Example sentences of "[pers pn] but [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His gallops have always impressed me but after a couple of disappointing runs on the flat his attentions were turned to the all-weather surfaces . |
| 2 | For a second I was mesmerised by the chasm before me but as the only way I was going to fall was it I made the effort to jump , I realised that I was actually enjoying the thrill of imagined danger . |
| 3 | explain that story at the end , was so fond of dragons that he adorned with drawings and carvings of them but when a real dragon heard of his infatuation |
| 4 | Normally we 'd be talking about him but because the tape recorder 's on |
| 5 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 6 | In the process area , there have been major developments in catalysts for polypropylene manufacture and in the technology for making chlorine and also ammonia — both very mature products indeed on the face of it but where the story has by no means ended , even after a century . |
| 7 | ‘ I built the business up after I bought it but as the City went down everything else went down with it , ’ mourns Haddad , who spent £600,000 buying and refurbishing Le Gamin . |
| 8 | If the lavatory is inaccessible , down a corridor , or dark and cold , the child may be reluctant to use it but if the parent accompanies the child and waits , he or she can gradually learn confidence . |
| 9 | Erm I mean I I do n't see it but if the opportunity came along I think it would be invidious to have a policy which er only allowed those exceptions in certain districts . |
| 10 | It appeared that when this alliance of powerful forces realized that some legalistic gloss over their environmental vandalism was necessary or desirable , not because they wanted it but because the public were increasingly becoming aware of pollution , they actively encouraged the legislature to formulate a bill which created the illusion of controlling corporations . |