Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told no one , not even Méli , about my visit to Conchis , but I spent many hours conjecturing about the mysterious third person in the house . |
| 2 | But I expect many others to work on them after me and analyse them in their turn . |
| 3 | ‘ We will give franchisees all the training in selling and fitting them — it takes about 30 minutes to install one — but we find many people are keen on DIY and would want to do their own . ’ |
| 4 | Detectives have established a special squad to target known criminals , but they say many break-ins are committed by burglars already on bail for earlier crimes . |
| 5 | Usually , Mendel 's laws were obeyed , but they found many cases in which they were not . |
| 6 | These two cases look very different but they have many aspects in common . |
| 7 | The father did not say a word but he shovelled many sandwiches into his mouth and swatted the occasional fly which landed on his fat body . |
| 8 | I do n't know who killed him , but he had many enemies in Scotland . |
| 9 | She was the leader because she knew what she wanted to do , but he knew many things she did not , although she was not prepared to admit that to him . |
| 10 | But he acquired many followers and The Cloud of Unknowing describes in detail the strained antics of people who had embarked on an unhelpful quest for sensational experiences and weird and wonderful states of mind . |
| 11 | But he sang many roles in a 30-year career in which he rose to principal baritone at London 's Royal Opera House . |
| 12 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |
| 13 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 14 | In many ways the movement was a distant bogey but it worried many landowners whose rent rolls were hit by the heavy load of poor rates , now a quarterly impost almost everywhere . |
| 15 | The end point of return to work is something that can be measured , but it has many difficulties , particularly where there is significant unemployment . |
| 16 | This view may be initially attractive , but it has many difficulties ( Gale , 1968 ) . |
| 17 | But it has many advantages over other holographic transform methods . |