Example sentences of "but [pron] [adv] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm called Breeze , but I never told you that . |
| 2 | But I never knew what all the other stars meant , just that one constellation . |
| 3 | I 'm allergic to everything but I still eat it all . |
| 4 | R.B. But I certainly noticed it that day . |
| 5 | It probably was n't bubbling and smoking away like a witch 's cauldron but I certainly remember it that way What was it ? |
| 6 | To economize on cash holdings ( which earn no interest ) , financial institutions hold other highly liquid assets which act as reserves , but which nevertheless earn them some interest ( see pages 658–60 ) . |
| 7 | Yeah but you still ate it all . |
| 8 | But she only loved him more . |
| 9 | but she never give us another one |
| 10 | Irene still comes to the apartment but we never see her any more except by accident . |
| 11 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 12 | They were great friends — there were three of them : Uncle , Gifford Tate , and Papa Burger-I do n't know why ‘ papa ’ but they always called him that . |
| 13 | School teachers suffer a good deal from having to listen to this sort of twaddle from proud parents , but they usually get their own back when the time comes to write the end-of-term reports . |
| 14 | It was n't a very dangerous operation , but they never told me that . |
| 15 | I saw my mother once a day at dinner time and I saw my father three or four times a week , but they never gave me any love . |
| 16 | From this episode Hopkins evoked a magnificent description of that wild night ; but he also provided his own elucidation of God 's dealing with His creatures : God had shown forth both His majesty and His compassion . |
| 17 | But he also gave me enough to cover all my fees , legal fees . |
| 18 | He 's unpatronising towards the individuals whose lives and circumstances illustrate his subject , but he continually questions his own attitudes and motivation . |
| 19 | He said tie this and I 'll give you a penny , but he never gavr me any money . |
| 20 | ‘ I met a parson once that was good to me , but he never gave me any treacle tart , just a kind message of 'ope . |
| 21 | Minton 's zestful response not only captures in vivid terms the quality of these artists ' work , but it also reveals his own anxiety about what contemporary art should do and be . |
| 22 | The scene is observed but it also has its own life and its own place in the narrative . |
| 23 | The growing plant partly relies on the host tree for nutrients but it also makes its own by the usual photosynthesis . |
| 24 | But it only took me half an hour to get to Blefuscu . |
| 25 | But it now has its own research and development facility in the US , and has recently opened its own automated assembly line in London . |
| 26 | But it never did it any good they never got to run their own economy . |
| 27 | Many a time I had the hand-brush and so did my brothers and sisters but it never did us any harm . |
| 28 | But it really hit her this year , we felt quite disgruntled |