Example sentences of "but [pron] [adv] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I like Lovejoy , except I 've missed but they 're repeats , but I never saw it the first time . |
| 2 | But I still enjoyed it the second time . |
| 3 | But I still feel it the same , but not as much as this lot . |
| 4 | ‘ I liked your family very much , but you deliberately gave them the wrong impression about me , ’ she said angrily . |
| 5 | ‘ But you only saw me the other night ! |
| 6 | But we never knew who the other three were . ’ |
| 7 | Such programmes not only allow us to expand our market share in today 's tough world , but they also give us the opportunity of being involved in the very earliest stages of our customer 's product development process , offering us exciting scope for new business . |
| 8 | Such gentlemen freeholders could be manipulated , but they rarely considered themselves the hired retainers of a politician , whose support the latter could take for granted . |
| 9 | When it , and the Government can produce fifty pieces of legislation affecting local government since nineteen seventy nine , I have n't been here since nineteen seventy nine thankfully , so I have to analyze everything , but they always landed our the ma the major ones and , so for example erm , it was the Local government Unit that produced the initial response of the Poll Tax , what strategy the Council should adopt er , the Council wo n't distance approach , we wanted to make it clear that the Poll Tax was a Government erm , it was a Government initiative and it was being forcedly on us and that was the way , did that effect it , that was a guided and then there was the nineteen eight nine local Government Housing Act , which I 'm sure many of you . |
| 10 | But they always gave me the choice first and put me in a dilemma , though I did n't know the meaning of the word then . |
| 11 | I could make no further headway with the landlord so I made enquiries amongst the other customers : a beggar who whined for alms inside the doorway and a greasy-haired knave , but they only repeated what the landlord had said . |
| 12 | But they never reserved anybody the . |
| 13 | But he certainly gave me the impression the boat belonged to him . ’ |
| 14 | I was dead against it , but he always did what the family wanted . |
| 15 | ‘ I believe someone invested in the business , ’ replied Sarah vaguely , ‘ but he never told me the details , and I did n't like to pry . ’ |
| 16 | Clearly that 's crucial — but it only gives us the opportunity to make profit . |