Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrival of Deacon Billingsley should have given me the satisfaction that my telephone call had been treated seriously , but I sensed this policeman was not going to offer me any satisfaction at all . |
| 2 | I fully accept that and we hope , but I hope some monitoring is taking place . |
| 3 | ‘ They say bad luck comes in threes — but I hope this time that 's not true . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He is taller than me and he has a sense of humour but I keep that side of my life very private , ’ she said . |
| 5 | it 's still a but it 's a different camp , but I wrote this time because what he tells us I forget , I do n't know if you 'll be able to read it or not so |
| 6 | But I received another note from Mellowes ; it said I was not to leave the office ; I was not to answer the phone ; above all I was not to speak to the press . |
| 7 | The cast and crew get on famously and are throwing yet another party — a ‘ vicars and tarts ’ one I believe ( you 're made for it ) , but I decline this evening 's invitation out of reverence for my Mom . |
| 8 | But I saw that time was much more like the growth of Mary 's reputation , devious and ambiguous , than it was like the straight line , moving remorselessly forward , which Western thought has forced it to prefigure . |
| 9 | ‘ They 've given me a roomette or some such , but I take this thing seriously . |
| 10 | MIKE LESTER : ( Breaking in ) That 's all very well , but I 've another proposal entirely . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , ’ replied Burton , ‘ but I get more money . ’ |
| 12 | No , yeah but I mean that leaflet very likely would n't have you know I mean I think this this leaflet |
| 13 | But I mean that thing ! |
| 14 | But I mean this week er this weekend er , Mr died opposite erm , they 've got a , a detached house there and erm somebody went |
| 15 | Well this , this was a letter of the , granted it was eighty nine , but I mean this paragraph just said , you know , if we , does say that , you know , if we established a , a demand , and I do n't see why we should n't have a bash at . |
| 16 | I decided I must go up to Addis Ababa and try to get permission to start again , but I had little hope of succeeding . |
| 17 | I did it willingly because I still loved his company so much , but I had little money . |
| 18 | But I had some pain passing water today . ’ |
| 19 | Herman asked me to tell them all about Greece — but I had more sense than to do so . |
| 20 | I could have jumped up and battered his foot if I 'd wanted to , but I had more respect than that ! ’ |
| 21 | But I had this polyneuritis coming on and I gr gradually went paralysed . |
| 22 | It had never been done before , but I had this premonition , and of course it proved true . ’ |
| 23 | But I had this instinct that you 'd have a better chance if you first spent some time with me — ’ |
| 24 | But I welcome any participation in the debate I have called for on these issues , provided that it addresses the issues in a realistic way . |
| 25 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I do n't know , ’ says Charles , ‘ but I met this girl in television the other evening , and she said people are going to be dropping off your Matterhorn thing like fleas off a dog . ’ |
| 27 | Andrew Mitchell , in charge here , was on holiday , but I met another colleague , Fiona Sheppard , who looks after events . |
| 28 | but I imagine some person would want to use their own |
| 29 | ‘ But I know that play , ’ said Zeinab . |
| 30 | You know like , i it 's just sort tha , I know that , but I know that story tonight was a fib you know |