Example sentences of "but [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medical supplies are going in from this country not only to help Moscow and St. Petersburg , but to go as far as Ekaterinburg , Tymen , Novokuznetsk , the Kiev oblast , the Donetsk oblast , and further afield . |
| 2 | They needed no second bidding but rode as fast as they could , not pausing until they thundered through the half-open gate of Godstowe Priory , putting the porter into such serious agitation he appeared almost sober for once . |
| 3 | But sit down quietly and , after a while , you become invisible . |
| 4 | And , in the Franks Report on ministerial handling of the conflict , we have an archive which not only shortens dramatically the interval before the normal release of classified information but goes considerably further than any disclosures at the end of the statutory thirty years in the amount of intelligence material displayed . |
| 5 | Alastair is based in London , but goes abroad now and again . |
| 6 | I came across from Oban — made a run for it , with the weather worsening all the time , but got here safely and made straight for our bay . |
| 7 | Owen was an older contemporary of Forbes and Darwin , but lived far longer than either of them ( 1804–92 ) ; it is often a good idea to outlive one 's opponents , but Owen 's bête noire was Huxley ( who outlived him ) , and by 1892 the world had become Darwinian and Owen seemed like a living fossil . |
| 8 | I did n't say much at those early stewards ' meetings , but realised very quickly that many of the very excellent people present were somewhat lacking in the ordinary muscle a steward requires to carry out his job quietly and efficiently . |
| 9 | Losing was one thing but to lose as spinelessly as the Welsh XV did to Bridgend on Saturday was to add insult to severely injured pride . |
| 10 | They have built much of their reputation on contemporary repertoire and arrangements of jazz and ragtime music , but demonstrated once again that they can play canonical repertoire with great musicality as well as flair . |
| 11 | Wilson found it agreeably ‘ refreshing ’ to face a customer not across a football-field-sized desk in a corporate headquarters but bobbing gently up and down in a houseboat on the Regents Canal , or over a pleasant weekend at Branson 's Oxford home . |
| 12 | They start at a slightly lower voltage than ordinary types ; also , they do not lose their power gradually , but die very suddenly when they are exhausted . |
| 13 | Hood : the hood is big but closes down well when the drawcord is pulled in to give a comfortable fit around the head . |
| 14 | ‘ There 's nothing we can do but hang on here and wait for morning , ’ Lawler said to his wife , helping her onto her feet . |
| 15 | She 'd a hundred times rather change last night 's husband on a daily basis , be reviled as a witch in the parliament of women , she 'd like to have dead babies in succession — she winced at this , ‘ Please , no ’ — but pressed on rather than be that nothing , that unbeing , that sump of ribaldry and pity and contempt , the woman-who-had-never-had-a man , the zitella , the old maid . |
| 16 | And so it was as the " candidate " that he spoke to them , his accent so neutral by now that he could have come from anywhere and everywhere , his green broadcloth jacket still shabby but worn as jauntily as if it had been lined with ermine , his lean , dark face handsome enough to please the women and hard enough to reassure the men . |
| 17 | I did n't repeat this in case it was untrue but heard about 9am that it was true and had been broadcast . |
| 18 | Bottom-placed Barrow came from 14-0 down after 10 minutes to level 24-24 at Bradford but finished as badly as they had started , leaking a further 12 points in the final 14 minutes . |
| 19 | It 's easy enough in the early stages , but gets devilishly hard as you get further on . |
| 20 | But wrap up well before you go through that garden because it 's enough to freeze you out there . |
| 21 | But to understand fully why and how they are allowed to do this , the above questions must be tackled and to do this I need to document the black kids ' experiences at two levels : the family and the school . |
| 22 | I bow over the toilet to retch but reverse away fast as last night 's urine smells like cat shit this morning . |
| 23 | Take stairs rather than lifts or escalators ; do not trudge up them as if you were mounting Everest but go as briskly as you can . |
| 24 | If you purchase Mozzarella at the supermarket , it may be in brine or be ready grated ; it is difficult to grate but melts more evenly if you make the effort . |
| 25 | Negotiations for sale to a would-be bistro owner had reached an advanced stage but fell through eventually because he was unable to raise the necessary capital , and the owners are anxious for a quick sale . |
| 26 | He leaned closer to the window , but saw even less as his breath fogged the glass . |
| 27 | She 'd wondered briefly about trying to pass the job along to Adele , but knew right away that it would n't work out ; she was supposed to be the unsentimental one , after all , the hard business-head and the scourge of the tradesmen . |
| 28 | John Major did not publicly denounce Mr Churchill , but went as far as hinting that he disapproved . |
| 29 | On 3 November he wrote to Hitler an effusive letter in which he heaped praise on the Axis ' conduct of the war and reiterated his conviction that victory would be theirs , but insisted yet again that Spain would be able to contribute only when fully rearmed and assured of its rewards . |
| 30 | Mansel 's left hand was upon him ; but though , I think , he would have licked it , the poor scrap never moved , but lay as still as an image , with his chin on his little paws and his eyes upon Mansel 's face . |