Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I did n't know Tonya very well , but I wish her the best . ’ |
| 3 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But nobody knows what the long term risks of eating irradiated food will be . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Good try — but you got it the wrong way round ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 11 | But they do it the other way as well . |
| 12 | In 1686 he became a London alderman , sitting for Broad Street ; but he discharged himself the following year , probably in anticipation of the purging of Anglicans from the bench . |
| 13 | ‘ But he sees me the other way — he spoke of another photograph — he was telling me that … ’ |
| 14 | Quite unwittingly you played right into my hands that night , Aurora — I knew you had n't been taking drugs , but it gave me the perfect excuse for sticking around . |