Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [adv] [vb base] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am dark haired and tan quite easily , but I also have a lot of moles and freckles . |
| 2 | We must have sport , drama and music to enrich the children , but I also have an objective to make the children aware of city life and the wider world outside the community of small agricultural villages . |
| 3 | I want the maximum degree of unity , but I also want a treaty to be constructed that carries no inexorable commitment to a united states of Europe . |
| 4 | I want a galvanised chassis but I also want a diesel engine of about 3 litres capacity . |
| 5 | ‘ I like having him at home , but I also need a day to myself now and again , just to be able to think my own thoughts . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ Merrill said , blindly thrusting her notebook into her handbag , ‘ but I already have a date . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But I already have an assault charge hanging over me , so in the end I had to leave it to the stewards . |
| 8 | But I well remember the shock of amazement to hear from the excavator that the trench dug to hold the vertical posts of the building , in the typical military method , was of one period and the vertical posts of another . |
| 9 | We did have a couple of suicides , but I soon put a stop to that . |
| 10 | ‘ Her particular interest in industrial development issues has been most useful but I fully appreciate the pressure of her business commitments — and in turn the value to the Highlands ’ of her companies ' continuing successes . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But I always like a beach to myself . |
| 12 | So I do n't usually fill it straight away anyway till I 'm finished and but I always put the date like today 's date . |
| 13 | I was really , really tired , I was dead tired and , but I always make the tea . |
| 14 | yeah , but I always get the impression with Jason that he would n't enjoy anything unless he |
| 15 | It has a K-type spectrum , but I always find the colour less pronounced than with most bright K-stars , though binoculars show it to be decidedly ‘ off-white ’ . |
| 16 | But I always have a fork , a knife and fork ; it 's … it 's bad manners to eat with your fingers . ’ |
| 17 | I lead a reasonable existence with cheerful and friendly companions , but I always have the feeling that it is n't real and does n't matter , although I 'm very aware of everything around me . |
| 18 | Reading the news for ITN means I sometimes work peculiar hours but I often have a weekday morning off , and that 's when I play golf . |
| 19 | Mr Diplexcito , who has fought for three years to get a suitable house for his family — he has been offered several by the district and regional authorities — said : ‘ My wife and daughters will be staying with relatives , but I only have the car as a roof over my head . |
| 20 | But I now relish the challenge of rebuilding the club . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I was thinking more of Pretty In Pink , but I really like the idea of music in films , where the song 's less incidental but more a part of the film . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm terribly sorry , but I really have no idea what you 're talking about . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I bought a house in Northumberland with a big garden , but I never get the chance to use it . |
| 24 | but I never forget the way that Doreen when she said we were doing things , she said you should n't of started it she said , you 'll only get kicked in the teeth at Saint Joseph 's |
| 25 | ‘ Maybe I 'm perverse but I never plan a picture . |
| 26 | ‘ But I still get the feeling that you are here for a definite reason . ’ |
| 27 | The Fantasia in F minor , written for mechanical organ but one of the composer 's most intensely dramatic utterances , comes off fairly well ( but not as well as with Frantz and Eschenbach , who are compelling in this great work ) , but I still prefer the weight and variety of organ tone here ; and if the Adagio of the C minor Fugue with its two-piano writing is a trifle ponderous , the D major Sonata for two pianos that follows is not all so . |
| 28 | I may be getting on a bit but I still know a thing or two . ’ |
| 29 | But I still have a map drawn by one of his colleagues , marking all the main sea-trout and salmon lies on Stack ; worth its weight in gold , quite irreplaceable . |
| 30 | But I still have a cry , sometimes , when I realize that my mother is dead — and that 's years after . |