Example sentences of "but it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | That did n't help the Black Destroyer , certainly , but it died because I made a mistake , and my power is so strong that when it goes wrong , which is seldom but not never , even those things I have invested with great protective power become vulnerable . |
| 2 | The expectations hypothesis may be a good starting point , but it assumes that individuals who take unhedged positions in futures markets ( i.e. speculators ) expect on average to earn only the risk-free rate . |
| 3 | THE United States said yesterday that it was studying the possibility of parachuting relief supplies to civilians in Bosnia , but it emphasised that such an operation might not be successful in the rugged country . |
| 4 | The UN maintains that the SWAPO units had no ’ aggressive intent ’ but it concedes that they broke the agreements by moving south out of Angola . |
| 5 | You pushed it away to the back recesses of your mind , but it crept and crawled about and then annoyingly broke through the surface again . |
| 6 | But it sounds like there is something wrong with John 's breathing . |
| 7 | But it sounds as though you suspect that . |
| 8 | But it sounds as though everything . |
| 9 | But it sounds as though he does n't realize that . |
| 10 | But it admits that there are ‘ ideas men ’ on board . |
| 11 | But it seemed that he had sparked something off . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm sorry to hear that , ’ the young man could not be sure , but it seemed that the child 's eyes were glittering with unshed tears . |
| 13 | But it seemed that the Parents ' Association thought fifty pounds a week for merely one phase of the competition excessive . |
| 14 | ‘ This was the time when the group should have started to become a real group , but it seemed that everybody had an opinion on how the record should sound and we ended up becoming less of a group . |
| 15 | But it seemed that the longed-for reunion with his family was not to take place . |
| 16 | But it seemed that only the one sentence had impinged on the queen-dowager 's consciousness . |
| 17 | Once or twice she re-issued her invitation to the Carrows to visit them at Four Winds , but it seemed that there were always perfectly valid reasons why they could not accept . |
| 18 | But it seemed that I was really ‘ into ’ funerals in a big way . |
| 19 | Whether he was around that night or not we 'll never know , but it seemed that everything that could go amiss , did . |
| 20 | She taught geography , but it seemed that there was only one country in the world and that was Ireland . |
| 21 | But it seemed that Sister Benedicta must sin a lot because she always seemed to get the dirty jobs . |
| 22 | Now as England players we were not allowed to give interviews during a game , but it seemed that all the Aussie players had their own programmes . |
| 23 | The situation was only just controllable , but it seemed that we might get to bed before midnight without being beaten up . |
| 24 | She had n't planned for a witness , but it seemed that she had one ; the woman was over on the iron steps , watching her across the restaurant deck . |
| 25 | At first I thought it was imagination , but it seemed that the breathing was becoming less stertorous . |
| 26 | I could n't see it too clearly 'cos it was at the other end of the pitch , but it seemed that Jamie had the ball around the right hand edge of the box and curled it into the top left hand corner . |
| 27 | The US secretary of state , Warren Christopher , said in Geneva that the major powers had agreed on negotiations , but it seemed that Mr Christopher did not have a cast-iron Palestinian commitment on new talks . |
| 28 | He had turned to fly around the eastern edge of the island 's encircling reefs and was now staring intently at the houses , searching for any signs of danger , but it seemed as though Murder Cay was deserted . |
| 29 | It sounded a trivial enough disturbance on the surface , but it seemed as though there might be substance in Tom Watt 's fears after all . |
| 30 | The editor 's introduction gives no real guidance on this , but it seemed as though standardised languages were given individual entries and the rest were included as members of a family . |