Example sentences of "but [adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I failed to qualify : Ade Mafe just made it , but only got as far as the semi-final . |
| 2 | He set off with rucksack and typewriter on a round-the-world trip , but only got as far as New Orleans , where , ever the hopeless romantic , he fell in love with a girl he met on a park bench . |
| 3 | REBEL sea captain Jack Lammiman set sail from Whitby on his greatest journey yet to America but only got as far as Scarborough . |
| 4 | He did not feel so hostile to them as he did to the ravens , and merely ignored them , overflying them if they came too close but not behaving more aggressively than that . |
| 5 | As usual do not repeat but always reply as quickly as possible . |
| 6 | of the price but still had far more than 20 per cent . |
| 7 | She thought of the dark corner in the kitchen garden where discarded violets grew , pallid , but obstinately scented as strongly as their pampered descendants , grown in glassed-over frames and raised on beds of leaf-mould . |
| 8 | Her boyfriend , having disappeared during her pregnancy , returned and acted like a concerned father for a few months after the baby was born , even coming to live in Joanne 's house , but then left as suddenly as he had come , and all the family feel very bitter about this . |
| 9 | Experience seems to evolve from youth in a way not measured by the calendar : more like a river than a canal — which is what we knew but never saw so clearly as in these photographs . |
| 10 | She had misunderstood the subtleties of their relationship and cast him as an ineffectual married man , always complaining of his wife , always on the chat-up , but never getting any further than that . |