Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were all sorts of different views of the future , but everyone had the same ideas about what was worth preserving . |
| 2 | He worked in another part of the factory , but everyone used the same coffee bar . |
| 3 | But I had no such indication regarding the black population . |
| 4 | ’ I do n't nick stuff myself , but I know a few people who do . |
| 5 | But I spent a few bob buying drinks for a couple of old OSS types who 'd turned up in their London station and they took pity on me and let drop the codename : Winter Garden . |
| 6 | Not that she supported any other party , but I gather the former deb failed to register in Westminster , where she has a Notting Hill flat . |
| 7 | but I realize the same thing , I said erm , |
| 8 | But I have no such courage . |
| 9 | ‘ But I have a few things to do first . |
| 10 | Of course people need places to stay when on holiday and I 'm all for economical breaks such as caravanning , but I have a few suggestions which might help to improve the look of unsightly caravan parks . |
| 11 | I 'm not English , Irish nor French , but I have the same opinion as both Mr. Schwabb and Dr. O'Donohue . |
| 12 | ‘ But I think a few rats did survive . |
| 13 | A variation that we used to do , but which takes a little practice to get right , is to cut an elastic band , hold one end with your thumb or finger tip just below the implant , reach round the back with the other hand , stretch the elastic and , keeping it stretched , bring the end round and over the section under your thumb , grip it in the same way , pass round again and over the starting point . |
| 14 | Many speakers highlighted the apparent paradox of a party which gave its blessing to separate internal organisations for both women and young people , but which denied the same privilege to its black members . |
| 15 | This was achieved by examining brooches which are pairs , those not paired but which are very similar and those which are of a different design but which share the same characteristics . |
| 16 | How could a policy be devised that satisfied the aspirations of the local majority , but which provided the same rights for other nationalities ? |
| 17 | When challenged about this you replied , Yes , but you have the least experience in the golf industry . |
| 18 | Oh yeah , oh there 's hundred 's of jobs want doing round here again , but you do the same ones over and over again and I think to myself what a waste of a day . |
| 19 | Her stilted smile reappeared , placing a dent at one corner of her mouth , but she waited a few seconds longer , making sure that the ghost had retreated again . |
| 20 | She supposed that if she were normal , she would be hoping for what was known as a ‘ nice boy ’ to come along , but she had no such faith . |
| 21 | Ann thought it unseemly to kiss her husband in public , but she had no such reservations as far as her son was concerned , and hugged him tight , choking on her words as she whispered to him to take care of himself . |
| 22 | Again Jess tried to wrench her ankle out of his grasp , but she had no more chance of freeing herself than a snared rabbit . |
| 23 | But she had no more time for abstract thoughts . |
| 24 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
| 25 | And the supporters been treating me well , the promotion been treating me well , so obviously I never really wanted to move but we had a few problems with the negotiating with the contract and the financial terms was n't quite right so but I 'm glad to say we 've got it right now and you know we both sort of gave a bit and we came to a settlement er which I 'm very pleased about . |
| 26 | I was laughing about with er what 's , I 'm gon na write er a note to my chi er letter to my children for , you know , before very long no good thinking about it , well you would n't think about it after when it 's too late , but my kids have been a you know a great comfort the four from my first Joan , Joan has too , she 's been a dear but we had the same problems when she was getting older . |
| 27 | but we had the same thing with , course it 's going back Joan 's generation er see younger generation altogether than mine but our , our lives were well we 'll say well my father was in the Secret Service , in the government , Scotland Yard but erm |
| 28 | ‘ Ellis 's case is strengthened , obviously , but we 've no more evidence . |
| 29 | Those seven miles took a long time , but we worked a few things out . |
| 30 | Our review also attempted to discern any correlation between RP and individual histological features , primarily those considered to be indicators of classic Crohn 's disease , but we found no such associations . |