Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He is taller than me and he has a sense of humour but I keep that side of my life very private , ’ she said . |
| 2 | But I received another note from Mellowes ; it said I was not to leave the office ; I was not to answer the phone ; above all I was not to speak to the press . |
| 3 | But I remember those times with my father as being very traumatic . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Everyone says how awful the teenage years are , and we had our share of rows and problems , but I enjoyed those years with my children — far better than the baby or toddler stages . ’ |
| 5 | I decided I must go up to Addis Ababa and try to get permission to start again , but I had little hope of succeeding . |
| 6 | But I welcome any participation in the debate I have called for on these issues , provided that it addresses the issues in a realistic way . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I do n't know , ’ says Charles , ‘ but I met this girl in television the other evening , and she said people are going to be dropping off your Matterhorn thing like fleas off a dog . ’ |
| 8 | But I know that part of the country and have been there many times . |
| 9 | But I put that pressure on myself . ’ |
| 10 | But I like that kind of pride ! |
| 11 | But I like this guitar for a number of reasons . |
| 12 | I 'm sorry , but I have little sympathy for him . |
| 13 | But I have more chance of improving that than knocking 10 years off Gregory or adding speed to Fox . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I support the Bill , but I have some criticisms of past Government policy . |
| 16 | The hon. Member for Hammersmith can flick through his papers , but I have those statistics before me , and they present a very different picture . |
| 17 | I met a brother-in-law who told me to leave but I stayed another night in our new house just outside the village . |
| 18 | Not only so , but I believe this statement to be deeply theologically inadequate and that various points to be at variance both with scripture and with the Westminster confession of faith the standard and the principle subordinate standard of this church . |
| 19 | I do not remember whether we enlivened the day with a penny ride on a donkey round the White Stone pond but I regarded these donkeys with the respect and admiration rarely afforded by the keenest jockey for his mount and one of my day-dreams ( only once realised and then somehow a little disappointing ) was to save up three weeks ' pocket money and have a 3d ride in place of a Id one , which took you for at least a hundred yards along the Spaniards Road . |
| 20 | She would n't hear of it to begin with , but I see more evidence of it every day . |
| 21 | It seems that the City , with more of it actually , copies with it less , but I think that concept of the extended family is something I yearn for . |
| 22 | Look , I know you do n't want to talk about it , but I think this spell of being apart will do us lots of good . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In fact there were very few guide dogs at that time and erm I 've never felt that erm it 's , I mean maybe just my erm silliness really but I , I never wanted a dog lying about all day because once at the office I stayed put as it were until it was time to go home and I could have taken the dog I suppose during the lunch hour but I preferred that time to erm to reading |
| 25 | But I dismissed these thoughts from my mind and entered our house . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | what would happen if you , let's have a look at G , depends on , what would happen if you were still paying fifty pence , but they gave you four hundred , four hundred grams of chocolate , well you get eight grams per penny , this is another test that you got it the right way up , if it were still only two hundred grams , but you payed more money for it , let's say they charged you a pound , I think you 'd get less grams per penny . |
| 29 | ‘ But you want more outlets for KITS and you want them in the best and most expensive locations . ’ |
| 30 | erm So that at Newhaven at the present day you now have a fossil cliff , now largely buried because the tertiary sands and clays which sit on top of the chalk have slumped over , and so much of the original chalk cliff face is , is now buried , but you have this mass of slump material on what was formerly beach , and the gravel ridges stretch for what , one hundred , two hundred or more metres erm from the bottom of the cliff . |