Example sentences of "[pron] but [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I but colleges . |
| 2 | Nobody but cops and ops and soce workers . |
| 3 | It is not right he should live as he does in this house , with nobody but strangers to talk to . |
| 4 | Not you but others and you put some icing . |
| 5 | Sticks can be stabbed at you but chains can not ; they must be swung , and the heavier they are , the slower the swing — giving you more time to get out of the way . |
| 6 | ‘ I was coming over to see you but things have happened . |
| 7 | It is not sleep itself but dreams we miss , |
| 8 | It is not sleep itself but dreams we miss . |
| 9 | It is not sleep itself but dreams we miss . |
| 10 | It is not sleep itself but dreams we miss . |
| 11 | I see none but tenants excepting three or four . |
| 12 | At Exeter in 1726 the serge weavers were said to have " Clubs , where none but weavers are admitted ; and that they have their ensigns and flags hung out at the door of their meetings " . |
| 13 | Some first impressions and , early experiences of college life remain clearly in my mind — what was this new world where the academic staff all taught , but many of them were not ‘ teachers ’ like me but engineers or nurses or painters and decorators ? |
| 14 | Whereas hypocrisy in the tragic mode is usually revealed to the audience directly , in advance of the action , here Shakespeare makes Angelo declare himself to a second person , Isabella , confident that — as Falstaff says when he is planning his pretence of having killed Hotspur in battle — ‘ Nothing confutes me but e-yes , and nobody sees me ’ ( 1 Henry IV V.iv.125f ) : And indeed , Angelo 's position is impregnable , unless some force from outside , with superior knowledge , can expose him . |
| 15 | How I would love to be proved wrong by any one of them but parents and boys deserve my honest opinion , however much they may hate me for it . |
| 16 | Gary started to walk with them but Nails told him to clear off home . |
| 17 | Because on the joist up right at the top near the side of the house , the brickwork , there 's erm I do n't well I ca n't describe them but cocoons or something like that . |
| 18 | ‘ We are three-quarters of a mile in the depths of the earth , and the great river shrinks into insignificance as it dashes its angry waves against the walls and cliffs that rise to the world above ; the waves are but puny ripples , and we but pygmies , running up and down the sands or lost among the boulders . |
| 19 | The teenager who can not find a job , the young mother with no one but toddlers to talk to , the active man forced to retire because of age regulations , the person who spends day after day doing the same repetitive work — all these people , and many others , may suffer from extreme boredom . |
| 20 | ‘ Darlington police even wanted us to talk to him but negotiators did n't think that would help . |
| 21 | Because of the success of The Making of the English Landscape people who had no interest in the countryside have read the book and been inspired by it But others have used the book and particularly this chapter as an authoritative statement that most hedges are modern and thus do not constitute a serious loss if they are removed to accommodate modern agricultural techniques . |
| 22 | Children may learn to pass urine and faeces in it but accidents will still happen when they are preoccupied in play or are in a place where they do not know where the lavatory is . |
| 23 | I do n't particularly enjoy it but men should n't be ostracised for it . ’ |
| 24 | Unions do n't like it but consumers are n't concerned . |
| 25 | How I led him out of the garden and into a rough and stony place where naught but thistles and brambles grow ! |
| 26 | well , if they were interested in speaking to me I could probably put them on to not just myself but members of my flight , it is n't my flight it 's flight erm and there are several of us in Scotland who could come in and do things like that for a modest remuneration erm |
| 27 | They seem to be harmless in themselves but conditions under which copepods flourish , are also conditions under which various fish parasites , notably gill flukes , thrive . |
| 28 | These tourists ordered not only busts of themselves but replicas and versions of the artist 's fourteen or so separate ideal works including : ‘ Eve Tempted ’ ( 1839–42 ) ; the ‘ Greek Slave ’ ( 1841–1843 ) ; ‘ Proserpine ’ ( 1843 ; 1844–49 ) ; ‘ America ’ ( 1848–9 ) and ‘ California ’ ( 1850 ) . |
| 29 | I remember when all this were nowt but fields , and people released simple horizontally scrolling blasters for the C64 . |
| 30 | The wide-angled wing mirrors , also electrically operated , let you see lots but cars look so small , it is hard to tell how close behind you they really are . |