Example sentences of "[adj] but [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | large , not generous but I think good grief poor Christopher 's sitting there . |
| 2 | One of my favourite presidents , Theodore Roosevelt , president from the early part of the twentieth century and known as the damned cowboy erm you might be interested to know how people become president erm Theodore Roosevelt was an arch imperialist and got very excited about the er war with Spain er America had a s little brief war with Spain at the end of the nineteenth century erm over the possession of Cuba , and erm in eighteen ninety eight , and this aroused great patriotic feelings in all red blooded Americans and especially in Theodore Roosevelt and er er Roosevelt formed his own company of cavalry called the Rough Riders and erm Roosevelt wore glasses and was asthmatic but he had this group called the Rough Riders , sort of early kind of Clint Eastwood stuff , and erm anyway he g he was engaged in the war with Spain er and there was one wonderful moment in the war Spain in which the Spaniards were at the top of a hill called the San Juan hill er and er Teddy , as he was known , of course he gave his name to the teddy bear , did you know that did you ? |
| 3 | These two cases look very different but they have many aspects in common . |
| 4 | The depiction of the Legion itself might not have been truly authentic but what gave Black Legion much of its initial impact was that the story with all its political message and melodrama was very firmly set in a very real community of American working men . |
| 5 | I always remember like I were only little but I remember these things you know . |
| 6 | What do I 'm sorry but what does chief man ? |
| 7 | The hypothesis about the importance of making connections between different strategies will be extended to the learning of mathematics , and also to the teaching of children whose intelligence is normal but who have specific difficulties with reading and with mathematics , the hypothesis being that these children fail because they do not make a strong enough connection between different strategies . |
| 8 | In future the processes may be ozone friendly but they involve higher temperatures which could damage fabrics containing PVC . |
| 9 | I take the squad to Holland every year and that is something I would like to see continued but I have other ideas which it may not be possible to put into practice . |
| 10 | The Wanderers ' manager , Phil Neal , has some way to go before he can expect to be so honoured but he collected several brownie points after his side 's spirited performance . |
| 11 | I mean not just filthy i er bodily but they had filthy habits . |
| 12 | Rory Scott says roguishly : ‘ She was very sexually attractive and the relationship was not a platonic one as far as I was concerned but it remained that way . |
| 13 | This might seem onerous but it guarantees that configuration control is maintained and , with some care , should be a very unusual occurrence . |
| 14 | The number of personnel is small but they work full time in the unit and are not concerned with the rest of the corporate planning department 's roles in the planning process . |
| 15 | His poems can be awkward and blunt but you feel any revision has been towards truth rather than beauty . |
| 16 | Sport has resorted to gimmickry but I suppose some sport is better than none . |
| 17 | Let me give a trivial but I hope interesting example from my own experience . |
| 18 | Maggie felt annoyed but she had more sense than to argue . |
| 19 | They 're expensive but they collect pure rainfall , because coral never gets dirty . ’ |