Example sentences of "but [adv] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is important we get these things right but basically we just want to add to the enjoyment of the displays . |
| 2 | Any production of ‘ A Midsummer Night 's Dream ’ with a host of well-known film stars , plus music by Mendelssohn , could not help but be of interest , but apparently it never did make a box-office fortune for MGM . |
| 3 | extent erm but obviously I also want to earn some money . |
| 4 | But somehow I just managed to miss Leading Aircraftsman by two per cent when I passed out . |
| 5 | ‘ I feel guilty because a teacher in school asked me to stay friends with her after we left , but somehow I never seem to have time . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It sounds lovely , but somehow I never seem to have time to make things like that ant as you know I usually go to the Humming Bird for lunch . ’ |
| 7 | The lieutenant had n't gone fifteen yards before the first bullet hit him , but somehow he still managed to carry on until he reached the wire . |
| 8 | The pages turn , but somehow it never seems to get going . |
| 9 | The main point here is that not only did the Labour leaders reject the left 's version of the social contract with its new emphasis on a radical industrial policy , but also they increasingly came to question even the Crosland/Fabian/ ‘ Keynesian ’ version of socialism , so that their politics in the latter half of the 1970s became more and more of a mere holding operation — mere ‘ government ’ lacking any social purpose with a broad popular appeal . |
| 10 | ‘ You mean they put out they 're into free fucking but really they just want to get hitched ? ’ |
| 11 | I did n't twig at the time but really she just wanted to hang out in the shop and she was coming up with any old excuse she could find to be in there . |
| 12 | The chances were slim indeed but now she really wanted to go . |
| 13 | ‘ But now you probably want to rest . |
| 14 | But now I really have to go . |
| 15 | No , I have n't done anything recently , but today I actually rang publishing one of the papers about Sabri 's release and spoke to a guy at the Herald and Post and someone at The Observer , said I hope you put something in this week . |
| 16 | I mean I know that now because I never thought I 'd be on the scrap heap , but sometimes I really do feel as if I am |
| 17 | you absolutely get them going off but sometimes you actually want to use all 's fair in love and war also actually use those sort of tactics . |
| 18 | ‘ The director told us to keep cool , ’ recalled Quinn , ‘ but then they really started getting heavy with Lloyd Nolan . |
| 19 | But then I finally stopped resisting and found that there 's a life in the land beyond the life of any one person , Thomas ; the lives of the people only stand in the way . ’ |
| 20 | So my mum went out but then she still had to read it all because I was under-age and she had to be there . |
| 21 | But unfortunately they sometimes do kill themselves , too . " |
| 22 | But again we also need to work out how much has been spent on claims and E W S on on work which is er higher than budgets but we can say okay , that 's not a direct result of deteriorating productivity , that 's a direct result of , of problems we 've got with temps and so on , that 's a problem we 've got with increased , increased work levels . |
| 23 | There must be thousands of cases of rape or child-abuse — apart from what the security forces are up to — but again they never get talked about . |