Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’ |
| 2 | Certainly the request of staff then could turn into of the panel erm but but I think at the same time if people want to look at the structure so that they have a complete view of the structural organisation |
| 3 | But I think in the few months that this administration has er , has been in office , it is encouraging to see that the county council is operating inside the budget , er , which I believe was actually set by the previous administration , erm , er over which we had no influence whatsoever . |
| 4 | ‘ But you parted with a few to find out where I live . |
| 5 | Smith inspected the United Boys ' Brigades of America with her in 1907 but she died in the same year of a tragic accident , not long after their return . |
| 6 | He looked expectantly at Sarah , but she sat for a few seconds before speaking . |
| 7 | They will allow themselves to be stripped of savings by bucket shop practitioners who are not , strictly speaking , licensed dealers , but who operate on the same principles . |
| 8 | But we stuck with the same tune that Wally had come up with . |
| 9 | In such phrases one sees a characteristic Tolkienian strength : his ideas were often paradoxical and had deep intellectual roots , but they appealed at the same time to simple things and to everyday experience . |
| 10 | There are new flat roof systems about which are supposed to be better , but they suffer from the same inherent disadvantages as their earlier counterparts . |
| 11 | Not only that , but he went for a few shots , bravely teasing back the initiative from Mushtaq and Waqar . |
| 12 | But he hesitated for no more than a moment before stepping inside and when the door was closed he took refuge in clowning . |
| 13 | He seemed to get over it , but he behaved in the same alarming manner in court this morning . |
| 14 | But it contrasts with the latter 's general emphasis on religion as an abortive form of protest by the underprivileged : ' … the sigh of the oppressed creature , the sentiment of a heartless world , and the soul of soulless conditions … the opium of the people ! ’ |
| 15 | But it seemed like every few months there 'd be another little trip up . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't know about that , but it came to the same thing , I suppose . |
| 17 | This happened once while I was at Binbrook , and we were all jailed for a week — well , con fined to our quarters , really , but it amounted to the same thing . |
| 18 | The glorification of action in Aeschylus ' Prometheus Bound is the antithesis of Sophocles ' endorsement of saintly passivity , but it rests on the same pessimistic basis . |
| 19 | This is all true , but it comes from the same Mr Punch whose magazine proudly carried a Maxwell tribute the week after the fat man died . |
| 20 | I appreciate that , but it comes in the same paragraph , so it , you must admit that it 's a little er , confusing . |
| 21 | ‘ No , I 'm a scientist , but it amounts to the same thing . ’ |
| 22 | The cult had remained after those who had brought it had embraced the gods of the Black Land , the true gods , the gods of the land in which they now lived , but it remained as no more than a fashion among the rich . |