Example sentences of "but [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , but perhaps in this spot I might find wildlife to slay . ’ |
| 2 | I ca n't speak for London hotels , but basically in this region we have a fair number of esteemed country house hotels , as well as the inner town hotels , and all of them offer a service at a very competitive price , and perhaps this is something we should encourage — the American visitor to stay out of London erm and come and stay in London 's country , as we call ourselves , round the Thames and Chilterns . |
| 3 | But obviously on those parameters you ca n't have hard and fast rules for each vehicle . |
| 4 | But obviously with twelve matches I 'm not gon na be able to spread it like I did last year . |
| 5 | But tonight of all nights they had to act against their immediate inclinations . |
| 6 | That 's all for now , but tonight on Central South we begin a series of special reports on community care . |
| 7 | I would like to have been watching the expression on his face , having put the question to him so bluntly , but just at that moment I had to slam on my brakes for two gaudily painted trucks , one of them with La Resurrección elaborately painted in red . |
| 8 | OK , but just at this moment you 're not with any of them . ’ |
| 9 | Yes now what I meant was that , that erm in a group like this , the the th th the leader or the leadership role may be relatively minimal and the individualism of the members may be relevant , but I hope it was cos I I think it 's a mistake for class in groups and that so one would hope in this kind of group , the individual variation would be so important that these kind of group phenomena that Freud is talking about in this book but clearly in other groups they 're they 're more important , partly because you can never organize a group by kind of having a meeting with everybody . |
| 10 | But later in that letter he asked : |
| 11 | I am not offering excuses , but up against such class it was unfortunate that we could not field a side at full strength . |
| 12 | Once they were in place , not only could peasants buy ( rather than just occupy ) their dwelling-places , but also in certain circumstances they could " acquire in full ownership " the land which the charters assigned them . |
| 13 | The lesson to be derived was one of moderation : " Not only in the exercise of political power should men of prominence be considerate towards those of low estate , but also in private life they should — if they are sensible — treat their slaves gently . |
| 14 | Er And nothing should happen but we have n't heard , but also after that date we are high and dry again so I would quite like to keep as much in the kitty from the money we 've raised , for the admin course you know , the future of the admin course , as possible . |
| 15 | He 's only a so-so golfer , but today of all days he gets a hole in one ! |
| 16 | They had been crossing a scree ; there had been many loose stones , and footing was difficult , but surely at that point they had been traversing a gentler slope , and her employer had actually been standing on a flattish stretch of granite when she had fallen . |
| 17 | Nixon 's ambitions were to crash on the rock of Watergate , but even without that disaster it is most unlikely that he would have come even close to fulfilling his mandate , In that , he would not , by any means , have been alone . |
| 18 | But even at this distance we can clearly recognise in Joe Johnson a player who made a sterling contribution to the Palace cause in the early and formative years of our club . |
| 19 | These issues are discussed later in greater detail , but even at this point they must be raised and current policies and machinery for assessment and selection set alongside those for curriculum planning and development described earlier in this chapter . |
| 20 | Journalists do sometimes react against the excesses of newspaper partisanship but even on these occasions it is proprietorial and editorial power that emerges unscathed and victorious . |
| 21 | But even but even in that case we did have er did have a case with a young a youngish lad who his accountant had written it |
| 22 | It happens that Mr X 's preferred language is French , but even in that tongue he could not write or spell with any normal level of competence and his grammar was almost non-existent . |
| 23 | But even in remote situations I would strongly advise against this , after doing as much in a cottage in Appin only to be greeted by the landlord who had popped in to see if we were alright . |
| 24 | But even in this tumult she felt that Mark was the sane , controlled life-guard , trying to calm her . |
| 25 | But even among established units we can distinguish grades of centrality . |
| 26 | Her marriage was in ruins but here in this place she found peace . |
| 27 | I got it in the summer erm but then for some reason I decided I did n't like it . |
| 28 | But then at some stage he had to move out from behind me to get the bed up . |
| 29 | But then in another drawer you find something maybe even more useful . |
| 30 | ‘ I was gasping for air in the final 20 minutes , but apart from some stiffness I feel fine , ’ declared the 23-year-old schemer . |