Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have to train people to become doctors or engineers or professors , and at the same time to train them in questioning all that — not only in a critical way , but I would say in a deconstructive way . |
| 2 | But I would opt for a self-catering package which enable you to take full advantage of the excellent weekly markets . |
| 3 | ‘ I think I should earn more as the WBC title is recognised as a better class than the WBO but I might come to a 50-50 split . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ No , but I 'll wait for a word with Leon . ’ |
| 5 | No , oh you 're alright but I 'll come in a sec . |
| 6 | There are n't that many , but I could do with a few more clothes . ’ |
| 7 | Stepan crystallizes this ‘ something ’ in Golyadkin and Quixote terms when he tells Mrs Stavrogin ‘ You have always despised me ; but I will end like a knight faithful to my lady , for your good opinion has always been dearer to me than anything . ’ |
| 8 | erm unfortunately , it might sound extremely erm severe , but I can think of a number of people I 've met in my experience as a pastor who really and frankly could not help themselves and need to be treated almost like children again and made to receive help , and there are quite number of those sort of characters , unfortunately , on the streets of Oxford . |
| 9 | ‘ But I can pencil in a few other little misdemeanours . |
| 10 | in n it no but I can look after a baby . |
| 11 | I ca n't remember any of it now , but I used to sit on a crate and listen to her , and think about freedom , stupid things you think when you 're a kid , you know . |
| 12 | You wo n't tear any major muscle groups laughing during Crimes and Misdemeanours or Hannah and her Sisters , for example ; but you may marvel at a film-maker at the height of his powers . |
| 13 | But you could go to a campsite for far less ! ’ |
| 14 | But you could ask for a special audit . |
| 15 | The product is white but you could mix in a slight trace of pigment or water colour to obtain a better match with the pan itself . |
| 16 | But you should descend at a higher rate so as to reach 2500ft before you turn . |
| 17 | You can only go in the future direction in time , but you can go at a bit of an angle to it . |
| 18 | I 've suggested you start with two yarns of medium thickness , but you can weave in a large variety of yarns . |
| 19 | But she ought to apply for a Pony Club polo scholarship . ’ |
| 20 | She felt guilty , but she could say with a clear conscience that her business was so demanding that she hardly had time to think of Northumberland although , in truth , as her successes and problems in Italy had increased , there seemed less and less reason to return to Nora . |
| 21 | But we must distinguish between a type of interaction which is precisely regulated by the syntactic structure of the sentence , and a more diffuse type of interaction , not dependent on syntax , but merely on discourse propinquity . |
| 22 | I have pressed for better freight links , which is another argument , but we must start with a reasonably fast passenger link to Europe . |
| 23 | But we must allow for a certain amount of give and take . |
| 24 | It is not very close to the theatre but we can arrange for a car to take her back after every performance . ’ |
| 25 | Erm we have quite a few helpful people within the sport , but we could do with a lot more friends . |
| 26 | But they would enter into a five year contract and qualify for annual payments of about £30 per hectare for the maintenance of land free of non-agricultural development . |
| 27 | ‘ Borrowers can pay more when rates move up , but they must come to a branch to make a specific request to do so . ’ |
| 28 | Now Dr Winfield — and I have ratified this — made 127 sorties ; he could not have enjoyed his period at the Institute very much because he never seemed to he there , But he would come on a station with some project he wanted to fully research and he believed the only way to fully research these things was to " try them out on the dog " . |
| 29 | He might think he 's fallen on his feet but he 'll come to a bad end , you 'll see … ‘ |
| 30 | And this is important because a man might look very well from one side but he might look like a cheese from another , and that would be a distraction . |