Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [adj] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How 's the ankle ? ’ he enquired , and , causing her heart to palpitate ridiculously , he leaned down and across , and helped himself to her ankle , where a pair of small but pretty blue and greeny yellow bruises were now out . |
| 2 | Hanson bought the European Ever Ready business for £95m in 1981 but then sold the unprofitable continental operations to rival Duracell . |
| 3 | She was reluctant to let go of the roach at first but then she hurled it into the fire and got unsteadily to her feet , saying , ‘ I know what . ’ |
| 4 | Then they had their way and asked me the usual series of childish but charmingly eager questions about myself , about London , about England . |
| 5 | He has the advantage of having devised a series of self-contained but effectively linked novels , full of properly casual back-references , in which he can show his hero changing with circumstances from the exuberance of a young lieutenant , to whom personal courage , seamanlike skills and informed opportunism have brought reputation and wealth , to a middle-aged man still exuberant but oppressed with financial cares and by the continual malice of personal enemies . |