Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC series ‘ Revolutions in Sound ’ , broadcast in 1988 , gave great publicity to the possibility of these records existing , but nothing has so far turned up . |
| 2 | but nothing appears much less likely |
| 3 | But no-one complained about yesterday 's figures , which sent the shares soaring 25p to 334p in a plunging stockmarket . |
| 4 | James has always recalled this as a happy period in his racing career : F3 was friendly , money was short , but everyone mucked in together and drivers were friends , not just gigantic slot-machines into which money was to be poured . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're working on them , but everyone moved about so much except poor young Mr Vickers , who was in his workroom all the time . ’ |
| 6 | How far all this was homesickness or a defensive strategy against ( anticipated ? ) rejection by the surrounding community , or just sheer stubbornness , I now ca n't tell , but I knew even then that it had nothing to do with the world in which I was trying to live . |
| 7 | But I knew straight away that you and that handsome husband of yours just had to be Leos ! ’ |
| 8 | I would have loved to have stayed because I really enjoy things like that , I love discos and get up and have a dance but I knew damn well that if I did I 'd be absolutely shattered today and I , I just would n't be with it so I , I said to Matthew I 'm going up . |
| 9 | But I knew very well the ones with fruits that we could eat , that provided food for birds , that had special flowers . |
| 10 | I was only a couple of years older myself , but I knew enough never to believe a word he said . |
| 11 | Mummy I walk home but I walk home really |
| 12 | No doubt my readers will have bigger and better examples of the persistence of facies which so fascinates me in this chapter , but I write as far as possible from my own experience . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I did n't get up Sunday , then I thought I 'd better go in to work on Monday , but I came home early and I 've been in bed ever since . ’ |
| 14 | It 's in my Quarter , of course — I do n't know how long he 's been dead but I went up there and the doctor was still there . |
| 15 | Oh it started in the end , I think it was the er starter motor , but I went home again and took Mandy 's car instead , because I thought I do n't want it to play up tonight , you know , in the car park so I 'll have to check it out tomorrow afternoon . |
| 16 | But I went back there just the other day and I noticed the ground is starting to hump up again . ’ |
| 17 | It looks even thinner than the main line but I set off anyway . |
| 18 | But I remember quite well when the first incandescent gas mantles came in . |
| 19 | But I remember only too well the time when we had nothing in the bank and we lived in rented property because we 'd sold our home to keep me racing . |
| 20 | What she told me about vegetable growing meant very little to me , so I can barely recall now what was said , except that she would let me have some strawberries on Monday for my brother 's supper , but I remember how easily the talk went , my unexpected visit serenely taken for granted , with no query as to why I had come . |
| 21 | That would have been rather But I come out here but I can not see you know you can just just get them I seen some in that |
| 22 | He defined shared values in the 1980s in the broadest sense , But I maintain not only that it is valid to speak about shared values in that sense , but also that it is that commonality that defines us as a society . |
| 23 | But I 've not yet met a bank who 's good at it . |
| 24 | ‘ But I 've not yet eaten , ’ he said . |
| 25 | But I 've just briefly looked at the education and training part of the General Secretary report and it says here , National College rammed a hundred and twenty four courses over a thirty week period attracting approximately seventeen hundred G M B representatives , a wide range of residential courses . |
| 26 | ‘ But I 've nowhere else to go . ’ |
| 27 | Sometimes then I was a bit embarrassed by it , because I thought I ought to be a little more revolutionary , but I 've always completely loathed violence and bloodshed and every time I dived into Marxism all I could think of was Lenin shooting the anarchists . |
| 28 | ‘ But I 've only just got here , ’ I said weakly . |
| 29 | ‘ But I 've only just got here , ’ bleated Stitch . |
| 30 | It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is … |