Example sentences of "[adj] but [pers pn] [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 fee for performing at Yeovilton was not high but they did offer free fuel . |
| 4 | The revolution at Northampton may have been different but it did have uncanny echoes of what had gone on at Neath . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ It is all very sad but I do wish Kevin and the club success . |
| 7 | Using a mouse is optional but it does make the game more playable . |
| 8 | Using a mouse is optional but it does make the game more playable . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | I 'm incredibly lazy but I do think I 've found the right way or at least a better way than hers to live . |
| 11 | The language is not always clear as the dialects and slang can be confusing but they do convey the right atmosphere . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | The incidence of board theft is thankfully low but it does happen . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Yeah no the Black are good but they do sound like the Stones . |
| 17 | This is tedious but it does provide an absolute calibration on which other devices can be based . |
| 18 | This , too , is entirely reasonable but it does require that attention be paid to compatibilities of systems so that future system integration remains possible . |
| 19 | The process of norm development in work groups is complex but we do know something about it : |
| 20 | The language of a classical play is challenging but it does give the student chance to see how early voice training can be used with a very demanding text . |
| 21 | It 's still disturbing but it does have a certain grandeur . |
| 22 | ‘ Inquiries are continuing but we do believe these incidents may be connected , ’ said the spokesman . |
| 23 | Like rabbits , they are born blind but they do have some very fine body hair . |
| 24 | I know you are very busy but I do hope you can help in this way . |
| 25 | Willy De Roose may have struck a lucky year enabling him to make the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to winter in the Arctic but he did do an enormous amount of preparation and historical reading beforehand for his planning of the voyage so that he was able to snatch opportunities whenever they came . |
| 26 | I 'm 30 , and I would n't go rushing into anything unexpected but I do think a great deal about this . ’ |
| 27 | However , the major problem , and you Ma'am have already touched upon this as well as the Chairman and I am sorry to be repetitive but we do serve all yachtsmen , two and a half to three million of them whilst being financially supported by only sixty five thousand of them . |
| 28 | That does not make them quiescent but it does diffuse their conflicts . |
| 29 | Academically , this test is not very accurate but it does have some value as a rough comparative test between different materials . |
| 30 | I ca n't say it 's been marvellously successful but I do know for a fact that the conditions of the working class was improved tremendously by organizations in the thing which has come to be described as trade-unionism . |