Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I knew nothing at all about Tohoku University , or about the city of Sendai . |
| 2 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |
| 3 | I know how to build those damned weapons but I know nothing about those fancy triggering devices . ’ |
| 4 | But I have nothing at all to complain about . |
| 5 | BELVILLE : O , she may be your favourite as a waiting maid but I see nothing but clumsy curtseys and awkward airs about her . |
| 6 | ‘ No ; but … but I guessed something like that had happened from what you said a while back . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But you know nothing of any kidnap ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But you had something like two feet of snow in New York , you said ! ’ laughed Caro . |
| 9 | But she knew nothing of these things . |
| 10 | I meant to ask her about it this afternoon , but she 'd lots of other people there . |
| 11 | Then again , as to the repairs : it may be that the original lease from the ground landlord contained covenants compelling repairs to be made by the lessee ; but we know nothing of such a lease or such covenants . |
| 12 | but we had one with eight so we 'd have we 'd have the whole thing there twice . |
| 13 | But we had none of that from the Secretary of State tonight . |
| 14 | But we 've nothing like this , yet … " |
| 15 | But we have nothing against foreign investment in British companies , and I can not think why the Hon. Gentleman should take that line . |
| 16 | dir : But we do lots of those . |
| 17 | But they miss one in six . ’ |
| 18 | In Acts we have two vivid descriptions of what has come to be called the communism of the early Church : ‘ All who believed were together and had all things in common ; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all , as any had need ’ ( Acts 2:44–5 ) ; and ‘ No one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own , but they had everything in common … |
| 19 | ‘ He told us how he loved Leanne , but they had nothing in common . |
| 20 | Sarah had told Anne that her grandmother 's lodger Josh Adamson had died of a heart attack at the start of the raid , but they said nothing of this to Julia nor of the casualty lists which were posted up containing many names of people they knew . |
| 21 | Or , they maybe replacing some of these but they got plenty of these , or they 're replacing some of these but they 've got plenty of these ? |
| 22 | But they totalled nothing like two hundred , not much more than half that probably . |
| 23 | The 30 New Zealand supermen — they are only human actually , but they have something like divine status in their own land — fly into Heathrow at lunchtime today for a 13-match tour which next month moves on to Ireland . |
| 24 | These two views of the early medieval economy are irreconcilable , but they have something in common . |
| 25 | has n't been , he 's been even more desperate than to get a goal , but he got one on twenty one . |
| 26 | But he said nothing for 24 hours and later , in a panic , sent police in the opposite direction . |
| 27 | But he said nothing at all . |
| 28 | Marguerite 's rush of words almost drowned out Alain 's harsh intake of breath , but he said nothing at all as Marguerite went on , ‘ Now I know why you could not stay longer . |
| 29 | She looked up into the haughty face but he said nothing at all . |
| 30 | Like his wife , he had heard her voice change when she had spoken Dr Neil 's name , but he said nothing of that . |