Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerald Brennan , writing just two or three years after the war , says in The Face of Spain that the slow hand-clap to attract the attention of waiters had died out , but I heard it in several places in the north . |
| 2 | In fact I broadcast that material , but I cut it into three programmes , and I , I cut in the questions I would have asked if he 'd actually given me a chance to ask them . |
| 3 | But I left it at that . |
| 4 | but I put him on some medicine I got from the chemist and it seems to have calmed it down but his nose is more er hot and cold |
| 5 | Slow , he wrote , but I like it like that . |
| 6 | Mhm , I like it , but I like it like that better . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I 'm sorry , but I like it like this , ’ she said . |
| 8 | ‘ I had to coax two into it because they are not very experienced cook , but I chose them for that very reason , ’ he says . |
| 9 | Now I filed my nail this morning cos it was catching , I did n't file it long enough obviously , but I filed it with that erm you know you opened up the |
| 10 | ‘ It has emptied our account , but I got it for twelve hundred and fifty francs . |
| 11 | I w , but I liked him in that one on a Friday night . |
| 12 | I WAS married four years ago to a girl I loved very much , but I lost her to another man , because I was so incompetent when it came to having sex . |
| 13 | There were other possibles — mostly underworld figures — but I discounted them as red herrings . |
| 14 | ‘ Good point , but you call it in first . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The char is something like a salmon , ’ Mr Robinson said , but you find it in fresh water only . |
| 16 | They all end up the same way but you do it by different ways . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're such a stick sometimes , ’ Mandy said , but she said it with easy affection . |
| 18 | The gears were tricky and elaborate , but she managed them after one or two mistakes , and by the time she had been round once she felt very proud of herself . |
| 19 | She had not yet even recognised what it was , but she knew it for better worth than she had ever yet been given . |
| 20 | But she hated it at first . |
| 21 | So you can take it up with the , the er do whatever he felt necessary , but we left it at that . |
| 22 | They 've taken his dabs and examined the mallet , but we left it at that when we knew the Yard had been called in and you were on your way . |
| 23 | ‘ To buy a player of Kevin 's experience would cost a fortune but we got him for free . |
| 24 | I am not sure that we would think the dancing , except by some of the principals , quite so wonderful by today 's standards , but we saw it with different eyes then , and John would have for comparison his memories of the Cape Town Ballet Club 's brave but handicapped attempt at the last act of the ballet , Aurora 's Wedding . |
| 25 | ( " You had a good try and you used the right sounds : it sounds like that , but we write it like this " ) . |
| 26 | Correct both kinds of error by saying " Yes , that is the way it sounds , but we write it like this … " . |
| 27 | But we called them in Welsh do you see . |
| 28 | So right away you had Hawaiian choirs singing church music , but they tinged it with this Hawaiian melodic sense , which is like a different way of resolving a melody . |
| 29 | But they had them like this and they were square and oblong . |
| 30 | The process may sound wasteful , but they conduct it with great economy . |