Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could do good but it does more bad |
| 2 | I do not remember whether we enlivened the day with a penny ride on a donkey round the White Stone pond but I regarded these donkeys with the respect and admiration rarely afforded by the keenest jockey for his mount and one of my day-dreams ( only once realised and then somehow a little disappointing ) was to save up three weeks ' pocket money and have a 3d ride in place of a Id one , which took you for at least a hundred yards along the Spaniards Road . |
| 3 | As you know erm we , we take the money here we do n't charge you for the talk but we give ten percent back to your W I so it 's a self funding situation . |
| 4 | fighting but you know last week , no it was n't , who was it ? |
| 5 | Mr Wright said there were three positive callers , praising Sure Style 's work but one admitted Sure Style had asked him to call the phone-in . |
| 6 | Charles says , with relish : ‘ I do n't know whether a psychologist would say it was the trauma of the divorce but she had real difficulty telling the truth purely because she liked to embellish things . |
| 7 | ‘ I still enjoy going to racing at Croft circuit but I think this year 's trip to the Isle of Man will be my swan song , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ People are often complaining about the council but I think this time they deserve some praise . ’ |
| 9 | She looked like a child but she had exceptional bone structure . |
| 10 | No , it was n't a conventional marriage but we gave each other what a lot of married people do n't : freedom . |
| 11 | Suppose a particular nationalized firm wants to institute a project that has a very favourable rate of return but which involves heavy capital outlays prior to any revenues being generated . |
| 12 | This is essentially a digging tool but it has another function I have always found particularly useful . |
| 13 | Community is part of the job but it needs good management ( paying teachers , costing the use of premises , the division of time other than that which is needed to provide the national curriculum ) as well as a personally felt sense of value . |
| 14 | Which is a fairly important job but I get paid shit . |
| 15 | The win took the Republic back up to second place in the Group behind Spain on goal difference but they had enough chances to close the six-goal gap on the pace-setters . |
| 16 | The domestic events of the spring of 1937 were not without importance but he took small part in them , and a cursory reading of the Cabinet minutes might suggest that he had already retired in mind . |
| 17 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 18 | Kitson 's views were derided by the establishment but he had important influence in both radical and lunatic fringe circles . |
| 19 | They quashed the murder charge but he got ten years for intent to wound resulting in death , plus , of course , half as much again because there was a firearm involved . ‘ |
| 20 | In actual fact it was mentioned earlier that V A T er could be imposed on fossil fuel but I think any administration . |
| 21 | The church was not in permanent use and had no resident vicar but it held occasional services and now at Christmas an elderly cleric in retirement had volunteered to conduct a sung Eucharist at nine-thirty with the help of a volunteer choir assembled from the Women 's Institute . |
| 22 | ‘ Anders is not in that category but he has other things to offer . |
| 23 | I mean I I had the guitar stuff done within an hour but it getting all vocals over-dubbed and doubling everything up and then , it took forever to mix it together . |
| 24 | In fact there were very few guide dogs at that time and erm I 've never felt that erm it 's , I mean maybe just my erm silliness really but I , I never wanted a dog lying about all day because once at the office I stayed put as it were until it was time to go home and I could have taken the dog I suppose during the lunch hour but I preferred that time to erm to reading |
| 25 | angina but she takes this spray |
| 26 | I knew almost nothing about physics but we shared some jokes about the Rome telephone system . |
| 27 | ‘ The pet shop refused a refund but I got one thanks to DAS , ’ he says . |
| 28 | In the final Cadwallader struggled to stay in touch with the top class domestic field but he exceeded all expectations by taking more than four seconds off his best time when he ran 3m 44.04s in Saturday 's heats . |
| 29 | I 'd have hoped the England team would have been selected on quality and experience but it seems those qualities are not important any more |
| 30 | ‘ I would have hoped teams were selected on quality and experience but it seems those qualities are not important any more . |