Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [det] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 6ft 4in hitman said : ‘ I do n't think my season has really started yet but I hope to rectify that now . |
| 2 | But I hope to learn these soon if anybody will have the goodness to bear with me . |
| 3 | But I 've said this before , and I 'll say it again . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's so difficult to remember , but I 've said this before , so I 'll probably have to stick to it . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd been working in a factory , but I had to give that up because I could n't afford a nursery . |
| 6 | He says : ‘ I did n't miss years , but I did miss some very important times in their lives . |
| 7 | He says : ‘ I did n't miss years , but I did miss some very important times in their lives . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , ’ Nora replied angrily , ‘ I was trying to give you a little surprise but you 've spoiled that now . ’ |
| 9 | but you 've worked that out yourself I like that because you you went for the salt see you knew you were doing exactly what I was saying sort of forming the pattern |
| 10 | But you 've got that over th on the bottom have n't you ? |
| 11 | You 're not a Councillor , you 're just an ordinary man in the street , but you 've had some well some run-ins , as it were , with some problems up there in Chipping Norton . |
| 12 | That 's okay , she 's also given me the right words to use to put it through urgently , okay , cos I mean you , I know you have n't exchanged yet , but you want to do that fairly quickly . |
| 13 | We need a signature one signature on unless of course the company says that two people have got to sign it but you have to find that out . |
| 14 | that 's no big deal , but she 'd found that out in about five minutes ! |
| 15 | But she has tried this once before , after nineteen helpful interventions ( eight from Becky , the rest from Minna ) on her speed , her gear changes , her posture , clothes and haircut , and — most often — on the roads she has taken to get out of London . |
| 16 | Peter immediately explained Carol 's codeine allergy but the doctor replied : ‘ But she 's had some already . ’ |
| 17 | but she 's got some really smart erm navy shorts |
| 18 | but we need to get that out probably during April . |
| 19 | We go in mainly for first editions of the classics but we do have some rather nice botanical books , floras mostly , sought after for their plates … |
| 20 | Or members who were n't here or but we did talk this through in some detail . |
| 21 | But they 've changed that over , but they wo n't |
| 22 | Not that I would have attempted to scale the academic heights of an Oxford or a Cambridge , of course , but they do do some very stimulating courses at the Birmingham Polytechnic . |
| 23 | Like rabbits , they are born blind but they do have some very fine body hair . |
| 24 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |
| 25 | The original idea was that Hubert would join after university , but he had to give that up . |
| 26 | But he 'd done this before and then suddenly , by a single comment , Willi would reveal that he had been playing a game all along . |
| 27 | But he 'd had more lately . |
| 28 | He was very normal , you could see him walking down to the bank Monday to Friday , but he 's got this completely eccentric side to him . ’ |
| 29 | But he remembers to throw some directly at the little black ones that are not really ducks , he ca n't remember what they 're called . |
| 30 | But it had done that before . |