Example sentences of "[noun prp] but [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was gon na clean my tank tonight Jean but I suppose that 's |
| 2 | The military passing by called up a helicopter which took her to hospital in Mogadishu but she died five minutes after her arrival . |
| 3 | Gordonians were second bottom of Division Three before Saturday but they came good in the final game , defeating Morgan Academy 29-0 to leap-frog the Dundee club . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , he had a very good record in England but I feel hi is sacrificing skill at the expense of power — or brute force if one is to be honest about it . ’ |
| 5 | I mentioned erm benefits of er of exempt income and I showed er a feature with this and I apologize that the fact that 's it 's TESSA but I do this with TESSA because it 's the one way that you can illustrate the point I want to make . |
| 6 | I DO N'T KNOW ABOUT NANCY BUT I FELT EXHAUSTED ! |
| 7 | I do n't know about Nancy but I felt exhausted ! |
| 8 | D. Farms are smaller than those of East Anglia but they use more labour . |
| 9 | I wondered if my master knew something about my tryst with Mathilda but he had that distant , innocent expression . |
| 10 | A pack of 18 Squiggles usually cost £10.50 from Schumi but we have 20 packs to give away absolutely free . |
| 11 | Gary Hancock opened the scoring with a drop goal for Scarborough but they trailed 13–3 at the interval , Tim Elliott scoring a penalty in the second half . |
| 12 | In the 36th minute the Dragons had their best effort of the half when Coleman was found by a precise ball from Springett but he shot wide . |
| 13 | I 'm not knocking Mr Venables but they did most of the work in the season anyway . |
| 14 | that 's not bad and I went round to see Helen to see if she wanted this one for baby Anna but she said this one there is another one in there , erm |
| 15 | THERE is another festival of sport this Sunday but it requires some channel switching . |
| 16 | that Mothercare but I use this as a spare one . |
| 17 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |
| 18 | Well no , that 's very fair comment Bev but I think this is a dodgy do . |
| 19 | He was gon na pay George but I said that one , that one would n't |
| 20 | ALAN Kernaghan is ready to book a World Cup passage to America but it means waving goodbye to Middlesbrough . |
| 21 | Chris , I remember when me and Chrissy used to play with it tha Du mainly Duplo but we had some other tt like the Lego . |
| 22 | Mosaics from the latter site , moreover , also included features which not only are without parallel at Withington but which recall other pavements , from Somerset and Dorset . |
| 23 | ‘ We do fly to St Kitts from Antigua but we serve many small islands and I am not going to say which one is involved . ’ |