Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I spent a lot of time attending to it , but I ran all the way , which is good enough , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ But I finished all the food … |
| 3 | Erm no , he does help me a few things but I do all the digging for him because he ca n't bend down too much . |
| 4 | Oh he does , he gives er his secretary and switch board girl a box of chocolates and a bottle of wine and but I do all the Christmas cards |
| 5 | But I did all the work of a Queen and I needed friends too . |
| 6 | ‘ But I have all the rooms to get ready for the guests that are arriving … ’ |
| 7 | I do n't think of myself that way of course , but I enjoy all the attention . |
| 8 | Yeah , but I think all the things they said about him were true , I hate the man I do . |
| 9 | But I think all the silliness is all part of actually adjusting to the condom , and something to do with the embarrassment that because they do n't know enough about it they , they do n't want to be er , seen to be silly |
| 10 | But I think all the time where you have to keep on fighting all the time , so now like you get so mouthy in the end you ca n't shut up , you know [ laughs ] , you end up winning the argument 'cos you ca n't shut up , like . |
| 11 | On our way home we tried to find a Mothers Day card for Mark to send to his Mum , but I think all the Dalseattie shops must have the same supplier and sell those ghastly pink-ish cards with really crass ditties inside ugh . |
| 12 | do if I 've got anything , but I find half the time , I mean , it 's like jeans and things , if you go into Marks 's you can spend fifteen pound on a |
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| 14 | Wait a minute we 've got to light th before we start everybody 's to sing and when I cut the cake , the pink bit is decoration so you do n't eat the pink bit but you eat all the rest of it , alright ? |
| 15 | It is difficult late in life to put away the past , and start again , but you have all the means at your disposal to make a success of the venture . |
| 16 | So in other words that kind of dream represents an extreme example of erm of an aborted dream , but the very fact that it 's repetitive and you keep having them , Freud would say , is , is a demonstration of the fundamental idea , th that the dream attempts to try and put the past right as it were , you try and dream about it , but you fail all the time . |
| 17 | and you can do a package deal as such , but you incorporate all the advertising they do , but you 'll have to get in there and kind of knock a deal out |
| 18 | She does n't understand half of what we say but she listens all the time . |
| 19 | Everybody 's got their , erm what 's her name , Jill from New Zealand , is quite young , but she has all the potential of being an excellent teacher , she 's , she 's very enthusiastic , very straightforward , she 's |
| 20 | Remember that there is a £10 prize on offer each issue for the lucky article out of the hat — that 's not much I know , but we spent all the budget on meeting ‘ refreshments ’ ( hic ) . |
| 21 | But we hoped all the time we would turn the corner . |
| 22 | ‘ It was touch and go but we got all the product back to the warehouse in Sweden before the end of January , ’ said . |
| 23 | ‘ But we want all the complications down in black and white before we switch on the green light , ’ said Mr Wright . |
| 24 | Gramsci 's theory of hegemony is a partial answer to this ; but there remains unanswered the question how development occurs at all in peripheral areas . |
| 25 | These do not , as Liebich ( 1982 ) points out , amount to a theory of bureaucracy , but they contain all the elements of the debate about the role of bureaucracy in different socio-economic settings that occupy the minds of contemporary Marxists . |
| 26 | How long they have been in partnership I can not be sure , but they show all the signs of a close musical understanding — temperament and technique in the service of the music , rather than vice versa , plus a healthy respect for the demands of textural clarity . |
| 27 | Oh yeah , hang on , I ca n't think who they are but they came all the way . |
| 28 | Some were friends , some were enemies , but they changed all the time . |
| 29 | He had been born in England , had never seen India , spoke English as his cradle tongue and had forgotten all the Hindi he had ever learned but he had all the immigrant 's protective reactions and all his self-consciousness . |
| 30 | He was given more than enough encouragement to pick players like Arsenal 's 30-goal Ian Wright — but he ignored all the cries . |