Example sentences of "[pers pn] but [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 're all right if they 're getting the work out o' you but get sick an' it 's another kettle o' fish . ’ |
| 2 | If you have a sympathetic employer and GP you could see whether the person you care for would like to come to work with you but spend one or two days a week on a regular basis in a day centre run by the DHA . |
| 3 | They did n't stare at them but had good eye contact . |
| 4 | Widows ' and orphans ' pensions were not greeted with enthusiasm outside women 's organizations , who supported them but had little influence . |
| 5 | If we 've got to close homes , let's close them but make sure the homes that 's left are warm welcoming and give these people the dignity and the independence to which they are entitled to which they 've earned and which they thoroughly deserve . |
| 6 | The men , who were mostly Sudanis from the south , ignored them but looked uneasy . |
| 7 | He knows that the real purpose of these television interviews is not to enlighten the people who actually watch them but to supply short quotes and sound-bites for the news programmes and the tabloids . |
| 8 | ‘ She could still have wanted him but got tired of waiting — decided he was n't going to leave his wife . ’ |
| 9 | He stepped to one side as Nicholson approached him but made sure that he left a sheet soaked with urine dangling from the trolley , hoping that Nicholson would brush against it . |
| 10 | ‘ I thoroughly enjoyed it but felt five years older after the experience . ’ |
| 11 | Victoria had on her nice towelling bib with a green frog on it but seemed subdued by the ceremonial atmosphere surrounding the meal : the gong and the shouting ; for she was unusually subdued , thank God . |
| 12 | Thus the extreme subjectivism of , for example , the novels of Virginia Woolf , belongs within the same formation as the economic interventionism of Keynes , who wanted not only to preserve the economic system by rationalizing it but to do this so that , within that achieved stability , the real processes of civilized life could be extended , undisturbed . |
| 13 | When John Bull , the great musician , asked for the reversion to the lease of Radnor Forest , the officer in attendance noted that the Queen was disposed to grant it but wanted more information first . |
| 14 | Do not make for it but bear half right aiming just to right of nearest bushes . |
| 15 | ‘ Nothing for it but to try this . ’ |