Example sentences of "but [det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Not as we seen him a lot but least he could come and say alright . |
| 2 | ‘ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears ; not that ye should be grieved , but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you ’ ( 2 Corinthians , 2:4 ) . |
| 3 | Perhaps they really prefer more natural food and this has been plentiful , but that it not obviously so . |
| 4 | But that It takes something like the flu and that brings it out . |
| 5 | He was not saying merely that you believed it , but that you could know it as certainty ! |
| 6 | When Sly Stallone ( wearing , these days , more eye-liner than Sophia Loren ) is up there , playing it for laughs on the set , the worst thing is not that you do n't laugh , but that you feel anxious for him . |
| 7 | Then last night the police called to tell me that Mum , Dad , Pet and Wee Charlie were missing , but that you were safe . |
| 8 | If you are told that your employment is to end immediately , but that you will be paid salary for your notice period , that will fall within the former category . |
| 9 | Is there something that you really enjoy , that you can afford , but that you feel guilty doing ? |
| 10 | Blushing suggested you were n't just lying , but that you had something to hide . |
| 11 | One is to telephone , or write to her beforehand , saying that things have been so hectic at your end recently that it seemed at one point that you might have to postpone your visit for a week or two , but that you are so keen to see her that you are absolutely determined to ‘ make it ’ somehow , even if it has to be just a ‘ flying visit ’ . |
| 12 | This can be comforting to them to some extent , but what they really want to hear is that you will not only see that they are cared for properly for the rest of their days , but that you will help them to remain in control of their own finances and to be as independent as possible . |
| 13 | If there is a possibility that he may have died but that you have not been informed , you can check by writing to or visiting St. Catherine 's House , where the indexes of registered deaths are filed . |
| 14 | ‘ I realised that you can sell your science by being a good scientist , but that you can also sell your science by having a correct image and by pure professionalism , ’ she says , elegant in a black and cream two piece . |
| 15 | Agree that she can go with them but that you will bring her back . ’ |
| 16 | Telling them that yes , you were cross , but that you remain friends , will reassure them . |
| 17 | The advantage of budgeting is that not only do you know exactly where you stand — or perhaps stagger ? — today , but that you can make sensible judgements about , for , how much more saving you can undertake , or whether you can afford to increase your borrowing still further . |
| 18 | How do you know but that you may be the next child that may die ? … |
| 19 | In other words , they demonstrate not only that you know , but that you know how you know ! |
| 20 | It is important that they should understand that they are not being examined to see how ignorant they are but that you are trying , with their help , to help them to become good spellers . |
| 21 | The sceptic says that there is a difference between the two hypotheses but that you can not tell it since it is evidence-transcendent . |
| 22 | When you have finished the novel it is not that you have really finished it , but that you have decided to do no more work on it . |
| 23 | You must show not only that you have seen the chapel , but that you can identify it . |
| 24 | Erm but that you know that that did n't carry on much more than a few days after the the initial disturbances . |
| 25 | Tell him that I 'm with you , but that you 're not quite sure how much you ought to tell me . |
| 26 | ‘ The truth is that I fought what I felt for you for as long as I could , and even after we made love I told myself that I wanted you , desperately , but that you meant nothing more to me than an object of desire . ’ |
| 27 | I can not believe my luck that nobody else had the sense to carry you off but that you should still be there for me and that — ’ Well , that could be taken two ways , on second thoughts that might not be the thing to say , no ; ‘ my luck that you should want me in the same way that I want you . |
| 28 | Or it may be that the question you are interested in has been discussed before , but that you want to develop it in a particular way , or to extend it , or to disagree with one of its premises . |
| 29 | We tend to assume , I think , in normal usage , that I have to suspect what you are thinking , and to imagine or conjecture what you mean by an expression , but that you have some direct and privileged access to your intentions which enables you to know what you mean . |
| 30 | The idea is not that you 're actors on this course , but that you 're learning how to film |