Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them opened on to storerooms , or offices , which he was n't interested in , but eventually he found one door that opened into a chemical laboratory whose air was tangy with scents that irritated the nasal and throat passages . |
| 2 | The suggestion of Trotter ( 1949 ) that the whole of the South Wales coalfield was underlain by a regional thrust plane , probably represented at surface by the Careg Cennen disturbance , was scornfully rejected by O. T. Jones and others in one of the Geological Society 's historic controversies , but perhaps it deserves critical reconsideration in the light of recent ideas about deep crustal detachment zones . |
| 3 | But perhaps I give that impression because I have strong views on certain subjects and because I do n't go in for the social whirl , for fast cars and fast women . ’ |
| 4 | But basically I think most courses now , not sure there 's actually a legal requirement , I do n't think it is , but most of them want a at least a year 's sort of full time experience in erm , you know , d dealing with underprivileged people really and their problems and people who ca n't cope for one reason or another , and how er y you can er er sort of help them and what sort of relationship you can build with them and so on , and how |
| 5 | They did n't go into details , but apparently they have medical records from their own GP and a letter from their local hospital . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But inside I feel more compassion , really quite deeply — it 's just hard to let it show . ’ |
| 7 | The heat of the windless afternoon lay on her like a blanket , but suddenly she felt deathly cold . |
| 8 | Like Tamas , most draft dodgers are barely in their twenties , but already they exhibit classic symptoms of exile 's syndrome : relief at getting out , guilt at leaving their family and friends behind and an unbreakable addiction to the news about the wars in former Yugoslavia . |
| 9 | But anyway I remember one time and it er I think it was Christmas time , and there was a German they brought Germans in just same as us you know Fritz . |
| 10 | But finally I saw one animal come through the grass to play . |
| 11 | But once we use Christian values to complete it , it renders the system logically inconsistent ; because we can not introduce Christian values on a piecemeal basis . |
| 12 | ‘ People are coming here drunk , worried or tired of the chores of the world , but always they leave this place refreshed . ’ |
| 13 | I suppose it could sound like a conscious courtesy — an agreeable gesture , but hardly one denoting that love has roots below the gum of consciousness . |
| 14 | Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked . |
| 15 | I was miserable at the time , but later I realised Heavenly Father was looking after me because if Aunt Mary had said play , we 'd have gone out , and I 'd have missed the breakthrough . |
| 16 | I think I 'd like to start by making a few general points , er and then er it will be a matter for for others to be somewhat more specific , I I I think I can say that the issue of a new settlement of a new settlement in Greater York is is a fairly unique situation , because we have agreement between the development industry and the County Council , and that 's something of a rarity , but also we have mild support from the Department of the Environment , and as Mr Davis has already said , that is backed by public support . |
| 17 | They practise their swing , but often they pay little attention to the situation at hand . |
| 18 | By day the alleys that ran into a scruffy hinterland were rat-hole rubbish traps but now they seemed romantic lanes where lovers might meet under the bracket lamps and as the sun departed , watch the moon ride over a Grimms ' fairy tale huddle of pinnacled rooftops . |
| 19 | The several sects of Dissenters are glad to be rid of Popery also ; but now they expect glorious days for themselves " . |
| 20 | Thirty years ago , rubbing a cut clove of garlic round the salad bowl was considered daring , but now we import 4,572 tonnes of the stuff , mainly from Italy , Spain and France , and as well as its wide ranging culinary uses there is increasing interest in its medicinal powers . |
| 21 | And on the front page they say : ‘ We did n't want to share our sorrow but now we have good news to tell . ’ |
| 22 | But now we have good news to tell that we 're going to have a baby some time in December or January . ’ |
| 23 | But now we have good news to tell . ’ |
| 24 | But now we have good news to tell . ’ |
| 25 | Later she would agonise over all the might have beens , but now she had other things on her mind , things that would n't wait . |
| 26 | But now she denied that memory . |
| 27 | But now it seemed this Adam Burns was determined to dredge up her other life all over again . |
| 28 | Manchester at first lost out very badly on rail investment , but now it has some compensation in the Windsor Link and is going ahead with an advanced tram system that will take over a number of heavy rail routes . |
| 29 | But now he has other plans : ‘ I used to think I was a female in a male body . |
| 30 | But now I slept this morning on the settee . |