Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could insert ‘ Christian truths ’ ( or doctrines or promises ) for ‘ Christian presuppositions ’ , but I prefer to speak this way to focus attention on what a presupposition does rather than on what it is . |
| 2 | My billetors were kind , but I had to spend considerable time in their sitting-room , and I felt this was an invasion of privacy for both of us . |
| 3 | but I had to lie any way cos otherwise she would be more annoyed , I was going , I , say I go , I |
| 4 | ‘ But I had to have some excuse , you see . |
| 5 | But I tend to eat more chicken and fish and things like that now |
| 6 | It may be that I wo n't , but I like to keep that option . ’ |
| 7 | My predecessor had read law and obtained a first , but I chose to read social anthropology simply because of a pleasure in the subject . |
| 8 | Whether the ground actually became firmer or whether I was spurred on by fear I do not know , but I began to make better progress . |
| 9 | But I wanted to close that window first , make sure he did n't come back . |
| 10 | ‘ But I wanted to do some scuba ! ’ he said in outrage . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not down , I 'm still grazing the mountain but I wanted to get some planting done . ’ |
| 12 | But I tried to keep one thing — the foot — in focus throughout , because it seemed to be moving slowest . ’ |
| 13 | I shall not go over all that ground again , but I want to mention one point . |
| 14 | But I want to put another point of view . |
| 15 | ‘ But I want to win this race . |
| 16 | I do not support the new clause , but I want to bring one aspect of it to my right hon. Friend 's attention . |
| 17 | The council agreed to buy the station for — it 's about three hundred and twenty five thousand , but I want to make this point , that it is n't their intention to close the boat station . |
| 18 | But I want to begin this morning by thanking you on behalf of the group , because all of us owe the G M B an enormous debt of gratitude none more than myself . |
| 19 | Once , as he sat cross-legged on his mattress reading , deep in thought , I grabbed both his ankles , and yanked his legs , saying , ‘ Excuse me , but I have to take this wheelbarrow out to the garden . ’ |
| 20 | It was n't at all what Luce had expected , and , seeing her puzzled frown , he said hastily , apologetically , ‘ I hope you do not mind using the rear entrance , but I needed to go this way to get to my next appointment . ’ |
| 21 | Well I think that is true , perhaps , as I have said , in terms of the ecological situation , but I think to translate that level of expectation to the situation vis-a-vis the Gulf is another matter altogether . |
| 22 | Yeah but I need to do some typing . |
| 23 | But I need to make three pound , cos I owe Anne a bit of money do n't I ? |
| 24 | conducted a further study ( experiment 1 c ) that was almost identical to the first but which failed to yield any evidence for context-specificity . |
| 25 | Then that would sort of feed itself , but you had to have one man feeding the the scrapping machine and another man with a shovel , pulling away the the the the the the scrapped at the side and then you had to have another man feeding the long hay into the chaff cutter . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought I might have hurt you — God knows I tried to be careful , but you seem to have this knack of wiping out twenty-five years of control and finesse with a single touch . ’ |
| 27 | You save it , but you forget to extract that range to a separate file . |
| 28 | But you need to charge that sort of rate to maintain a hotel of this style and size . |
| 29 | But you have to have some level of arousal has to be something pumping round you round your blood your brain has to be working in some way to be able to perform . |
| 30 | The last time she had been to the office she had been confined in a poky little interview room near the editor 's office , but she hoped to avoid that fate this time . |