Example sentences of "but [conj] [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very , very easily vaporises it , but and then when I do that I get minus sixteen plus I minus the square root off one thousand , one hundred and fifty six , all over two , plus minus sixteen , plus or minus what 's the square root of one thousand one hundred and fifty six ? |
| 2 | But if just once I feel I 've run as hard as I possible could , in good shape , and I 've still only done 27:50 , maybe I 'll be happy to say , ‘ Oh well , Solly , you 've been kidding yourself all along ’ . ’ |
| 3 | But if even if one was late from for school , he had a monitor on the doors to the outside world and when the whistle went for nine o'clock that door was closed and there The boys marshalled in the yard to er get in the lines and marched to the classes . |
| 4 | Yeah but but not while we 're there , I do n't think it 's must get another budgie sometime get Steven 's budgie or something . |
| 5 | But but even if he 's uninformed why should n't he speak ? |
| 6 | That 's right , yeah , but but now like I said , you 're gon na have to , to have your certain pipes . |
| 7 | This sort of argument is so commonly used in the social sciences that it almost passes unnoticed ; but as soon as one stops to think about it one is faced with the problem in hand . |
| 8 | But as soon as they come to rest the wings close and the animals become completely cryptic again . |
| 9 | But as soon as they are used to expand the production of consumer goods they will actually cause business conditions to deteriorate . |
| 10 | But as soon as they got out I realized I was wrong . |
| 11 | Spread over sixteen pages ( I , 56–71 ) these remarks function as part of a story , but as soon as they are put together it is a dull mind which does not reflect , ‘ Power corrupts , and absolute power corrupts absolutely ’ . |
| 12 | So you were — but as soon as they put you in my arms I could see you were no use to me ! ’ |
| 13 | Now , getting back to the comment the woman made earlier about men being misogynist within their own world I 'm quite convinced that a good deal of those men would go home to their wives and family and be very loving to their , to their wives and family , be respectful of their neighbours but as soon as they got in the all male environment , and this woman was there to be used , she was their property for the time that they paid their money to get through the door , they could be as misogynist , offensive and horrid as they wanted to be ! |
| 14 | They become very passive but as soon as they 've had the baby they 're back to their old selves again and you think , God , is it the same girl ? |
| 15 | The farmers going to market had come down from Barking and Ringshall and those places , and on the rough owd country roads they managed ; but as soon as they got to the tarred road in Needham street they had to stop . |
| 16 | But as soon as they reached the living room , she saw his face clearly in the light of the candles . |
| 17 | The advance guard of men on mules and horses came up in regular lines but as soon as they got near they dashed up at full gallop , shouting and brandishing their weapons , each man shrieking out how many men he had killed ; and then they wheeled round to make room for others . |
| 18 | But as soon as they move to hearsay they lapse immediately into the purely fantastic , and the stuff of which their fantasies are constructed is lifted direct from mythology . |
| 19 | There had been a few times , with my accent , I 'd been called names , but as soon as they knew I was Jewish I had a hundred mothers and brothers and fathers to take care of me . |
| 20 | Maggie put her hands up to push him away but as soon as they touched his skin her palms seemed to take on a life of their own , moving over the strong muscles , her fingers wanting to curl in the crisp black hair that lightly covered his chest . |
| 21 | Steve Royle says the pressure out on the water can run high , but as soon as they get to Heather 's , they can relax . |
| 22 | But as soon as they hear The Old Rugged Cross they 're fine again , ’ he said . |
| 23 | no , but as soon as they 've got their thingy in the they should be off . |
| 24 | Alone , the two girls were playful as they went about their tasks , mischievous at times , even carefully boisterous ; but as soon as their father came in they would sink into a beseeching drabness , cower as close to being invisible as they could . |
| 25 | But as soon as their friendship was struck the memory faded and the bad time seemed no worse than some null interlude between two boon companions . |
| 26 | But as soon as we had found our voice again , we were once more interrupted by visits from Berlin . |
| 27 | But as soon as we are tired of them and we have discharged our duties to society each day , we can say to ourselves : ‘ All those things are of the mundane , but I am of the transcendent , and therefore far above them . ’ |
| 28 | But as soon as we have to commit this question to paper we discover ( or we certainly should discover ) that this is a difficult question to ask with absolute clarity . |
| 29 | But as soon as we bring up this question … we come up against a ‘ sore subject ’ . |
| 30 | But as soon as we forget , just as soon as ‘ no praise ’ describes the situation in our hearts , ‘ No praise … self pride ’ will be the result . |