Example sentences of "but [pers pn] soon [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I soon felt calmer when he came to meet me and kissed me . |
| 2 | But I soon grew bored . |
| 3 | I was very nervous when I first went ; but I soon got used to it . |
| 4 | I absolutely hated having to wear a skirt but I soon got used to it . |
| 5 | When I was in prison I was n't hard to start with , but I soon got that way . |
| 6 | But we soon got used to the place . |
| 7 | Its first workers in Greece probably came in with the material , but they soon found native pupils . |
| 8 | But they soon found galloping impossible . |
| 9 | But he soon became convinced that the herpes virus , which was thought for a while to be associated with cancer , had in reality nothing to do with the disease . |
| 10 | Millar came to the NCLC in 1923 , first as press officer , but he soon became general secretary . |
| 11 | Millar came to the NCLC in 1923 , first as press officer , but he soon became general secretary . |
| 12 | He suggested to the Leeds and District Football Association that they should field a representative side against Leeds City reserves , a game duly held at Elland Road , but he soon became disillusioned . |
| 13 | But he soon had second thoughts . |
| 14 | He also had a stab at writing for a living , becoming a reporter on the Bury Times , but he soon lost that job after trying to inject some of his flowery prose into a report on the funeral of a civic dignitary . |
| 15 | No one knows who first made the quip but it soon had universal currency . |
| 16 | But it soon seemed natural for one man to be held first among equals ; or the first prominent convert in a city , like Stephanas at Corinth ( 1 Cor. 16 : 15–16 ) , might form a community round his household . |
| 17 | The campanile was saved but it soon became ruinous . |
| 18 | A mechanical bush-clearing company was called in , but it soon became apparent that machines could not accomplish all that was required , and labourers from other tribes were set to work . |
| 19 | But it soon became apparent in Zambia and other new countries that inexperienced and possibly unstable governments feared the ability of the press to provide conflicting or alternative ‘ truths ’ , for this put enormous power into the hands of the press proprietors . |
| 20 | But it soon became apparent that other people were also affected including injecting drug users , people with haemophilia , people who had received blood transfusions as well as heterosexuals who came into none of these categories . |
| 21 | But it soon became apparent that Britain still preferred little more than an effective interlocking system of treaties along the lines of the Treaty of Dunkirk : increasingly , if these were initiated , they would be little more than holding operations until the United States shared in the defence of Western Europe . |
| 22 | But it soon became apparent that the divisions between the French and English ran very deep . |
| 23 | The full extent of the tragedy was impossible to asses at first , but it soon became apparent that the number who were killed instantly was in excess of 70 . |
| 24 | But it soon became apparent to the pioneering voluntary organizations that established them , such as the Richmond Fellowship , that patients who had been mentally unwell for years did not miraculously become capable of independent living in a short space of time ; they often needed permanent help and support and coped particularly poorly with changes in their environment and lifestyle . |
| 25 | This may have held great promise in its early years but it soon became divided and then fragmented , due largely , if not wholly to the same age-old misconception whereby the basis of the religion is the assumption of the existence of a completely undefined ‘ god ’ , in this case the ancient ‘ god ’ of the Jews . |
| 26 | But it soon became obvious that the proteins of the nutrient contained the correct chemical groups , and that the food molecules themselves were polymerizing and creating the capsule membrane . |
| 27 | Allan Lamb took over the captaincy and did his best , but it soon became clear that without Gooch they were nothing like the same team . |
| 28 | The main item on the agenda was future policy in Ulster but it soon became clear that another issue had become dominant . |
| 29 | In one demonstration my car was stopped at a hospital entrance but it soon became clear that much of the resentment was directed at what were seen as remote hospital authorities ‘ up there , . |
| 30 | Gradually she got used to thinking of Angel as Corrie , but it soon became clear that she would never be able to claim her as her own . |