Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that telling them would be hard but nothing prepared me for their anger and grief during our final month together . |
| 2 | ‘ I was expecting it to be bad , but nothing prepared me for this ! ’ |
| 3 | He had courage , but nothing to back it up . |
| 4 | He tried to live an ordinary life , working as a bus driver , and accounts clerk at Harrods and later studying for a zoology degree , but nothing made him content . |
| 5 | But nothing reached her from the other cabin . |
| 6 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |
| 7 | I walked them for three or four hours a day , but nothing tired them or won their love . |
| 8 | There is plenty of money in the country , but nothing to spend it on . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I 've got loads of records but nothing to play them on . |
| 10 | I have seen photographs of orca , both still and movie , close-up and underwater , but nothing prepares me for the sight of a real one that scythes out of the water 100 metres or so away from the boat . |
| 11 | But nothing prepares you for four and a half hours climbing up crumbling ice . |
| 12 | ‘ But nothing prepares you for the blinding flash of flares and the noise of the thundercrackers as you run on to the field . |
| 13 | But nothing matched it precisely . |
| 14 | When told how Evans had been rumbled , St Helens chairman Eric Latham said : ‘ It 's news to me — but nothing surprises me anymore . |
| 15 | But nothing gave me the right to say it now . |
| 16 | Everyone loved him , but no-one realised he was special . |
| 17 | They told people for years that they lived like brother and sister — but no-one believed them . |
| 18 | A phone rang in the office beyond the desk , but no-one answered it . |
| 19 | But no-one knows they 've had a row , |
| 20 | The phone rang , but no-one picked it up . |
| 21 | Well , just , but no-one writes 'em like Sebadoh , unless you 're talking of the surfeit of spirit that infused Alex Chilton 's wildest torch-songs , the challenging of expectations Sonic Youth practise or the studied waywardness of The Fall . |
| 22 | But whom do they really work for ? |
| 23 | But everyone says he 's an absolute swine to nurses . ’ |
| 24 | But everyone says it would be a mistake to dismiss Mrs Shephard as ‘ a mumsy suburban type ’ , even though she shows some housewifey traits such as walking from Westminster to a West End restaurant in a pair of sensible shoes where she will then change into high heels carried in a plastic bag . |
| 25 | The last thing you 'd want to do would be enjoy yourself , but everyone says it was a happy release for Grandma . ’ |
| 26 | On holiday I teamed up with the nicest boy I 've ever met — but everyone says it 's just a holiday romance . |
| 27 | But everyone says I have a nice complexion . |
| 28 | Mills Roberts was a stickler for discipline but everyone recognised him as a good soldier and therefore , for all his shouting , he was a popular figure . |
| 29 | Should have been a goal , but everyone knew we had a game . |
| 30 | Manuel had not been able to improve on par the first day but everyone knew he was capable of making up a lot of leeway with one of his famous ‘ charges . ’ |