Example sentences of "but [subord] [pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if your dad switches the light on for anything |
| 2 | She smiled at the baker too , rather warmly , not for the sake of Saturday 's bread bought cheap on Mondays but because his wife detested the Irish in general and that " bold , brazen strumpet from the top of St Jude's ' very much in particular . |
| 3 | But whereas her father earned the respect of his people by staying in London throughout the Blitz , the Queen has few positive personal achievements to show for her four decades on the throne . |
| 4 | Its contents were still very much in doubt when Cottle reached Alfoxden ; but before his visit ended the famous title had been chosen , and the decision made that the volume should begin with ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ and include ‘ sundry shorter poems ’ of Wordsworth 's , most of them written since the beginning of the year . |
| 5 | Margaret Thatcher 's distaste for royal commissions is well known , but when her government faced the most serious foreign policy misjudgement of recent years — the failure to predict and forestall the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands — it was time to send for Oliver Franks again . |
| 6 | But as my mouth framed the words the little man looked down at me appealingly as though he knew what I was going to say . |
| 7 | Pliny intended to try and evacuate people living on the coast immediately beneath the volcano , in the area which is now Torre del Greco , but as his galley approached the coast it was showered with hot ashes and sizeable lumps of pumice from the volcano . |