Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US Seniors ' Tour may outstrip the USPGA Tour in terms of waistlines and average age , but no-one expected its leading money winner to also claim higher earnings . |
| 2 | Instructions are given for several neckbands , but everyone has their own pet neckband . |
| 3 | I tried to shake it from my mind as I shook the water from my hair , but I knew what that face felt like from the inside . |
| 4 | I was laughing , but I sensed his sudden excitement . |
| 5 | But I tell you one person who 's getting on my nerves is that good looking son at McDonalds . |
| 6 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
| 7 | ‘ But I took my English books with me . ’ |
| 8 | I was tipsy But I heard my twotiming lips say You 're my true |
| 9 | But I ask myself one question : what should be the reparation for having been removed from life for 18 years , with my brothers ? |
| 10 | NO BUT I REMEMBER MY FIRST FLIGHT WITH YOU , CAPTAIN . |
| 11 | But I take my immediate clue from the American critic , Norman Holland : ‘ unity is to the text as identity is to a person ; or you could say , identity is the unity I find in a person when I look at him as if he were a text . ’ |
| 12 | We are doing what we can , but I take my hon. Friend 's point that it has been an ongoing saga for some time now . |
| 13 | Yes , I have the slip somewhere , and my father I did n't keep it but my father must have kept it , but I discovered it one day and it was seven and thruppence I think for the first week 's pay . |
| 14 | But I ruined my own life — and more importantly I ruined Ashi 's too — because I refused to admit that I was what I was . ’ |
| 15 | He could be quite maddening at times , but I had my own concerns and had to leave it at that . |
| 16 | That was all very well , but I had my own position to consider . |
| 17 | ‘ But I bet my bottom dollar she is n't . ’ |
| 18 | But I kept my big mouth shut . |
| 19 | But I know me own daughter well enough to know that she does n't want to lock herself inside a convent for the rest of her life . |
| 20 | I may be a layman in terms of aero-space , but I know my own country and I know military thinking . |
| 21 | I am young , naïve perhaps , all the things you said , but I know my own mind , I know what you did to him , what you 're doing to me . |
| 22 | But I er it was about two f yeah , I put a fiver , but I put it each way , so |
| 23 | I did not take it personally , but I thank my hon. Friend none the less . |
| 24 | I may not wear a mob cap , but I rake our coal-fired Rayburn daily and ‘ clouds of ash ’ is an understatement of the result . |
| 25 | ‘ She did n't want it coloured or layered , but I felt her original style was too long and dragged her down . ’ |
| 26 | You can rook your employers for as much as you want if you must , but I pay my own way , ’ she said firmly . |
| 27 | She 's all of five feet five but I suppose her slim build gives the impression of being petite … |
| 28 | ‘ But I promised you that painting on your wedding day , and I had to send it . ’ |
| 29 | The girls I knew at COHQ thought he was particularly unattractive , but I expect his own girls applied different criteria . |
| 30 | The European Commission is in dispute with the German Government over the level of their production subsidies , but I assure my hon. Friend that imports from Germany are minimal and that the real competition for the British coal mining industry comes from other fuels . |