18 Erm but it unfortunately things have not worked out with er this particular company .
19 But it literally sort of burnt the edge of the corner !
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