Example sentences of "[adj] but [pron] [verb] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One job has led to another but I do remember a particular film audition which I walked out of , much to the concern of everyone , my agent , and the casting director . |
| 2 | Our role is to propose a prudent council tax and that is what we 've done and at the end of the day I agree , the figures are juggled one way or another but it does show a net saving of one point three million and however you look at it Mr Mayor I 'm sure the leader of the council , if he adopted these proposals , could then find somewhere a sum for a stress control officer . |
| 3 | Well I promised our our Sarah I 'd spend some time with her I ai n't gon na say too much but she does get a bit upset at times |
| 4 | ‘ I may not like London over much but I do know a bit about the place and one thing I know is that it 's big , bloody big . |
| 5 | This is tedious but it does provide an absolute calibration on which other devices can be based . |
| 6 | It 's still disturbing but it does have a certain grandeur . |
| 7 | Willy De Roose may have struck a lucky year enabling him to make the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to winter in the Arctic but he did do an enormous amount of preparation and historical reading beforehand for his planning of the voyage so that he was able to snatch opportunities whenever they came . |
| 8 | I 'm 30 , and I would n't go rushing into anything unexpected but I do think a great deal about this . ’ |
| 9 | It was an attempt at prohibition that was never wholly successful but it did set an example . |
| 10 | If your joints are good , no cramping is necessary but I did put a couple of webbing cramps on my chair just to be on the safe side . |
| 11 | ‘ CO&sub2 ; extract hops are expensive but they do give a good hop nose when they 're added in the conditioning tank . |