Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [vb base] [adj] [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 | They did n't go into details , but apparently they have medical records from their own GP and a letter from their local hospital . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But inside I feel more compassion , really quite deeply — it 's just hard to let it show . ’ |
| 5 | Like Tamas , most draft dodgers are barely in their twenties , but already they exhibit classic symptoms of exile 's syndrome : relief at getting out , guilt at leaving their family and friends behind and an unbreakable addiction to the news about the wars in former Yugoslavia . |
| 6 | But anyway I remember one time and it er I think it was Christmas time , and there was a German they brought Germans in just same as us you know Fritz . |
| 7 | But once we use Christian values to complete it , it renders the system logically inconsistent ; because we can not introduce Christian values on a piecemeal basis . |
| 8 | ‘ People are coming here drunk , worried or tired of the chores of the world , but always they leave this place refreshed . ’ |
| 9 | I think I 'd like to start by making a few general points , er and then er it will be a matter for for others to be somewhat more specific , I I I think I can say that the issue of a new settlement of a new settlement in Greater York is is a fairly unique situation , because we have agreement between the development industry and the County Council , and that 's something of a rarity , but also we have mild support from the Department of the Environment , and as Mr Davis has already said , that is backed by public support . |
| 10 | They practise their swing , but often they pay little attention to the situation at hand . |
| 11 | The several sects of Dissenters are glad to be rid of Popery also ; but now they expect glorious days for themselves " . |
| 12 | Thirty years ago , rubbing a cut clove of garlic round the salad bowl was considered daring , but now we import 4,572 tonnes of the stuff , mainly from Italy , Spain and France , and as well as its wide ranging culinary uses there is increasing interest in its medicinal powers . |
| 13 | And on the front page they say : ‘ We did n't want to share our sorrow but now we have good news to tell . ’ |
| 14 | But now we have good news to tell that we 're going to have a baby some time in December or January . ’ |
| 15 | But now we have good news to tell . ’ |
| 16 | But now we have good news to tell . ’ |
| 17 | But now I want another challenge . ’ |
| 18 | I still have my good and bad days , but now I have another choice . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh of course there are always exceptions , but mainly I think romantic novelists are quite wrong . |
| 20 | Socially and psychologically women are brought up to care for relationships , to care for people , they want to do it well , where it goes wrong they tend to blame themselves , but equally we have eminent members of the judiciary who in the past have commented in some of the cases of severe assaults on women , the kind of er quote that you were making |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Koels also live in Australia but here they parasitise other species , and the young do not mimic the host . |
| 23 | ‘ But then what do these Ministry Inspectors know about education ? ’ resumed the headmaster hastily , discarding doubts as quickly as he had assumed them . |
| 24 | ‘ But then we go straight back . |
| 25 | ‘ Distribution always seems to improve during the Christmas period , ’ he said , ‘ but then we bypass inefficient distributors by going direct to the excellent wholesalers . ’ |
| 26 | You just ca n't trust these thespians — any residual loyalty vanishes once the last cheque has been banked : according to the Evening Standard , Maureen Lippmann , who played the ‘ typical Jewish mother ’ Beattie ( BT , geddit ? — we did n't at the time , but then we detest brutal acronyms in place of meaningful names ) to the mutual benefit of British Telecommunications Plc and her bank balance , when asked to reveal her favourite word , replied , without hesitation , ‘ Mercurial ’ . |
| 27 | But then I put two pounds , which should have been off Linda 's . |
| 28 | But then I love growing houseplants . |
| 29 | ‘ But then I love beautiful things , do n't you ? ’ |
| 30 | But then you get on-hand experience from it . |