Example sentences of "but [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His nickname is Crash but thankfully he has never done that . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not sure what time he 'll be through with his meeting , but perhaps I 'd better get back to the hotel and show willing just in case he 's there . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And Kate , the vacancy is now filled , but perhaps you 'd better take names and addresses of any applicants just in case they 're needed later . ’ |
| 4 | Hari rubbed her hand over her eyes , it had been a strange day , an eventful one in which she had quite clearly made an enemy but perhaps she had also made a friend of Edward Morris . |
| 5 | ‘ But perhaps she has yet to realise what she 's letting herself in for , using her name to get you installed here , allowing you to share their transport … |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm kind of emotionally retarded … but basically I 've just written about things how I 've felt about them , myself , emotionally . |
| 7 | A Both will establish separate homes , but constitutionally it has never mattered whether the Prince and Princess of Wales were happy and together or not . |
| 8 | because he had abused her all those years , erm , but apparently she 's also got a , not the right sort of word , a pathological hate for men in general |
| 9 | But obviously you 've never known love . |
| 10 | Maybe the women in Guido 's life were rather more accustomed to red silk nightdresses with plunging necklines and the sides split halfway up the thigh , but personally she had never possessed anything quite so racy . |
| 11 | But suddenly he felt utterly exhausted . |
| 12 | Probably few people would adhere strictly to Comte 's scheme nowadays if it was presented to them in its original form , but nevertheless it does still seem to underpin the structure of first degree courses in the main natural sciences ( physics , chemistry , biochemistry , biology ) and the typical faculty demarcation between the natural and the social sciences . |
| 13 | It 's always been my intention , but somehow it 's never happened . |
| 14 | She should have thrown it out years ago but somehow she 'd never had the heart . |
| 15 | It was ridiculous , but somehow she had never overcome a resistance to working with children . |
| 16 | Of course , she had come up against death , or the prospect of it , many times in the course of her work , but somehow she had never acquired the sort of immunity against emotional involvement , that almost instinctive shutting off , as so many of her colleagues had seemed to do . |
| 17 | But yesterday he 'd specifically stated , ‘ You 'd better dine with me tomorrow , ’ and he would n't go back on his word , would he ? |
| 18 | Yeah but like I 've still got more than well it 's about the same cos you 've got less at the top I think . |
| 19 | Oh we used to do one with erm the band , sometimes I 'd get it right , others I would n't , but like you 've just said they come |
| 20 | Her husband , up to the time of his death , had been a miner although there had been occasions when he had made scarcely any wage — but still he had never sent his children to the mine . |
| 21 | But clearly he 's still got a lot to learn . |
| 22 | In those days they lived next door but now they 've only got their offices there . |
| 23 | The Co-op always had refused to sell to Maxwell , but now they HAVE suddenly agreed to sell to the administrators of his estate who now own the whole site . |
| 24 | Football League president Gordon McKeag is among ex-directors promised lifelong access to the St James 's Park boardroom — but now they have now told to use a former refreshment room on match days . |
| 25 | She 'd never had cause to fear a man , but now she felt oddly threatened . |
| 26 | But now it has all changed . |
| 27 | I think some of them do , yes , I know s er some of them have said how much they enjoyed it when it started off first , but er but now it 's just got that wee bit more serious . |
| 28 | But now he felt fully refreshed . |
| 29 | But now I 've just done a refill . |
| 30 | But now I need more land . ’ |