Example sentences of "but [prep] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after carefully considering the plot and the situation , she accepted the raunchy bits , because she believed they were true to life . |
| 2 | Er but in certainly in the case of our bank , er we are most anxious to at least get people in through the door and see if we can find solutions to their problems , find ways of er developing smaller businesses , erm hopefully to reduce the massive unemployment figure that we have in this country . |
| 3 | Ben Alder has always seemed as impenetrable to me as a hi-fi magazine , but from up on the ridge it gives away its secrets and reveals a relatively simple ascent from the west up a long , inclining slope . |
| 4 | But from somewhere in the fog of received wisdom and what passed for it , struggling to be heard above the sound of cracking whips , a persistent and unrepentant voice relayed a subversive message . |
| 5 | Beaverbrook , indeed , who knew Law very well but was also addicted to dramatic interpretations , believed that the collapse of Law 's health stemmed partly from this destruction of his position as undisputed captain , maybe of ‘ the second eleven ’ in Churchill 's phrase , but at least of a team of like-minded , straightforward and loyal men . |
| 6 | In one case in 1944 , Scott LJ stated that the ‘ British principle of personal freedom , that every man should be presumed innocent until he is proved guilty , applies also to the police function of arrest — in a very modified degree , it is true , but at least to the extent of requiring them to be observant , receptive and open-minded and to notice any relevant circumstance which points either way , either to innocence or to guilt ’ . |
| 7 | But at least for the rest of us Johanna 's lovely face will serve as a terrible reminder that our teenage daughters — however self-sufficient they might seem — are probably more at peril as they blossom into womanhood than they ever were as little girls . |
| 8 | After three years of groping in the dark they have emerged not quite into sparkling sunshine but at least into the hint of a new dawn . |
| 9 | But at least on a stage production you 'll have rehearsed it all . |
| 10 | I 'm not saying necessarily in response to that resolution , but at least in the direction that we were hoping . |
| 11 | But at least in the midst of my misery I can own what I have instead of feeling I am a pawn in another 's game with rules that I can not stick to or change . |
| 12 | The prospects for creditors were not good , but at least by the end of the classical period they were mitigated by allowing settled land to pass , during the lifetime of an indebted trustee or beneficiary , into the ‘ beneficial possession ’ of a bonorum emptor . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd seen him like that so many times before , but at least after a couple of days he 'd say , ‘ Vicky , I got to clean up . ’ |