Example sentences of "[adv] but [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't say precisely how long but by this calculation it 's time for a bath . |
| 2 | ‘ There 'll be someone to take his place soon enough but with any luck they 'll just stick to violence . ’ |
| 3 | Its real speed changes during the journey sometimes it is more than fifty miles per hour , sometimes less but in two hours it goes the same distance as it would if its speed was fifty miles per hour all the time . |
| 4 | A depressive reaction of psychotic proportion frequently occurs alone but in other cases it may be replaced by a state of mania which may also , though more rarely , be found without swings into depression . |
| 5 | money in but in actual fact it 's , it 's going out faster than it 's coming in . |
| 6 | My own landlord did , in fairness , give me veiled offers of money ( bribes ) to move elsewhere but in all honesty I simply was n't streetwise enough to figure out what exactly he had in mind . |
| 7 | I really felt like crying because I did n't want to leave my family behind but within three weeks I would be back with them all again . |
| 8 | Now I think they have sep little tables now but in those days they were long , just long trestle tables . |
| 9 | They 're all rogues here but for some reason I like them , I 'm drawn to them . |
| 10 | It is very easy sometimes but with other works it is difficult if you get a score and you do n't know what the composer is thinking . |
| 11 | Military commanders sometimes push a salient forward but at other times they advance on a broad front . |
| 12 | I never saw him again but to this day I wish I could take him to Ibrox and watch the Rangers with him and maybe buy him a half and half pint at one of the Govan pubs . |
| 13 | that , that there are others equally we say that we women to determine what happens to their own bodies and their destiny is for them , I respect that view too but in those circumstances you do n't resolve problems by the majority whatever it happens to be determining what the minority will do . |
| 14 | Stephen said this very seriously but for some reason it made the wedge-faced sergeant guffaw . |