Example sentences of "but [noun] [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Jan dolloped out a huge spoon of honey into each plate and said to Darren : ‘ Eat your honey , darling , Granny 's been poisoning you , has n't she , and your mother as well ? ’ |
| 2 | Even a worm that would kill any interface stupid enough to blunder into it , but fear stoked up a hot red glow of anger inside her . |
| 3 | But Kylie had just the right look and style and character . |
| 4 | The reviews were not entirely dismissive , but Hardy remembered only the harsh comments in the Spectator , read ‘ as he sat on a stile leading to the eweleaze he had to cross on his way home to Bockhampton . |
| 5 | Shadow Northern Ireland secretary Kevin McNamara backed Mr Brooke , saying : ‘ The IRA are not soldiers but assassins carrying out a squalid murder campaign . ’ |
| 6 | The other Girls would have had to send money home but Jane set aside a similar sum to tide her over periods of unemployment . |
| 7 | There was an overwhelming stench of stale urine and sweat from inside the freight car but Graham swallowed back the rising bile in his throat and eased the door open further to see what else it might contain . |
| 8 | David Speedy 's goal enough to get all three points for Leicester and I think on the balance of play they just about edged it but Forest put up a marvellous performance in the second half especially when they had to make er changes and things did n't go well for them . |
| 9 | But questions remain over the long term benefits of the orphans ' visits . |
| 10 | But questions remain over the long term benefits of the orphans ' visits . |
| 11 | By 1952 almost all English education authorities had adopted an intelligence test in their selection process ; psychologists debated the effects of social agencies coaching and practice — on IQ scores ; but Hertfordshire gave up the eleven-plus exam altogether , after having had one for at least fifteen years . |
| 12 | It was confirmed that a new German rapid deployment force would be available for use within NATO by 1995 , but controversy continued over a proposed amendment of the constitutional prohibition on utilization of German armed forces outside the NATO area , to allow them to take part in UN peacekeeping operations . |
| 13 | Female shoplifting offences exceed those of men , but women commit only a small percentage of sexual crimes and crimes of violence . |
| 14 | Scott Gemmill played a one-two with Lee Glover and saw his shot blocked , but Glover picked up the loose ball to ram it low past Thorsvedt . |
| 15 | Reaction conditions are outlined at the foot of each flow scheme , but technology receives only a passing mention , with little discussion of modern peptide synthesisers on which so much of contemporary synthesis relies . |
| 16 | The rules are similar to professional weightlifting , but competitors use only the upper part of their bodies , keeping their head , shoulders , buttocks and heels on the bench at all times . |