Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside-half Naas Botha , recently arrived from Italy , will be a reserve only tomorrow but should have more demanding duties in matches two and three in Wellington and Auckland next Wednesday and tomorrow week . |
| 2 | As the years went by , Dexter saw the look less frequently but when he did it irked him as much as ever . |
| 3 | Jane for two years she 's enjoyed the course so far but she thinks |
| 4 | you see , and he was , he , he probably brought me into the world , you see but , er you see , and Mrs erm , you see , she was married to Doctor and he used to come up to see my father and we had a different door then door being that 's got a yale lock on now but he he 'd say , hello Frank , you know always so you got , oh he was so nice and it was such a shame that he died |
| 5 | She had lost her fear long ago but she had not been close to a man like this for over two years . |
| 6 | About 300 metres of each , I 've torn to make the covers so far but I 'm still doing it because each one has to be the right size and colour-coded by room . |
| 7 | Swayne : ‘ Well , there was a wedding all right but it was Matthew who married the girl . ’ |
| 8 | I 've probably been in all the shops down there but I , I do n't know what the name is . |
| 9 | Print-on-paper publishing remains the dominant force in the information industry more widely but electronic media have established practical , affordable alternatives . |
| 10 | I do n't wish to take this analogy any further but if the teacher-research movement can succeed in raising the profile of research in everyday teaching , I am sure that it would lead to not only an improvement in the status of teachers but also act as a spur to research itself . |
| 11 | It becomes less important to Picasso later on but it is something which is constant for Matisse and it has always been recognised by critics who have described him as a painter 's painter . |
| 12 | ‘ We took Bobby straight there but it was touch-and-go for two hours . |
| 13 | and then finally we could finish off with Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men or whatever they want to call themselves from and they could say well we 're the guys in between we 've got clients out there but we have to deal with printers and estimators and this is what life is like for us . |
| 14 | Ah , ’ Samuel commented , eyes now anywhere but on Gwendolen ‘ how cruel is age , how poignantly Mr Dickens portrays it and how recognisable even today is Miss Peepy . ’ |
| 15 | Criteria I 've su criteria I 've suggested narrows the geography pretty precisely but if you felt the need , the local authorities felt the need , for even further protection it does seem to me from my own experience of the Nottinghamshire precedent it is possible if if you felt so inclined and the county was to agree you could narrow it even further by naming one or two erm local authorities such a site erm should be discovered . |
| 16 | The poetic canzone was a strophic form , like the musical frottola in which the same music was commonly fitted to each quatrain or tercet , carrying the words very distinctly but without reflecting their specific sense . |
| 17 | One should not endeavour to place boundaries around physical geography too firmly but an idea of the frontier zone with other disciplines may be essential to shape future developments . |
| 18 | A comment such as this can indicate to a friend that the person is working out their grief very strongly but is still stuck on the question : ‘ Is he gone for ever or is n't he ? ’ |
| 19 | Oh right erm but er well you can , you can get away without , without buying stuff erm I mean as I , as I say some people do end up sharing erm some people do end up , not that there 's very much library stock very often but , you know , some people do |
| 20 | The second is the claim that non-observation sentences face the tribunal of experience not singly but in groups . |
| 21 | The whole of the party were in excellent health and had well tried each others stamina in walking up mountains etc. etc. but having so many interesting objects in view they had allowed no difficulty or danger to impede their progress . |
| 22 | Alton Towers clearly is an exception but again , you have to pay a lot of money for it and it takes quite some time to get the return er , back and , and I would say that erm , many of Michael 's erm , er , organic erm , er , expenditure will , will erm , provide er , a really good return rather quicker but in the long run we think Alton is good . |
| 23 | However , the extent of the command in the Great Commission is not simply the spread of the gospel outwards territorially but down through the cultural layers . |
| 24 | Women compositors did not want equal pay , she wrote , for no girl of sense puts herself on the level of a comp all round but if the division of labour assigns her a task she can perform , what reason is there she should not do so ? |
| 25 | Where possible I 'll sand down obviously but there 's there |
| 26 | First , the producer sells his work not directly but to a distributive intermediary , who then becomes , in a majority of cases , his factual if often occasional employer . |
| 27 | ‘ Mother , ’ repeated Simon more loudly but with a rough caressing gentleness in his voice , ‘ He needs your help . ’ |
| 28 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
| 29 | I do n't think the prospect cheers Jane up particularly but What are you doing ? |
| 30 | Beaverbrook , indeed , who knew Law very well but was also addicted to dramatic interpretations , believed that the collapse of Law 's health stemmed partly from this destruction of his position as undisputed captain , maybe of ‘ the second eleven ’ in Churchill 's phrase , but at least of a team of like-minded , straightforward and loyal men . |