Example sentences of "[adj] but [pron] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's being very brave but he did adore her , you know . ’ |
| 2 | We did n't go to the funeral , but me cousin Dora who was Aunt Lucy 's daughter , she got there was er Walter , , Walter and Leonard were in a pram and me cousin Dora went down Lane and wh to the corner of Street and watched the funeral go past up to I 've got vague memories of that they 're not clear but I do know that he took us to watch me dad 's funeral past the corner of Street and I presume that now that it must have gone up Street up to Street street , cos he 's buried at Ryecroft . |
| 3 | The final option , fitting your own hard disk , is definitely the cheapest but it does need some skill with a screw driver . |
| 4 | The fee for performing at Yeovilton was not high but they did offer free fuel . |
| 5 | The disadvantages of friendship are very few but they do exist . |
| 6 | The revolution at Northampton may have been different but it did have uncanny echoes of what had gone on at Neath . |
| 7 | One job has led to another but I do remember a particular film audition which I walked out of , much to the concern of everyone , my agent , and the casting director . |
| 8 | Our role is to propose a prudent council tax and that is what we 've done and at the end of the day I agree , the figures are juggled one way or another but it does show a net saving of one point three million and however you look at it Mr Mayor I 'm sure the leader of the council , if he adopted these proposals , could then find somewhere a sum for a stress control officer . |
| 9 | We were very fortunate but I do remember the guns used to go off and I , when my so my son was born the , the guns were going off all the time from the castle . |
| 10 | Well I promised our our Sarah I 'd spend some time with her I ai n't gon na say too much but she does get a bit upset at times |
| 11 | like this very much but I 've got ta Ben |
| 12 | As a textile man I do n't mind woolliness too much but I do object to vagueness because this motion is so vague that it can mean as much as you want it to mean while , at the same time , it says to little as to leave an escape route for it 's supporters . |
| 13 | ‘ I may not like London over much but I do know a bit about the place and one thing I know is that it 's big , bloody big . |
| 14 | Er well Martin does have an elderly mother , she 's not financially dependent on us as such but we do try and keep a track of her finances and if she needs help we , we erm help her out . |
| 15 | ‘ It is all very sad but I do wish Kevin and the club success . |
| 16 | Using a mouse is optional but it does make the game more playable . |
| 17 | Using a mouse is optional but it does make the game more playable . |
| 18 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 19 | I 'm incredibly lazy but I do think I 've found the right way or at least a better way than hers to live . |
| 20 | The language is not always clear as the dialects and slang can be confusing but they do convey the right atmosphere . |
| 21 | And , under not a dish but his pillow , folded into his pyjamas : ‘ How 's the bite Bob , sorry but you did ask for it sweetie . ’ |
| 22 | Not only that but they do have different ways of achieving their maximum personal utility . |
| 23 | she obviously did n't know this for a long time and then one day I said to her , well , it was lovely meal and all that but I do think your mark-up on the wine is scandalous ! |
| 24 | Dick , thank you for those kind words , er , specially about er my book , and I think I am considering appointing you as my agent er , you also said er that I 'd dr drawn the short straw indeed you er whispered to me that I was the sacrificial lamb this morning well we 'll see about that but I do know that I have the great honour to be invited to speak to congress this morning on behalf of the G M B parliamentary group . |
| 25 | I can take or leave that but I do like the main course , I do like |
| 26 | Erm I was , I , I thought that , when you covered all the policies you then went through and summarized all the needs and I thought you were n't going to go back and , and er explore further so what you did is you covered all the policies and then you summarized everything and then explored all the needs and s and at one point I thought that you were n't actually going to do that but you did come back and do it , you just did it in a different way . |
| 27 | I think it 's fair to say he 's the first one to acknowledge that but he did win the gold medal and as a result he became yachtsman of the year and at a time when there is very a much heightened interest in the problems of disabled and people with visual impairment it was a real boost for sailors who have those problems that we did so well during the year . |
| 28 | The incidence of board theft is thankfully low but it does happen . |
| 29 | As their only match preparation for the Test , it was patently inadequate but it did alert them to the vast difference between the cricketing conditions and environment in the Caribbean and those in Australia and New Zealand where they had performed so impressively in gaining the semi-finals of the World Cup . |
| 30 | We fixed it up as well as we could — which was n't well but it did give us both somewhere to live away from our parents , a first real taste of independence . |