Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I heard only this morning the story of an Arab girl whose parents have had to remove her from school because she was receiving threatening messages . |
| 2 | But I remember also that Toscanini had a genius in choral work . |
| 3 | I mean I would love to see a newspaper but the current staffing of the office does n't permit that also the costing of it erm but I 've very little input from this department and really while all out and about in the force and just a tip off about something human interest or whatever would be appreciated . |
| 4 | But I mean basically that sort of contract you want to complete . |
| 5 | But I had very little idea of anything at the time and I did n't do very much acting . |
| 6 | Obviously you can have photocopies or laser prints copied on to this material , but I have here some pens and a box of blank acetates which you will have the opportunity later to use if you so wish . |
| 7 | My mangled left hand feels as if it is being eaten by a rat , but I have so much adrenaline surging through my body I could sail . |
| 8 | But erm er so I thought that was er so that was the only thing that I would actually pick up on there erm and the one thing I noticed this time , and you did n't , I mean this was n't the case when you did erm the role play this morning , but this time , and I do n't know whether it was because you had less confidence with what , with actual talking about the product , but you had very little eye contact with Maggie . |
| 9 | But she sits there all night flat as a shadow on the wall and there is music and celebration and other people dancing . |
| 10 | Much as she would have liked to stay , Penny had to hurry home with her budgie , but she learned later that Brownie Owl got the puppy out of the tree and took it home and gave it food . |
| 11 | It 's not the right song for the show , but we had so little time and a decision had to be made . |
| 12 | we were in town on Saturday and I saw two really nice sports bags , but we had so many parcels I I did n't had n't the heart to suggest to Bill we |
| 13 | Well , we know the tomato splats have already gone mouldy on Comic Relief , but we had so many pictures and stories sent in we just had to squeeze out another page . |
| 14 | It was intended as a ‘ one off ’ but we had so much fun it turned into an annual event . ’ |
| 15 | But we trust too many people and er could certainly find burglaries have gone up gone up something like five hundred percent in the last two or three years . |
| 16 | Okay but we have plenty more goals around the First Division yesterday and you 'll be able to see those in a couple of moments . |
| 17 | ‘ But we have so little medicine here that basic first aid is a struggle . ’ |
| 18 | More sophisticated scanners can capture levels of grey as well , but they require significantly more memory . |
| 19 | But they left mighty little trace within the walls of the City of London . |
| 20 | They have now been varied slightly but they make very little difference . |
| 21 | Warm-blooded animals have the same body temperatures at all times , and can be more continuously active , but they use far more energy — and hence need more food — than cold-blooded animals of the same size . |
| 22 | Most colonists remained loyal subjects of the King , but they paid very little money to him and his government and they received very little help , financial or military , from it . |
| 23 | All these trades are quite healthy but they employ very few people given the innovations in cargo handling and the dominance of Scandinavian companies in shipping . |
| 24 | ‘ People have moaned about a Harlequins bias in the current England team , but they did alright this year did n't they ? |
| 25 | Then she hired a machine to do shirts , but they wanted too many shirts done . |
| 26 | They do not have black balls at the New Club , but they have even more members in the legal profession than Muirfield ; and word reached me that the election committee had received objections to my membership too strong to ignore . |
| 27 | These social divisions have other effects , as we shall emphasize later , but they have very little influence on the duties which comprise routine police work , so that routine policing is largely unaffected by religion . |
| 28 | But he had just enough quality not to blame others for his guilt . |
| 29 | It was all very well for Bragg to instruct him to go the rounds of prostitutes ' haunts , but he had precious little idea of how to go about it . |
| 30 | NEALE DOUGHTY ( Twin Oaks ) : ‘ The delay at the start did n't affect him at all , but he had too much weight and the ground was probably too fast . ’ |