Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a ‘ chest case ’ for years and when I look back at the photographs of him he 's always trying to look normal but actually his face is pained from trying to breathe . |
| 2 | Sanchez should have left it alone but instead his header fell to Thomas who scored . |
| 3 | In all interpreting it is not only the technical skill of the interpreter which is important but also his attitude to the job and to the particular situation in which it has to be carried out ( R.W. Anderson , 1978 ) ; also important is his awareness of the different expression of the same meaning in different cultures ( ‘ the sense ’ of the message ; see Seleskovitch , 1978 ) . |
| 4 | Her wings might be old and her talons blunt but strangely her illness had sharpened her mind even more and she knew that somehow a chance would come . |
| 5 | At first it was n't too bad but soon his finger was prodding right inside her and that hurt , a sharp , squeaky sort of pain like someone drawing a fingernail across a sheet of plastic . |