Example sentences of "[adj] but [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At some stage during her crisis-strewn life Emily had gone to the University of Lancaster to study French but she 'd never completed her course . |
| 2 | ‘ I certainly do n't go on stage ill prepared but I have never had a script for any of my shows . |
| 3 | NEWSPAPER ARTICLES about the consequences of a shortage of oil ( or , as now , what happens when there is too much of the stuff ) appear almost daily but we hear too little about another vital industrial resource . |
| 4 | I do not know what is wrong but I do n't feel right ’ , he said . |
| 5 | I mean I do n't , I do n't believe that your government is stupid er it may be immoral on occasions , it may be wrong but I do n't believe it 's necessarily stupid . |
| 6 | Whether Annie and Lizzie had heard of the Sunday visit or had marked her absence was n't clear but they appeared almost conciliatory compared to previous days . |
| 7 | Trainer Frank Berry reckons he is now in the clear but he has n't the form to recommend him . |
| 8 | Sonya Miller , 17 , trainee hairdresser ( right ) ; ‘ This is OK but I feel more comfortable in dresses . ’ |
| 9 | The lad Kenny 's OK but I do n't know how . ’ |
| 10 | Banker Alan Clarke , who has spent years working in America , says : ‘ The American women I have been out with have always been successful and good-looking but they do n't have the ability to laugh at themselves . |
| 11 | ‘ I shouted at it in English but it kept on . |
| 12 | Now someone whose doctor is elderly could quite naturally refer to him or her using ( 45 ) where superscript 3 indicates rising tone while mid tone is indicated by the absence of a superscript numeral : ( 45 ) The following sentence : ( 46 ) is also perfectly acceptable , and might even be translated by the same words of English but it carries instead the meaning that the person concerned ( who might be twenty-six years old and a fairly fresh graduate from medical college ) has been established as one 's doctor for some time and is not , for example , another practitioner who has recently moved into the district . |
| 13 | I 'm told I 'm good at English but I do n't get very high marks . ’ |
| 14 | Oh that 's a new commercial but I do n't think very good . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ This is all beautifully rosy but he has not mentioned his plans to tax companies by half a per cent on the payroll for a training tax or plans to enforce a minimum wage on small and medium sized companies which will be particularly badly hit . ’ |
| 16 | and he said you know , he said they have n't been turning up at that chapel for them , when they 've preaching but you did n't crack on they knew anything about that but he just sort of said said no you know remain non-committal . |
| 17 | The the men are no longer liberated and can have them so they just y it 's quite funny but you do n't get them now . |
| 18 | ‘ You know , it 's funny but I 've never really been asked this question before . |
| 19 | And yet he can watch the telly and he reads the newspaper and yet you do n't , he ca n't understand English but he 'd be watching this right and it is ha laugh so something must be funny but he du n no what 's happening . |
| 20 | Elsewhere in the town the number of burglaries remains high but there have also been a large number of arrests made in the last seven days . |
| 21 | Nigel became despondent but I did n't . |
| 22 | For modules which have been requested for offline but which have not yet been copied onto a media item , the estimate will be zero . |
| 23 | ‘ They say they 're not interested but they send in helicopters and troops to take measurements . ’ |
| 24 | wrote to them and said yes I 'd be interested but I have n't heard anything since . |
| 25 | In a move which has upset Leeds ' manager Howard Wilkinson , Batty said : ‘ I had heard that Blackburn were interested but it has all happened so quickly . |
| 26 | I said Ben was wet but I did n't , his bed was n't , so god knows |
| 27 | I mean I 'm not saying he 's alcoholic but he goes out with the lads and he you know he 'll he 'll sort of thud up the stairs . |
| 28 | Jezrael thrashed to get free but it did n't work . |
| 29 | Prices are a bit steep but you do n't go to weddings every day . |
| 30 | He had a reputation for being a bit slow-witted but it did n't perturb him in the least . |