Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to one observer , there were over 200 mourners ; Gubyenko made a touching speech , but no-one shed any obvious tears . |
| 2 | But everyone knows real old people who do not fit the stereotypes : so discarding follows . |
| 3 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
| 4 | I would just like to I know we need to the television programmes on about the Gulf and so on , but I 've two young children at home , and I find that yesterday was a very long day because there was just nothing on for them at all B B C two at four o'clock . |
| 5 | I 'm sorry , but I get this horrible feeling in my stomach , as though there 's a great big knot in it . |
| 6 | But I had many other interests which kept me fully occupied at the time . |
| 7 | Most people think that pigs are dirty and ignorant , but I had many happy times with them . |
| 8 | Most people think that pigs are dirty and ignorant , but I had many happy times with them . |
| 9 | And er I I do n't know where they 've gone now but I had some lovely photographs of these flats . |
| 10 | But I had this lifelong problem , you see . ’ |
| 11 | No I was bloody fright but I know that other night I shut that door . |
| 12 | ‘ But I like this classic look . |
| 13 | Bellamy was aw-gosh polite to Susan , but I got some unnecessary shoving . |
| 14 | It obviously showed , but I wore big baggy clothes . |
| 15 | I was not aware of that incident , but I deplore such racist attacks without any reservation whatsoever . |
| 16 | In literature I was going to offer both British and American authors , both prose and poetry , so that was no problem , though it did mean that I should have to read authors I disliked — Conrad , Hemingway , Woolf , Graham Greene , C.P. Snow — but I leavened this stodgy bunch with those I felt more in sympathy with , though they were not officially on the syllabus — Waugh , Firbank and Forster at their head . |
| 17 | ‘ Use whatever method you can , but I want this little vixen barking in four hours ’ time at the latest ! ’ |
| 18 | If you persist in this activity , the client will soon cry : " But I want some national coverage " . |
| 19 | But I have one major reservation , which is the total absence of ‘ B ’ and Under-23 games . |
| 20 | Faith is single , but I have two young children . |
| 21 | But I have two lovely daughters and two sons , and they 've always looked after me and loved me . |
| 22 | Of course , I do have a few problems , but I have good caring doctors who have prescribed medication . |
| 23 | But I have this nagging suspicion that my luck as a first-timer tour group leader can not hold . |
| 24 | But I have some secret bubble of amusement in me and it 's lighter than air . |
| 25 | But I think another important thing is to weigh up yourself , it stems from you , what are you like ? |
| 26 | I believe I 've got to be very careful what I say because I could be subject to legal action , but I think this whole case is appalling . |
| 27 | But I bought some beautiful crimson bias binding from Laura Ashley do n't laugh but I 'm taking the valance of Paul 's bed |
| 28 | ‘ It sounds pretty cold-hearted when you put it like that , but I love that little girl . |
| 29 | But I love those little box things with the lacy paper that they pack it in . |
| 30 | But nobody had any other place to live . ’ |