Example sentences of "[noun] but [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could do good but it does more bad |
| 2 | I do not remember whether we enlivened the day with a penny ride on a donkey round the White Stone pond but I regarded these donkeys with the respect and admiration rarely afforded by the keenest jockey for his mount and one of my day-dreams ( only once realised and then somehow a little disappointing ) was to save up three weeks ' pocket money and have a 3d ride in place of a Id one , which took you for at least a hundred yards along the Spaniards Road . |
| 3 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 4 | As you know erm we , we take the money here we do n't charge you for the talk but we give ten percent back to your W I so it 's a self funding situation . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's had trouble with campers , who 've broken down his fences and left fires that have caused a lot of damage — not Guides or Scouts , of course , who you know are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks but he puts all campers together and calls them all nuisances . ’ |
| 6 | The military passing by called up a helicopter which took her to hospital in Mogadishu but she died five minutes after her arrival . |
| 7 | In the last section we have come to the interesting conclusion that B may alone exist of all our variables but we reached that conclusion on a magnet shape not much used in practice . |
| 8 | fighting but you know last week , no it was n't , who was it ? |
| 9 | So the application is concerned with maintaining the accounting data and maintaining the integrity of that data but you have absolute flexibility in the tools that you use to access it and manipulate it and present it in your organization . |
| 10 | Mr Wright said there were three positive callers , praising Sure Style 's work but one admitted Sure Style had asked him to call the phone-in . |
| 11 | Charles says , with relish : ‘ I do n't know whether a psychologist would say it was the trauma of the divorce but she had real difficulty telling the truth purely because she liked to embellish things . |
| 12 | ‘ I still enjoy going to racing at Croft circuit but I think this year 's trip to the Isle of Man will be my swan song , ’ he said . |
| 13 | D. Farms are smaller than those of East Anglia but they use more labour . |
| 14 | We 'd rubbish each other in the columns but they ring each other up and scream with laughter . |
| 15 | ‘ People are often complaining about the council but I think this time they deserve some praise . ’ |
| 16 | She looked like a child but she had exceptional bone structure . |
| 17 | No , it was n't a conventional marriage but we gave each other what a lot of married people do n't : freedom . |
| 18 | Suppose a particular nationalized firm wants to institute a project that has a very favourable rate of return but which involves heavy capital outlays prior to any revenues being generated . |
| 19 | A pack of 18 Squiggles usually cost £10.50 from Schumi but we have 20 packs to give away absolutely free . |
| 20 | This is essentially a digging tool but it has another function I have always found particularly useful . |
| 21 | Community is part of the job but it needs good management ( paying teachers , costing the use of premises , the division of time other than that which is needed to provide the national curriculum ) as well as a personally felt sense of value . |
| 22 | Which is a fairly important job but I get paid shit . |
| 23 | The win took the Republic back up to second place in the Group behind Spain on goal difference but they had enough chances to close the six-goal gap on the pace-setters . |
| 24 | Its characteristics include adjustable string tension , a system which has been underrated in previous years but which has incalculable benefits to the regular club enthusiast . |
| 25 | ‘ It has been a closed shop for years but we conducted extensive lobbying of other clubs this time . |
| 26 | The domestic events of the spring of 1937 were not without importance but he took small part in them , and a cursory reading of the Cabinet minutes might suggest that he had already retired in mind . |
| 27 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 28 | They administered education in conformity with the law and the controls on grants for special places but they had considerable autonomy within those constraints . |
| 29 | Kitson 's views were derided by the establishment but he had important influence in both radical and lunatic fringe circles . |
| 30 | They quashed the murder charge but he got ten years for intent to wound resulting in death , plus , of course , half as much again because there was a firearm involved . ‘ |