Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have battled well in recent games but I was heartened by some of our football in the midweek win over Grimsby Town . |
| 2 | No , but I was fascinated by this man because he wanted above all things for us to record the Bartók Music for Strings , Percussion , and Celesta . |
| 3 | ‘ They were very interested in me , but I was used to that from men . |
| 4 | ‘ I wanted to be a city worker , not an industrialist , ’ he said , ‘ but I was put in this group by my teacher . ’ |
| 5 | But I was thrown into this Guild secretary business and er you ca n't do both , not when you 're trying to erm a family and then by then my son was away and erm I went got a job and the Co-op gave me a job . |
| 6 | I am locked in a time warp , but I 'm lost in several time warps . |
| 7 | But I 'm told on this day , May thirteenth , thirty seven years ago , and that should bring back a lot of memories for many of you , the Three-Ninetieth flew its hundred and fifth combat mission from this station and many of you remember that day . |
| 8 | But she was filled with such tenderness that she cradled his head as he lay against her breasts and whispered , ‘ I 'm sorry , my darling , I 'm sorry … ’ |
| 9 | But she was spared from that ordeal when Anthony Bourgois pleaded guilty to charges of false imprisonment and carrying a knife . |
| 10 | Far below was the cobbled courtyard , the ancient walls of the castle , the drawbridge and the winding road leading back down the narrow valley towards civilisation , but she was trapped in this gaunt grey fortress with this brooding stranger , and she longed only for escape . |
| 11 | She had not intended to bring this out into the open in quite this way , but she was left with little option , and she had a vague instinct that in the long run it might reap results . |
| 12 | That was all , the slightest touch of his fingers on hers , but she was reminded of that other time he had touched her , when he 'd helped her out of the pool , and now , as then , something inside her responded to his touch . |
| 13 | Secondhand , of course , but we 're used to that . ’ |
| 14 | But Ms Short added : ‘ Women share our values but we are seen by these women as male dominated and the most unsympathetic of all the parties . |
| 15 | The only time we was allowed to smoke more was on association , but we were banged up most of the time . |
| 16 | ‘ Eric was late , ’ he said , ‘ but we were prepared for that and we waited . |
| 17 | Elizabeth and I corresponded as usual , though there was no immediate likelihood of our meeting ; but we were used to that . |
| 18 | The Firm uses a few muscle-brains in the Middle East and so on , but they 're employed at several removes and a lot 's done to make sure they stay overseas . |
| 19 | Both uses can in French be covered by the same word ancien , but they are distinguished in that the separative use requires prenominal position , while the standard use has the adjective after the noun , as in : ( 43 ) l'ancienne école de Charlie a fait banqueroute ( 44 ) cette école ancienne a hébergé les fils des tyrans depuis des siècles The same distinction is also marked overtly in Thai ; in this case it is realized not by a difference of syntactic position , but by a different choice of lexical item . |
| 20 | In Albert 's ‘ wheezes ’ , human beings are often behaving foolishly , but they are observed with some warmth . |
| 21 | Rhynchosaurs did not diversify — radiate — into so many different forms and niches as many other major groups of animals , but they are known from many parts of the world and they certainly did change and evolve with time . |
| 22 | Shifts could be made from one monoculture to another in response to market conditions and were made both in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; but they were made without any fundamental change in the traditional crop economy or any mitigation of the problems of rural under-employment . |
| 23 | But they were condemned by some people , there al there 's always condemners , are n't there really . |
| 24 | Andy Warhol , Stockhausen , Peter Brook , appealed to her , but they were lost on most Iranians . |
| 25 | Wars were never cheap , but they were fought over such a span that they became progressively more costly . |
| 26 | On enquiring their purpose , the boatman explained they were used for drilling by the Orangemen on the estate , but they were passed on each week to the Sinn Feiners for their drill night ! |
| 27 | Law 's claims were therefore substantial , but they were known to few outside parliament , Glasgow and Manchester . |
| 28 | True , he went to rouse Sir Ralph but he was searched for any weapons , he had no key , and even if he had entered the room , favoured son or not , Sir Ralph would scarcely have offered his throat to be cut . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It looks like an accident , ’ he said with a certain delicacy , ‘ but he was experienced with that knife , was young Mr Vickers , and after Angela Brickell , after Mr Goodhaven , after your little bit of trouble … |
| 30 | But it is governed in some detail by statutory requirements , and so is undeniably a system of statutory regulation . |