Example sentences of "but [verb] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of skeleton arguments has been popular with the Court of Appeal , but met with some resistance from some members of the Bar ( Blom-Cooper , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | Estimates of the numbers of political prisoners in Syria varied , but according to some sources about 3,500 still remained in prison . |
| 3 | But according to some husbands , the enthusiasm may seem less than wholehearted . |
| 4 | Certain games can be used to raise spatial awareness — preferably not as an end in themselves , but to lead into some sort of drama work . |
| 5 | But it is a necessary price to pay , if we want students to emerge with minds of their own , who do not merely know but understand in some depth what they know , and who are able to form and develop their own ideas . |
| 6 | More significantly still , these straight roads sometimes do not run to the nearest village but continue for some miles through open country , reaching the villages by means of side-roads . |
| 7 | The passages it cancelled had , in any case , as in certain programmes , not been lost but stored on some limbo disc from whence they must now be retrieved . |
| 8 | Dot knew that her father was at a place that Gloria rarely talked to other people about , but kept like some kind of secret . |
| 9 | As in Figure 1 , then , we have four principal categories of nomic or necessary connection , each involving some fundamental nomic connection but differing in some respect from each other category . |
| 10 | A Somali taxi-driver denounces those in his country who still think they can make a radical revolution , before turning to a discussion of the narcotic , khat , legally available in Britain but banned for some time in the US . |
| 11 | The ladies wore their underwear , which , far from revealing anything , seemed rather like a ribbed pink carapace , but did in some measure convey the sordidness of their profession . |
| 12 | His canny bank manager approach probably means he will hasten slowly but prepare for some stand-offs with his civil servants and possibly with the chairman of British Rail too . |
| 13 | Perhaps only thirty , but wearied by some excess or other , the burnished sepia of his skin barely concealing a sickly iridescence , as though there was a mercurial taint in his cells . |
| 14 | Nightbreed almost does , but fails for some reason I ca n't quite put my finger on . |