Example sentences of "but [conj] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very , very easily vaporises it , but and then when I do that I get minus sixteen plus I minus the square root off one thousand , one hundred and fifty six , all over two , plus minus sixteen , plus or minus what 's the square root of one thousand one hundred and fifty six ? |
| 2 | But if just once I feel I 've run as hard as I possible could , in good shape , and I 've still only done 27:50 , maybe I 'll be happy to say , ‘ Oh well , Solly , you 've been kidding yourself all along ’ . ’ |
| 3 | But if not if , if I go up with them and I 'd go in with them . |
| 4 | But if even if one was late from for school , he had a monitor on the doors to the outside world and when the whistle went for nine o'clock that door was closed and there The boys marshalled in the yard to er get in the lines and marched to the classes . |
| 5 | Yeah but but not while we 're there , I do n't think it 's must get another budgie sometime get Steven 's budgie or something . |
| 6 | But but even if he 's uninformed why should n't he speak ? |
| 7 | That 's right , yeah , but but now like I said , you 're gon na have to , to have your certain pipes . |
| 8 | This pattern had never been noticed before , but as soon as researchers started looking for it , several case studies of what is now known as phonological dyslexia were reported in rapid succession in the early 1980s . |
| 9 | If the right foot remains there for several bars , the arms will be held still , but as soon as the left moves in front the arms will change . |
| 10 | But as soon as Blanco had dummied past a static defence Lions countered with their second try , in first-half injury time . |
| 11 | If the parties were drug-free they would be fine , but as soon as you go in you get offered drugs . ’ |
| 12 | You stand against everything I tell her , obstinately and in her hearing , you give me no support , but as soon as it 's convenient to you , you pack her off back downstairs . ’ |
| 13 | Alone , the two girls were playful as they went about their tasks , mischievous at times , even carefully boisterous ; but as soon as their father came in they would sink into a beseeching drabness , cower as close to being invisible as they could . |
| 14 | All I want is some friends , but as soon as I get some real good friends they go off and leave me . |
| 15 | ‘ The other day he seemed perfectly sound and was tried out , but as soon as he headed the ball he was in pain again . |
| 16 | ‘ The other day he seemed perfectly sound and was tried out , but as soon as he headed the ball he was in pain again . |
| 17 | But as soon as Nate heard about the latest strike , that was it . |
| 18 | But as soon as she walked in to see Keith he had faced her with a heap of newspaper and snippets of video-recordings . |
| 19 | But as soon as I get into bed and shut my eyes , this racket starts up . |
| 20 | But as soon as she saw the tooth , she lost interest . |
| 21 | But as soon as we had found our voice again , we were once more interrupted by visits from Berlin . |
| 22 | Even the most mild-mannered and good-natured mare is likely to approach her dinner bucket with her ears flat on her head , but as soon as she has buried her nose in the oats , she relaxes . |
| 23 | In London an increasing amount of space is being mothballed but as soon as there is demand it will be opened up again . |
| 24 | It was one he could easily have missed but as soon as it went in , any nerves were dispelled . |
| 25 | Throughout the General Election campaign , trade union leaders were invisible , but as soon as Mr Kinnock resigned as leader , they filled the television screens , explaining why they were going to put Mr John Smith in . |
| 26 | Two of his daughters lived ‘ in sin ’ without any comment from their father , but as soon as Louis the Pious inherited the crown , he banished these sisters to appease the Church and his own sensitive conscience . |
| 27 | Chancellor Kohl once tartly remarked , ‘ When you talk to them [ the French ] about economics , they scowl , but as soon as you start talking about their nuclear capability , their faces light up . ’ |
| 28 | David Beaton poulticed it every time he could get the old man to stay at peace long enough , but as soon as it started to heal Eachuinn would be up and about , restless , until the deep puncture festered and broke out again . |
| 29 | I have heard several organisations talking about the magic million , but as soon as you probe deeper , you soon discover that they do n't have the expertise or the infrastructure to collect anything like this sum . |
| 30 | But as soon as the name has merged with the object it designates , we must , conversely , resort to metaphor , allusion or allegory if we wish a more expressive term . |