Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb base] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think printing Hartley Peavey 's letter in the same issue as mine was maybe a bit of a gaffe — but I hope the local amp repairer does n't have a slip of the brain when he fixes your amp , or your local mechanic does n't connect up your battery in the car properly . |
| 2 | ‘ But I walk a fine line of ambiguity because I 'm also reaching a straight audience who need the education much more than the gay audience . |
| 3 | ‘ When our two wee ones came along , we had to have the ixtra room , but I prefer the old part of the house . |
| 4 | But I write a tolerable hand in English . |
| 5 | Going down with my dad who had been president of the lifeboat here for about fifty years , to meet the lifeboat as come in with survivors , I was just a wee boy at the time but I remember the Icelandic trawler , the Geyser and one of the first to be put ashore off the lifeboat that night , was a wee lassie , and she came across the pier and she came to me , because I was the only kid down there that night . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman challenged me , but I challenge the hon. Gentleman to provide the examples of where we said that . |
| 7 | But I take the humanitarian line that this permits Mr Tim to engage in full imaginative sympathy with those tongues of Babel who throw themselves on his mercy . |
| 8 | This tale is challenged in the notes for the Erato album ; but I take the above quotation from the memoirs of Tchaikovsky 's close friend Nikolay Kashkin , and it rings true enough . |
| 9 | ‘ You probably do n't want to see me this morning , but I 've a good reason for being here . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't get much time for reading , ’ said Wilcox , ‘ but I 've a rough idea what he was about . |
| 11 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 12 | ‘ But I 've a nasty feeling , ’ she concluded dismally , ‘ that if you do find anything there , it 'll just be Alex 's body . ’ |
| 13 | But I get a different feeling now when I look out over London . |
| 14 | But I get a woozy feeling when I watch them spoon away , and the plates , twenty or thirty of them — all fill up with the same thing … |
| 15 | But I mean a fixed rate is a bird in the hand , really , and I think they 're quite good at the moment . |
| 16 | Yes , of course ; but I mean the Catholic religion . ’ |
| 17 | They might tell them the stories , the bible stories at school , but I mean the general church |
| 18 | But I mean the bottom bit obviously we 've got to talk about whether we actually do want |
| 19 | But I mean the intensive care girls Joy I ca n't say enough about them , they were wonderful |
| 20 | No , but I mean the whole day , I |
| 21 | But I hear a distant shout . |
| 22 | One psychotherapist commented : ‘ Sex for singles sounds good and I wo n't even say that it is not sometimes , but I hear the other side when people talk to me . |
| 23 | ‘ But I know a great deal about you . |
| 24 | ‘ But I know a special place , in the campagna — in the country — where you will see vineyards and ancient castles and rolling hills , where we can drink a wine that the gods would have kept for themselves if they could . ’ |
| 25 | I like that one and now you 've put me in a difficult position cos I like that one , have that one , but I like the lockable cupboard on the other one . |
| 26 | But I like the competitive edge in English football . ’ |
| 27 | I shall attempt not to intervene again , but I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way with his characteristic courtesy . |
| 28 | I love the consistency of the theory , but I hate the actual theory . ’ |
| 29 | But I suppose the real thing about Neighbourhood Watch as I see it is it 's there to create a , a neighbourly spirit . |
| 30 | But I suppose the only difference in this is the . |