Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was only a couple of years older myself , but I knew enough never to believe a word he said . |
| 2 | ‘ But I 've nowhere else to go . ’ |
| 3 | I was so unhappy but I had nowhere else to go so I stayed until the baby was born . |
| 4 | But I had now finally to conclude that the love and the joy and the laughter that was Leslie had vanished for ever . |
| 5 | ‘ I would be glad to leave it , but I have nowhere else to go . ’ |
| 6 | By deprivation I mean that the parents or school recognized the child 's achievements , but only grudgingly , for example , ‘ You have done quite well ’ or ‘ You 've passed this exam , but you have still more to pass ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ But she came here specifically to see you ? ’ |
| 8 | But she turned up late to start off with . |
| 9 | Supposed to start at six , but we go in earlier to get stuff ready . |
| 10 | It will not be very comfortable for you there , but we have nowhere else to put you . |
| 11 | She ordered herself to stop looking at him , but there seemed nowhere else to look , and somehow her greedy eyes would not shut . |
| 12 | But he managed very effectively to isolate Benn and others who leaned towards a siege economy . |
| 13 | He was often away a fortnight or three weeks at a time , but he came back here to use the cleaner . ’ |
| 14 | He is about sixty and they should have retired him years ago , but he has nowhere else to go . |
| 15 | He knew of course that he never could meet them , but he wanted so badly to talk to them that he would get out their letters and pictures from his box of papers and talk quietly to them anyway . |
| 16 | We would certainly agree that it is an unusual adjective , and further that , as Bolinger says , it acts as an intensifier with the definite article , but it seems quite clearly to follow from this that it can not be a sense-qualifier of the sort which Bolinger has in mind . |
| 17 | But it flew well enough to confound the sceptics and won first place at the April 1978 Maryland Kite Festival . |