Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a [noun] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't go to Lourdes for a miracle but Lourdes makes me appreciate each day and thank God for Zoe . |
| 2 | I do n't know anything about Gary as a footballer but he 's got nice legs . |
| 3 | Ian Redford pulled one back for St Johnstone with a header but Nicholas scored again after 75 minutes to restore Celtic 's two-goal cushion . |
| 4 | ‘ I met Kay in a nightclub but did my courting in Woolworth 's where she worked , ’ he says . |
| 5 | Erm and that you know I wrote to , I , I discussed that with Alan as a problem but then I took it away with the pro forma that says and you , now the target pro forma 's got columns you 've got to fill in and I |
| 6 | McKinsey concluded that there was a potential future for AEA as a business but that the current organisation was not well structured to pursue it . |
| 7 | No hoping to go over to Ireland for a week but not |
| 8 | James Spencer QC , prosecuting , alleged Mr Nichol approached Mrs Chandler in a field but when she ignored him he pulled her down the bank , sexually assaulted her and hit her on the head with a rock or rocks . |
| 9 | Tish Reid beat Gill in a trial but is not considered to have Olympic potential in a single . |
| 10 | Incidentally readers of a more literary bent will be interested to know that the poet W B Yeats lived next door to Crapper for a spell but fails to record the fact in his memoirs . |
| 11 | to Majorca for a week but it wo n't be to laze around it 's for it 's for walking . |
| 12 | He is revered locally , and especially by Mrs Joe , as a man of great sagacity and judiciousness but is , in fact , a pompous , self-satisfied fool , who bullies Pip as a child but fawns upon him when he becomes a young man of fortune , and postures as the ‘ founder of his fortunes ’ since he had been the means of introducing Pip to Miss Havisham 's . |
| 13 | The speaker had not been in Lesotho as a tourist but as the representative of a road-building company on a contract funded by the World Bank . |
| 14 | He asked Stan for a job but he would n't give him one |
| 15 | We need to liaise with Europe as a city but there must be three provisos . |
| 16 | Rumours were rife that Wigan were poised to swoop for the 22-year-old Great Britain star and Saints were lining up Featherstone Rovers ' international Paul Newlove as a replacement but Mr Latham adds : ‘ There have been no enquiries for him he is contracted to us . ’ |
| 17 | Typical is Krishnamurhty Lakshmi Kanthan , a computer scientist living in New Jersey , who regards Briggs as a maverick but nevertheless a pioneer . |
| 18 | The director had a lot of respect for Douglas as an actor but since this was to be Silverstein 's first theatrical film he did n't want to have to find himself dealing with ‘ A consummate ego ’ , as he put it , and then added , ‘ no , huge ego ’ . |
| 19 | We will return to Royston for a while but then it 's Scotland for me and France for you . |
| 20 | NSE 's name , and livery , was chosen to give a new character and significance to the rail system in the south east , and to emphasise its unity as a system , no longer a series of independent lines owning loyalty not to London as a whole but to long-abolished independent railway companies . |
| 21 | An ankle tendon injury , suffered at practice on the very day he completed his century at Durham , side-lined Smith for a fortnight but he is most certainly a name to watch this summer . |