Example sentences of "but [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For I have news of great moment to report , viz. that on Friday last by a night when the moon shone but weakly we had intelligence that our neighbours in this land were embarked upon a most fiendish and treacherous Enterprise , namely to do every man among us fatal harm while we were still sleeping in our beds . |
| 2 | ‘ He had the chance to join every top club in the country , but thankfully he chose Spurs . ’ |
| 3 | The Unix festival , UniForum ‘ 93 , did n't feel as successful a show as it was last year : it was spread out over a lot more acreage and split into two widely separated pavilions , and attendance looked sparse and the aisles empty despite show management 's claims of a 10% increase in traffic — like as not , it was talking about the pre-registration which was up , but unofficially we hear attendance was down ; UniForum is still more a Unix celebration than anything else but it remains to be seen whether there will still be things to celebrate or whether erosion has set in . |
| 4 | You might get a real bad one and then you had a rough time but mostly they gave way and very often , if you got a drunk , another policeman saw you were having some difficulty . |
| 5 | They took his men , restored them to health , and brought them safely to Pasaje , where they were nearly taken by the Spanish , but eventually they reached England at the end of 1583 to find that Edward Hayes [ q.v. ] , whose Golden Hind was the only vessel to survive , accused Clerke of having cast away the Delight . |
| 6 | But perhaps you have friends now , and do n't want to spend much time in a lonely house with a blind man like me . ’ |
| 7 | But perhaps you have friends who could-if it was important to them . ’ |
| 8 | But perhaps you have children enough , or see no need for them . ’ |
| 9 | I think later on perhaps it 's easier erm but basically I think boys need to be discouraged from assuming that they know what women 's position is . |
| 10 | I do n't know Ron but obviously I know Ron . |
| 11 | A plane cabin tries to fool you with the same set-up , but suddenly it meets turbulence , bumps and jolts , and three hundred of you sit there thinking of the drop beneath . |
| 12 | 1978 's ‘ Kaya ’ was a massive seller , delivering ‘ Satisfy My Soul ’ and ‘ Is This Love ’ to the charts , but generally it found Marley coasting . |
| 13 | But gradually he gained confidence . |
| 14 | A thought seemed to strike Maria and she added , ‘ They always spoke English together , but once I overheard Signor Diomede remark in Italian how little she had changed . ’ |
| 15 | The disclosures have helped Saatchi 's shares to a 50p rise in the past two weeks , but yesterday they fell 3p to 344p . |
| 16 | But yesterday he gave Largue , of Acklam Road , Middlesbrough , a community service order for 100 hours and ordered him to pay £500 costs . |
| 17 | Some of these decisions remained dead letters in the event , but collectively they demonstrated de Gaulle 's determination that the only qualified civilian authority in liberated France would be the CFLN . |
| 18 | Most of what he heard he already knew , but still he made notes . |
| 19 | She doubted if it was anywhere near the truth , but clearly it made Miss Beard happy . |
| 20 | All we can do is hope that Mrs W. will cool off and in the meantime , Edward , I 'm sorry but honestly I think Mary or Janice had better take over Junior Biology . ’ |
| 21 | erm potentially , in a rich soil , in a wide range of erm crops , of course , coffee , cotton , tea , especially have been export earners in the past , but also they produce sugar and erm basic foodstuffs . |
| 22 | But also they have guest speakers , so there 's motivational stuff there which you always will need in sales , yes , and also the awards . |
| 23 | Fry was a connoisseur of Renaissance art , but also he defended Post-Impressionism ( a term he invented ) , was a painter , and published a monograph on Cézanne . |
| 24 | Burun loves power , but also he desires order in the land and so he will protect me . |
| 25 | But inevitably it robs women of their strength and power and cramps their personality . |
| 26 | ‘ Very kind of you , Celia , but really I think Anna would like to do it . ’ |
| 27 | But often she had men staying with her . |
| 28 | The fires continued to burn , but now they produced blankets of smoke as dark and dense as black treacle . |
| 29 | But now they face eviction and the prospect of unemployment . |
| 30 | Bangers and mash is said to be the thing many newly converted vegetarians miss , but now they need pine no longer . |