Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They say bad luck comes in threes — but I hope this time that 's not true . ’ |
| 2 | We do n't name him but whoever is in a particular spot should be responsible for a certain area , which in in fundamentally it is done that in quite a number of instances but I mean one thing that springs to mind is that a lady shall clear the ladies toilets . |
| 3 | But I had this instinct that you 'd have a better chance if you first spent some time with me — ’ |
| 4 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 5 | Katie completed her course in a year — it should normally take 2 — but she refutes any suggestion that General National Vocational Qualifications , as they 're known , are a soft option . |
| 6 | They 're buying disposable presents like giving theatre vouchers and erm I do n't know what else but she said disposable things that people can have some fun with . |
| 7 | So not only must we establish that we have mutual life goals , but we need reasonable assurance that each partner has adequate commitment to those goals to persevere . |
| 8 | Erm , we would think of others , would n't we , not only do we have our own National Anthem , but we have other songs that that arouses from time to time . |
| 9 | Editor , — Martin E Wilkie and colleagues have prepared a comprehensive review on diagnosis and management of urinary tract infection in adults , but they made several statements that are not necessarily firmly established or on which recent views have changed . |
| 10 | Both the monoamine oxidase inhibitors and the tricyclics were discovered empirically , but they aroused great hopes that the chemical disturbances in the brains of depressed people might at last be understood . |
| 11 | Not all living things fly , but they do other things that are just as improbable , and just as specifiable in advance . |
| 12 | But he opposed any suggestion that representatives of the environmental movement might sit on the technical committees set up to decide on the safety of any release of genetically manipulated organisms into the environment . |
| 13 | I had some guys come up , and they were , they were really pissed off with me because , my mum sort of like , this guy just done this with th th the stall next door , but he left some stuff that he obviously already had things of , which he did n't think it was worth him buying , and this guy came round , and they were obviously from one of these , you know how you get erm , secondhand erm record stores |
| 14 | Editor , — Nicholas Wald rightly emphasises the importance and the ethical nature of randomised multicentre prevention trials , but he makes two statements that can not go unchallenged . |
| 15 | But he pledged last night that he would still be leading the team for tomorrow 's League game at Darlington even if Flashman does sack him for the third time in a year . |
| 16 | But he pinpoints another factor that influences the way the players perform together — company culture . |
| 17 | Indeed , the Consumers ' Association have a publication entitled Taking your own case to court or tribunal designed to assist the layman wishing to take his own case rather than instruct solicitors ; but it warns potential litigants that to take on a particularly complicated legal action without legal help would be madness . |
| 18 | But it has such appeal that the casinos are reporting more feverish betting activity than they 've known in a long time . |
| 19 | Erm , like this country Germany has , not only a National Anthem , but it has various songs that are also nationalistic . |
| 20 | Most people do not think of the Department of Social Security as a great taxing Department , but it raises enormous sums that go into the national insurance fund to pay benefits . |
| 21 | I must emphasise that these conclusions are quite tentative , because of the lack of data , hopefully as we carry on , and maybe get more schools involved , we 'll get a bigger set of data , then we can actually do some statistical analysis , and , to be more certain of the results , but it shows general patterns that we 'd expect , so it makes , it shows that it 's quite easy for the schoolchildren , and it fits in very well with their geography courses , and the new G C S E curriculum . |
| 22 | This is an identical result to the one just described ( Fig. 3.1 ) for the maximum bone count , but it provides additional information that there is considerable bone loss more or less evenly spread across the mammalian skeleton ( except for the phalanges and metapodials ) . |