Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb base] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bought along this brochure , you can have a copy if you like but I mean at the back there are forty five institutions all virtually paddling their own canoe . |
| 2 | you know , but I mean at the moment I keep , he 's coming home some nights and , you know it like , he 'll come home and say I had a really good morning the kids were great , but as for the afternoon , and like he said when you 're teaching you 're only as good as your last lesson , you know |
| 3 | Yeah , but I think at the moment Lesley 's finding everything boring ! |
| 4 | Is this a good idea or is a bad idea , so there are problems , yes the , the test , some people will say the driving test is out of date but I think at the moment it 's the best we can offer given all circumstances . |
| 5 | Peter , the things we 're talking about are highly commendable , but I suspect at the back of the minds of most kids at school the question of examinations — whether they 're going to get their O level , or their A level , or their G C E or whatever — to what extent are university people involved in examining ? |
| 6 | But you belong at the Foundling Hospital and we were only able to borrow you for a little while . |
| 7 | I have stood twice as co-operative Labour candidate and did n't win either time , er much to my husband 's disgust , because I , but you see at the time er Labour was very , very low but erm the local people , you can tell by your boxes , was very loyal to me . |
| 8 | But you look at the diagram they 've given you which is not exactly the scale and they do this quite a bit . |
| 9 | But they swarm at the windows in such numbers they black out the light and the air . |
| 10 | We push his legs but they buckle at the knees , so we have to hold them up above our heads as we push to make them stay straight , then as we shove and his trousers are rolled down by the rim of stone , his arms flop over the far side of the shaft rim and it suddenly gets easier to push him . |
| 11 | But they begin at the beginning , with three works derived from the Greeks ; the first is Euripides 's dramatised cantata of desolation , The Trojan Women . |
| 12 | But they cringe at the idea that someone else may benefit at their expense . |