Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have tried the Cotherstone cheese made today but I prefer something a little drier . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I did n't know Tonya very well , but I wish her the best . ’ |
| 4 | He said : ‘ The van was not there at 6pm but I noticed it a little bit later . |
| 5 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't , cos it ai n't polite with strangers , but I give her a real nice smile instead . |
| 8 | It is neither the ninety seven thousand , nine hundred and fifty seven pounds claim by Mr nor the forty seven thousand one hundred and eighty five pound figure contended for by Mr but I find it a fair figure for the cost of the plaintiff 's transport in the years ahead . |
| 9 | But I gave her a cold stare and fluffed my fur out ; I could n't have her thinking I was a pushover . |
| 10 | I got out of the car and ran to my front door , my mum answered the door , she looked quite different but I gave her a massive cuddle and went indoors . |
| 11 | Good try — but you got it the wrong way round ! |
| 12 | But she offered me a nice sunny room under the eaves at the back . |
| 13 | She went very rapidly indeed but she knew what a long morning it would seem to her mother lying there alone unable to move . |
| 14 | But she knew what a constant and life-deforming worry the money had been . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He waved to me , but she gave me a menacing glare . |
| 18 | I intended to ask the Baronessa Dulcibene why she had come to pay her last respects to this mysterious Englishman but she gave me a glassy look of non-recognition and moved rapidly away with her companion . |
| 19 | She had been disappointed in her first sight of him , but she gave him an amused little smile , hoping that he was not one who doted on cats . |
| 20 | And the other thing about visual things , let's , let's say there is a reference to somebody having piles , but they make it a visual gag |
| 21 | This Meeting know they have no title to impose a Tax upon the Community at large towards this purpose , but they feel it an indispensible duty to express how desirable it would be for the use and service of the inhabitabts of Islay . |
| 22 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 23 | But they do it the other way as well . |
| 24 | The arguments were upsetting , but they gave them a burning desire to win — to prove officialdom wrong . |
| 25 | I was certain he did n't know I was following him , but he led me a pretty dance almost as if he was trying to lose me . |
| 26 | One eveing I dared to stretch out my hand to his plate , but he struck me a sharp blow over the back of my fingers . |
| 27 | He was ever so sorry not to see you but he wished you a merry Christmas . ’ |
| 28 | But he thought it a reasonable request to ask for a route and he took himself away to Tara 's great map room to procure maps for them . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But he gave me a good smile and a big goodbye when I left him so . |