Example sentences of "but [prep] [noun] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after August 23 he no longer wanted to continue ; the present was best forgotten as soon as it slipped into the past . |
| 2 | ‘ But of course all you need to do is to turn the ignition off . ’ |
| 3 | Coleridge was under contract to the Morning Post , and had to spend some time in London ; but in October 1799 he walked in the Lake District with William and John Wordsworth , and after a certain period of indecision arrived at Greta Hall , Keswick , with his wife and family in August 1800 . |
| 4 | But in July 1855 he then carried out a change in his administration that was to have a far-reaching effect on the scheme . |
| 5 | But in September 1015 he appeared off Sandwich again , to initiate fourteen months of campaigning , largely against Æthelred 's son Edmund Ironside , and of an intensity not seen since the days of Alfred . |
| 6 | His name does not appear in university records of the time , but in September 1775 he was ordained in London , and appointed to curacies first at Tideswell , and in the following year at Wirksworth , also in Derbyshire , but at double the stipend , £60 p.a . |
| 7 | Steve succeeded John Sewell as Palace 's captain , but in September 1971 he moved over to Chelsea for a fee quoted as £170,000 , as Bert Head sought funds to reshape his squad for 1st Division survival . |
| 8 | Because of the outbreak of war he abandoned plans to do research and took an industrial job , but in September 1915 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a private soldier and served with the British Expeditionary Force . |
| 9 | But in September 1985 he joined forces with a man who was to play a large part in changing all that . |
| 10 | He and She can refer to the third party in either of the triangular relationships , but in Sonnet 2 He refers to the Friend 's future child , while in 3 She refers to the Friend 's mother ; in 50 and 51 He refers to the poet 's horse ! |
| 11 | He was awarded a benefit match with Jack Edwards on 17 October 1955 , when Leyton Orient were our visitors , but in March 1956 he inevitably moved on to a club where the immediate prospects were considerably brighter then at Selhurst Park . |
| 12 | The government had promised a White Paper on inner cities , but in March 1988 it produced instead a thirty-two page glossy colour brochure , Action for Cities , and twelve separate press releases . |
| 13 | ‘ But in May 1945 I did not know that they would be killed and I did not know until Count Tolstoy drew it to my attention in 1979 , 1980 and 1985 . |
| 14 | Between 1984/85 and 1988/89 the tax ratio fell very slightly , but in April 1989 it was still higher than it had been when the Conservatives took office . |
| 15 | He prospered there , but in April 1919 he was able to resign to become a lecturer at Birkbeck College , London . |
| 16 | But in April 1878 he was cautioned for being intoxicated while on duty , and when discovered drunk in 1882 was reduced to the second class . |
| 17 | In scene four , Anderson 's uneasiness is ultimately of his own making , but in scene six it is the confusing and confrontational nature of the speech situation he finds himself in which unnerves him . |
| 18 | He did not conspire against the regime , but in February 1659 he and other London republicans presented Richard Cromwell 's Parliament with the same subversive petition that had led Oliver Cromwell to dissolve his last Parliament a year earlier . |
| 19 | But in fact all we need to remember is this : |
| 20 | But in fact all I was doing was putting off the moment of reckoning . |
| 21 | But in fact those they sought to protect often did not act as if they were passive . |
| 22 | Until he was fifteen he had private tuition which concentrated on classics and law , but in August 1803 he was able , with much difficulty , to break away to sea , entering the Royal Navy in 1803 . |
| 23 | It could be said that his attitude is as a result of his poverty but in chapter three we meet a young boy called Chuck Little who ‘ did n't know where his next meal was coming from ’ but who was also ‘ a perfect gentleman ’ and when he is contrasted to Bob Ewell 's son Burris we see that they are both in similar circumstances . |
| 24 | In general , the rigorous derivation of a savings function by this route is likely to be complex , but in Section 8–4 we consider a simple two-period life-cycle model illustrative of this line of argument . |
| 25 | Solar energy is one source , but in section 9.3 you shall see that the major source is of internal origin . |
| 26 | He transformed the famous estate into one of the most modern training complexes in the world , but in November 1986 it was announced that Sangster and Dickinson were to part company , and the trainer took his skills to the USA . |
| 27 | In Hebrews chapter 10 verse 4 we read ‘ it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins ’ ( referring to the Old Testament sacrifices ) but in verse 12 we read ‘ But this man , after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever , sat down on the right hand of God . ’ |
| 28 | But from June 1 they will pay £5 and an additional 10p for each trip they make . |
| 29 | The YSP in late January approved what was described as the completion of the final stage of the local elections , but on April 13 it was reported that thousands had demonstrated in Aden to protest over the defeat of the capital 's mayor , Naji Othman , in what was described as a delayed election there which had enabled the YSP leadership to secure the return of its own preferred candidate . |
| 30 | At first he resisted the demand for a judicial inquiry , on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence , but on April 25 he received a note from the Israeli government , informing him that it possessed a letter from Vere Bird Jr dated Nov. 9 , 1988 , which confirmed the arms order . |