Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I have some sympathy for the institutions ' view that their duty is to their policyholders and they can not be expected to double up as company regulators . |
| 2 | I support the Bill , but I have some criticisms of past Government policy . |
| 3 | You can not count the features of loveliness here , but I attach some pages from my notebook to discover to you the ingenious flora of this fair isle and their many productive and rich uses . |
| 4 | I said well now can I see his room , she said well really I 've cleared the room since he 's gone , but I found some papers in the room , which indicated that he was a convict on licence . |
| 5 | In the September parliament of 1328 he received the title Earl of March , an honour which was amply justified in terms of his wealth and territorial power but which aroused some hostility amongst the other earls . |
| 6 | mhm Well , David Brian , now you 're a doctor and a reverend and your the curate at Christ Church in Abingdon , but you spent some time over there in Saints Mary and John Church . |
| 7 | Midori Suzuki , spokesperson for FCT , reported that the Japanese public has so far been denied access to cable TV ( CATV ) , but she outlined some possibilities for access in the future . |
| 8 | The house , Wychwood , from which I like to think that Eliot derived the name in The Family Reunion , was easily within walking distance ; but we felt some responsibility for getting the great man from London without subjecting him to too much fatigue ; and if my brother reached home by a circuitous route , it was partly in order to show off the beauty of the place . |
| 9 | He agreed , but we had some difficulty in deciding what . |
| 10 | I knew almost nothing about physics but we shared some jokes about the Rome telephone system . |
| 11 | But we shoved some veg in it . |
| 12 | United 's record is n't a lot to sing about , but they deserve some cheers for the way they keep plugging away and its not always they 're fault . |
| 13 | ‘ Other financial reporting work ’ is not defined by the ICAEW but they give some guidance by stating that other financial reporting assignments include assignments requiring a professional opinion or a reporting assignment where a document has been prepared in contemplation that a third party may rely on it . |
| 14 | The man below could not have seen the movement , but he felt some shifting of the air above him , or heard , perhaps , if he had a wild beast 's hearing as he had its gait , the mere rustle of a sleeve against the stone . |
| 15 | Almost certainly , he has a weak visual memory , and so any teaching should aim to help him to strengthen that ; but he has some difficulty with the auditory side , too . |
| 16 | But he has some news of where she might be , and he continues north in his motor car , still looking for her . |
| 17 | He bought a new radio for her though she said she did n't need it , but he wanted some evidence of what he was achieving , something in the flat that proved he was doing all right . |
| 18 | Granted , Vitor continued to blame her , but it represented some kind of progress . |
| 19 | The famous Marx Brothers ' contract scene in A Night at the Opera ( " The party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part " ) exaggerated the worst excesses of legal drafting , but it had some basis in fact . |
| 20 | It probably means that the average family is a much more relaxed affair than the traditional Scottish household used to be , but it goes some way towards explaining the numbers of children at risk in our society from adults outside the home , as well as from their own undisciplined emotions . |
| 21 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 22 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 23 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 24 | The hill fort at Dun Bhorairaig at Dunlossit would seem to have been a broch from the description of it by Thomas Pennant in 1772 , but it suffered some reconstruction in Medieval times , it has been suggested to turn it into a lookout. which the magnificent view of the whole of the Sound of Islay would support . |
| 25 | The hill fort at Dun Bhorairaig at Dunlossit would seem to have been a broch from the description of it by Thomas Pennant in 1772 , but it suffered some reconstruction in Medieval times , it has been suggested to turn it into a lookout. which the magnificent view of the whole of the Sound of Islay would support . |
| 26 | It is not a heartening picture , but it has some validity as a profile of our times . |
| 27 | But it fastens some sort of cohabitation rule upon them . |
| 28 | But it needs some kind of explanation . |
| 29 | But it needs some encouragement to port to Unix and substitute it for the server , rather than OS/2 . |