Example sentences of "[adv] but [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael sniggered behind Moran as soon as they were on the road together but it drew such a quelling look from Maggie that he went quiet . |
| 2 | And then it 'll give you the time just to relax together but I mean that , that 's why I say , Rudy has n't got a clue in this |
| 3 | A festoon blind , on the other hand , hangs like a curtain when it is down but it has vertical rows of rings on the back through which cord is threaded . |
| 4 | I got a new book today so but she taught that is was ha ! |
| 5 | The power to negotiate , which is central to compliance systems , is one which exists by implication only but one made possible because the law is not made concrete or specific . |
| 6 | I thought that , and I 'm not an expert in but I thought this was a penetrating critique and all goes well for how the department is handling in a very difficult starting situation , a most important matter but there is Mr spoke to me about this paper and er I think we will have to hear what Mr had to say , I do n't know who 's going to report that . |
| 7 | They stay in but he says that |
| 8 | She ran out and tried to send me away but I pretended Sabine was expecting me , so she took me to the studio . |
| 9 | Fran jerked her arm away but it did little to loosen the crushing grip of his powerful fingers . |
| 10 | Financially Henry treated his sons generously but he retained full power throughout his dominions . |
| 11 | No exactly but I think prior to that , we did do what you 're suggesting , we did go round all the areas , Dick , myself and Malcolm and Chris , walked round all the areas , told told the people what needed tidying up to go in the it was before we had the racking up by the way so it was more messy |
| 12 | With England staring at their greatest humiliation for nearly 50 years , he sent on a defender and explained : ‘ He 's not had the best of times lately but I believe this is the time to support certain people . |
| 13 | Well that 's interesting because yes we have we have discussed that and I do n't know whether the er the clerk wants to comment further but I think that is absolutely right and and if that could be taken further it would be of very positive benefit to you know the car parking problem for those people who want to shop on King Street and have difficulties in find a car parking space . |
| 14 | and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week |
| 15 | They kept peering about on all sides as though they knew that he was not far off but they seemed reluctant to leave the path . |
| 16 | Well I know you 're off but I mean that |
| 17 | Okay well they get they 've got lots of them to mark and they marked quickly but I Looks alright to me that . |
| 18 | Of course people must be advised carefully but it shows great lack of faith in human na in their abilities and a great arrogance on our part Mr Mayor if we fail to market the ideas simply because we do n't feel the populus are competent to understand it . |
| 19 | It might do , no not in our branch , well yeah , alright it does n't crop up but we have other words for it . |
| 20 | His best effort was a second to Chief Celt at Towcester , when he was not fully wound up but he went great guns for Steve Smith-Eccles in a fast bit of work I watched on the Line gallop on Waterhall on Wednesday morning . |
| 21 | Cathy had been assigned a tutor , she used to take her daughter along to a little school ( not her previous school ) and have lessons there in the staffroom : I never liked school before but I liked this as it was only half-past nine till half-past twelve so it was n't a long day and I could take Rebecca with me . |
| 22 | Sometimes a placenta simply lifted out but I had this one away from the cotyledons one by one , returning every few minutes to the hot water and antiseptic to re-soap my aching arms . |
| 23 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 24 | Erm no seriously I think it really should n't take long , you 're quite right to sort this matter out but I think three people really should go away and come back with a suggestion or a couple of suggestions . |
| 25 | You could do it roughly but we want this accurately . |
| 26 | The men stayed behind but we left next day . |
| 27 | that I really but I mean last year still not finished ! |
| 28 | And er I I do n't know where they 've gone now but I had some lovely photographs of these flats . |
| 29 | She was sober now but she felt ghastly . |
| 30 | Well but I mean that 's an example and as I say at this end where you 've no arousal you 're either asleep or dead , there 's no sort of performance performance of any sort and we talk about having those butterflies in the stomach do n't we ? |