Example sentences of "but in [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 2 | you know you just still bewildered because you do n't understand , I mean like I go to this night class and apparently I , I learn from it , but in actual fact I do n't , I come out I get eight out of ten , nine out of ten , or ten out of ten and I have n't got a clue what it 's about |
| 3 | I think I went down to most people to say they ca n't , but when you point out something to them , they say yes I can see that , look there 's this as well and I think culturally er were led to believe if you do n't succeed in it , erm but in actual fact I think that you all do , but perhaps I think the books do , either assess it and give it value or , or still allow it to happen |
| 4 | But in actual fact I think that for preliminary erm instruction I 'm , I would be better . |
| 5 | that it was extremely good but in actual fact it went on until twenty to nine at night |
| 6 | I expected to have my family ripped to shreds , even though my childhood was extremely happy , but in Freudian analysis you look to the family for the source of all your anxieties . |
| 7 | I am not mad , most noble Festus , but in sober sadness I have suffered this day more bodily pain than I had before a conception of . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've seen one other case — where a woman fell on her face — but in that case she had other facial injuries which Lewis did n't have . |
| 9 | Interestingly , the word ‘ Riserva ’ ( spelt thus ) is also applied to Italian Chianti — but in that case it means the wines are three years old before being bottled . |
| 10 | Until 1892 Townsend 's practice was made up of minor domestic and ecclesiastical work , but in that year he won the competition for the design of the Bishopsgate Institute , the first of the three outstanding public buildings that were to make his reputation . |
| 11 | He held his hand out in a gesture for her to come into the house but in that second she knew she never could . |
| 12 | I need not refer to his history in any more detail up to June 1990 , but in that month he went to a residential school where his mother continued to visit him and in October 1990 he absconded from that school . |
| 13 | It 's only three or four paces , but in that moment he sees Tommy tense his arm at full stretch and turn his head away . |
| 14 | It 's been two years in the studio but in that time we 've probably only spent four months recording . ’ |
| 15 | Tritsch Tratsch lasts only about three minutes but in that time it does not waste a second . |
| 16 | The whole performance had taken no more than a minute , but in that time he 'd succeeded in turning the Chamber 's table into a fish-market gutter . |
| 17 | Cardinal Hume is 70 years old , but in that programme he looked at the vocation to the religious life with all the zest of youth . |
| 18 | That 's what I mean about when he sort of ran off that night I thought , in one way I was pissed off with him but in one way I thought well at least he can you know ? |
| 19 | I managed to keep boys away from him , but in one alley he disappeared . |
| 20 | The coming of the rains brought no physical relief to the besieged but in one respect it made things worse ; the smell from the decaying offal and from the corpses of men and animals became intolerable and hung constantly , undisturbed by wind , as a foul miasma over the fortifications . |
| 21 | But in one area we take a pride in being stubbornly traditional . |
| 22 | It is suggested that it was derived from the hauling of boats along the river and that it was from this place that manual hauling of boats along a tow path began , but in all fairness I think this can be discounted . |
| 23 | To be sure , the characterisations are low key , but in other pix they have manifested depth , plot propulsion and story meaning . |
| 24 | But in real life she has had to make the difficult transition from child to adult star . |
| 25 | Since Edward Elgar 's first symphony in 1908 , British music has enjoyed its greatest age ; but in international reputation it has made Britain little more than one musical nation among many . |
| 26 | The English embassy in France has a mansion in the Rue des Medeans , but in early spring they moved to a small castle outside Paris , the Chateau de Maubisson . |
| 27 | They did find high incidence of eye diseases among local animals , but in each case they concluded that the most likely cause was infection from a common pathogen . |
| 28 | But in due course I discovered that the local historian had done very little actual firsthand gathering of data himself : he was a wealthy man and had employed a number of impecunious schoolteachers to be his ‘ research assistants ’ . |
| 29 | These , in themselves , do not do much harm , but in unpainted ply they form little traps for moisture and bacteria and so lead to trouble . |
| 30 | It was not necessary , he could have rung once he had arrived , but in this way he committed himself . |