Example sentences of "but [subord] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody stepped down from the street and peered through the glass door but seeing Wycliffe went away again . |
| 2 | When Aubrey had accepted one of their many invitations to come on a lengthy visit , it did cross Harry 's mind that his resemblance to his sister might bring back painful memories , but although Aubrey had now been here over a week , he , Harry , had felt no desire to wish himself free of his engagement . |
| 3 | She remained in the room for a long while but although Carrie went there twice with tea for them , she found them talking in the Romany language and did not understand anything they said . |
| 4 | But if Hunt had now set his mark on the F1 scene and matured , at Team Hesketh matters were quite different . |
| 5 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 6 | There are five T'yungunz in the nest to feed , but if Steg takes too long catching dindins the young 'uns die of starvation ( as do I if I do without food for more than 15 nanoseconds ) . |
| 7 | On its own , this could prove a nice little facility for corporates to share their thoughts and ideas , but if Microsoft continues seriously to pursue the bottom-up , template approach , we can expect to see the bulletin board melded with the capabilities of electronic mail , Visual Basic and the company 's various database access tools . |
| 8 | Of course , there had been the event with the woman and that blue box , but if Etienne concentrated hard enough , he found that he was able to think that he 'd imagined it . |
| 9 | Shearer is in to stay , but while Taylor deliberates just who should be his partner up front Campbell plans to gate crash the party . |
| 10 | As a test of his strength Utnapishtim challenged him to stay awake for six days and seven nights — " But while Gilgamesh sat there resting on his haunches , a mist of sleep like soft wool teased from the fleece drifted over him , and Utnapishtim said to his wife , " Look at him now , the strong man who would have everlasting life , even now the mists of sleep are drifting over him . " " |
| 11 | But while Howard sits there , trying not to think about those 97,000 piled corpses , he apparently sits there thinking about coffee . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , I 'm so glad for you and George , ’ she said warmly , but when Elizabeth turned away to serve a customer , Tamar looked at Annie with a worried expression . |
| 13 | But when Siegfried drove away , the activity stopped abruptly and as I was leaving with my pockets stuffed with the equipment for my round I glanced into the sitting room and saw the young man stretched in his favourite chair . |
| 14 | The next few years were difficult for them all , but when Eb came home , gassed and disabled , he had done his best to put the shop back on a business footing — going in every day to work behind the counter , keeping the books , and not letting customers run up bills they could n't pay . |
| 15 | This The Waste Land did , but when Eliot writes elsewhere that any modern poet who applied himself to the drama would be an extremely conscious poet , using the historical imagination , it is clear that around the time of The Waste Land he was also considering writing plays . |
| 16 | But when Howard thinks seriously about the kind of rumours that are being spread around , he sees that it really is n't funny . |
| 17 | The blast which had flung down the doors at the front had strangely left the windows intact , but when Pat arrived home it was decided that it would be better to leave Julia in the bed in the cellar . |
| 18 | But when Graham left later , with something of the earlier benignity still binding him and Phoebe together , he had asked , |
| 19 | But when Angela arrived home and changed her baby 's nappy all was revealed . |
| 20 | But when Tess reached home , she discovered that the baby had fallen ill that afternoon . |
| 21 | Our President , Dick , sits on Industrial Injury Advisory Council , and does his utmost , but as Dick knows only too well , that the system is tangled up in red tape , and also Tory ministers who are busy cutting costs at the expense of injured workers . |
| 22 | No significant additions to IT are envisaged in the foreseeable future but as RBG becomes more independent and estates staff and records increase a review in five years will be essential . |
| 23 | Not flirt with the hired help , Merrill wanted to add , but as Rob winked conspiratorially at her she smiled . |
| 24 | But as Arthur says though perhaps some of the Asian words will start being used by the English people . |
| 25 | But as Spencer observes wryly , he was lucky there was n't a fire , though that was hardly possible without fuel … . |
| 26 | But as Cracknell knows only too well , the new industries based on electronics have little effect in reducing unemployment . |
| 27 | But as Claire walked away she was followed by the boyfriend . |