Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps I give that impression because I have strong views on certain subjects and because I do n't go in for the social whirl , for fast cars and fast women . ’ |
| 2 | But basically I think most courses now , not sure there 's actually a legal requirement , I do n't think it is , but most of them want a at least a year 's sort of full time experience in erm , you know , d dealing with underprivileged people really and their problems and people who ca n't cope for one reason or another , and how er y you can er er sort of help them and what sort of relationship you can build with them and so on , and how |
| 3 | ‘ But inside I feel more compassion , really quite deeply — it 's just hard to let it show . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ People are coming here drunk , worried or tired of the chores of the world , but always they leave this place refreshed . ’ |
| 5 | I suppose it could sound like a conscious courtesy — an agreeable gesture , but hardly one denoting that love has roots below the gum of consciousness . |
| 6 | They practise their swing , but often they pay little attention to the situation at hand . |
| 7 | But now she denied that memory . |
| 8 | But now it seemed this Adam Burns was determined to dredge up her other life all over again . |
| 9 | Manchester at first lost out very badly on rail investment , but now it has some compensation in the Windsor Link and is going ahead with an advanced tram system that will take over a number of heavy rail routes . |
| 10 | But now I slept this morning on the settee . |
| 11 | But now I want another challenge . ’ |
| 12 | I still have my good and bad days , but now I have another choice . |
| 13 | For not only are they bad for women — who find it difficult to be canonized unless they are nuns , queens or martyrs — but equally they form another monolith . |
| 14 | I 've never believed it , but sometimes she makes such leaps of comprehension … |
| 15 | And erm but then they 'd all Margaret and erm everybody had jumped on the bandwagon and said , . |
| 16 | But then they said this Casey was a cop . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But then what do these Ministry Inspectors know about education ? ’ resumed the headmaster hastily , discarding doubts as quickly as he had assumed them . |
| 18 | It was , of course , hilarious in itself but then I got this bit of smoked salmon ( coloured red of course ! ) and draped it across her upper lip and it looked a bit like a moustache . |
| 19 | But then you have these bands , like Def Leppard … |
| 20 | I wanted you to know how important you are ; how much I care about you — value you ; and … . ’ her voice quivered and stopped , but then she took another breath and finished her declaration steadily enough : ‘ and how much I want you . ’ |
| 21 | But then she heard another faint groan and saw that a figure was sprawled immobile across the double bed in the centre of the room . |
| 22 | But then she produced another harpy-bat shrieked and vanished from screen . |
| 23 | The Development Corporation of Harlow New Town made a flat available , but unfortunately he had little opportunity to make his mark because of recurrent illness and eventually resigned his post in September 1958 . |
| 24 | But however we label this stage , it is clear that many , if not most , women experience a quite severe sense of loss when their children leave home . |
| 25 | But again I stress that light-grasp is all-important , and I am not at all happy about the very small telescopes which can be bought cheaply . |
| 26 | But otherwise I find more cons than pros . |
| 27 | Yes , I should like to bring in erm support about the first lady about the her child , but actually I 've more agreement with the last woman speaker when she was saying there was too much saturation about the Gulf . |
| 28 | But seriously I think some people overreacted to a few throwaway lines in the mag — you 'd see far worse in many ‘ family newspapers ’ . |
| 29 | Many people in a management position maybe using P Cs on their desk , I mean those move more and more into the organization as people work with spreadsheet people work with electronic mail and so on and so forth , and the ability to use the P C as their terminal , their window into the accounting application , but secondly they have these tools such as spreadsheets which again are able to directly access the database and the accounting data maintained within it . |