Example sentences of "[pron] but [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did I but know it , it was the writing on the wall . |
| 2 | Yeah I but think he gave me all his drink . |
| 3 | Now again I but give us as to the length of time that elapsed between flying the door door breaker and you radioing ? |
| 4 | Had she but known it I had already made up my mind to get better , and nothing in the world was further from my thoughts than death . ’ |
| 5 | Had she but known it , this was why Freddie , rightly suspecting the fact , had refrained from making any passes at her . |
| 6 | The sight of her had pierced him , making her the enterer , had she but known it , and him the entered . |
| 7 | Ballater , had she but known it , was far from complacent . |
| 8 | and pick what they thought , was the best thing you could do , and then do n't , do n't tell you but get them made . |
| 9 | I could lend it to you but got it at the moment you know . |
| 10 | We saw you but did you have to come running over |
| 11 | No , it 's it 's erm it 's somebody who , all they do is write your answers for you but dictated I m if you 've ever been an em especially I mean I used to be I usually end up doing the amanuensing for courses that I 've taught on students on my paper . |
| 12 | " I am writing not to denigrate you but to help you … |
| 13 | Brenda Campbell says to ride a 100 miles on a horse is quite something in itself but to ride it at a fast pace and be able to get off is semothing else and it 's the best thing you can do with a horse |
| 14 | It was never going to be a career for me but kept me in beer money and taught me about how to deal with the public . ’ |
| 15 | it was someone else that told me but told me not to tell anyone and I had to beg it out of him cos I just wanted to know . |
| 16 | Let me but let me just say one thing . |
| 17 | One : that you were sexually attracted to me but fighting it . |
| 18 | BELVILLE : If I be set upon a wrong thing you must not dispute with me but do it and expostulate afterwards . |
| 19 | Well nothing but d' ya know what I mean it 's sort of . |
| 20 | ‘ Will your family still be here ? ’ asked Nina , glancing from Rachel to David and back to Rachel again , a slightly bemused look on her face as if she did n't really understand what was happening between them but wished she did . |
| 21 | The correct policy with respect to them was thus not to abolish them but to subject them to constructive supervision . |
| 22 | Jesus said some strong things about the Old Testament : " Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets ; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them . |
| 23 | They grabbed the garments and escaped but were spotted by police in a patrol car who followed them but lost them in Litherland several miles away . |
| 24 | There will be moves to tighten up this part of the bill in the Commons to try to stop some of the waste imports from countries which can dispose of them but find it politically expedient to export them . |
| 25 | She had originally intended to resell them but found she had grown attached to them and had built shelves in her sitting-room . |
| 26 | It was , had we but realized it , an omen of things to come . |
| 27 | Erm we 'll do a fairly simple one and then use the same one but make it a little bit more complicated . |
| 28 | You can get a like , a similar one to this , perhaps not as good as this one but buy it for twenty quid nearly . |
| 29 | Michelle does put her hair up herself but said it usually slips out because ‘ there 's just too much of it , besides , it 's just so well-conditioned ! ’ |
| 30 | Overbalancing , she clutched at Finn to save herself but pulled him over with her . |