Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have tried the Cotherstone cheese made today but I prefer something a little drier . |
| 2 | Some people do n't do anything — some people 's places really are n't clean … well , this one is n't very , but I keep it the best I can . |
| 3 | I did n't know Tonya very well , but I wish her the best . ’ |
| 4 | He said : ‘ The van was not there at 6pm but I noticed it a little bit later . |
| 5 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 6 | ‘ Wild geese , mon vieux , is what you presume me to chase , ’ said the gentleman to Bramble , ‘ but I assure you the stable door is bolted . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't , cos it ai n't polite with strangers , but I give her a real nice smile instead . |
| 8 | It is neither the ninety seven thousand , nine hundred and fifty seven pounds claim by Mr nor the forty seven thousand one hundred and eighty five pound figure contended for by Mr but I find it a fair figure for the cost of the plaintiff 's transport in the years ahead . |
| 9 | But I gave her a cold stare and fluffed my fur out ; I could n't have her thinking I was a pushover . |
| 10 | I got out of the car and ran to my front door , my mum answered the door , she looked quite different but I gave her a massive cuddle and went indoors . |
| 11 | ‘ But nobody knows what the long term risks of eating irradiated food will be . |
| 12 | One of the tragedies to that it has now become so expensive but is very difficult but not because it was sponsored but somebody told me the other night that the Billy Connolly programme excuse me Billy Connolly programme about art and culture was |
| 13 | Good try — but you got it the wrong way round ! |
| 14 | She passed several men , but none gave her a second glance . |
| 15 | But she offered me a nice sunny room under the eaves at the back . |
| 16 | She went very rapidly indeed but she knew what a long morning it would seem to her mother lying there alone unable to move . |
| 17 | But she knew what a constant and life-deforming worry the money had been . |
| 18 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 19 | Er so I 'm gon na have them but she showed me the small room , what they call the small room , well that was huge well it will be perfect for what we want . |
| 20 | He waved to me , but she gave me a menacing glare . |
| 21 | I intended to ask the Baronessa Dulcibene why she had come to pay her last respects to this mysterious Englishman but she gave me a glassy look of non-recognition and moved rapidly away with her companion . |
| 22 | She had been disappointed in her first sight of him , but she gave him an amused little smile , hoping that he was not one who doted on cats . |
| 23 | And the other thing about visual things , let's , let's say there is a reference to somebody having piles , but they make it a visual gag |
| 24 | This Meeting know they have no title to impose a Tax upon the Community at large towards this purpose , but they feel it an indispensible duty to express how desirable it would be for the use and service of the inhabitabts of Islay . |
| 25 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 26 | But they do it the other way as well . |
| 27 | The arguments were upsetting , but they gave them a burning desire to win — to prove officialdom wrong . |
| 28 | ‘ I do , ’ she answered , ‘ but everybody gives it a different name . |
| 29 | I was certain he did n't know I was following him , but he led me a pretty dance almost as if he was trying to lose me . |
| 30 | One eveing I dared to stretch out my hand to his plate , but he struck me a sharp blow over the back of my fingers . |