Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [be] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I nivver said I could read Indian signs , but them 's some make of jeep thing . |
| 2 | But I 'm that wee bit bigger — |
| 3 | But she is all wickedness ! |
| 4 | But she was all Terry 's Liz were going mad cos she 'd through to garage . |
| 5 | Kelly would understand , of course , but she was many miles away , working on location , and Shae did n't even have a contact number . |
| 6 | But we 're all friends . |
| 7 | But we 're both suspects . |
| 8 | But we are both primates , and though we have often functioned as one organism we have nevertheless brachiated through the forests of adventure at rather different levels , and have seen through different eyes . |
| 9 | Mr Chamberlain 's services to the State are infinitely greater than any I have been able to render , but we are both men who are giving all we can give to the service of the State ; we are both men who are , or try to be , actuated by principle in our conduct ; we are men who , I think , have exactly the same views on the political problems of the day ; we are men who I believe — certainly on my side-have esteem and perhaps I may say affection for each other ; but the result of this dynamic force is that we stand here today , he prepared to go into the wilderness if he should be compelled to forsake the Prime Minister , and I prepared to go into the wilderness if I should be compelled to stay with him . |
| 10 | It can not come off , but we aré such masters of philosophical self-deception that it can seem to , and then ‘ it can seem as if the rules of grammar are in a certain sense an unpacking of something we experience all at once when we use a word ’ . |
| 11 | But they 're all users , moulders , deceivers . |
| 12 | it is a lot , but they 're all part of the same thing . |
| 13 | but they 're all money , money , money are n't they ? |
| 14 | He 's bringing half-a-dozen bodyguards with him but they 're all amateurs , made up of officers from the Zimbalan army . |
| 15 | yellow pine , but they 're all sizes , I said oh I said you 've got some nice old pine , he said oh there 's two guys come use it for furniture |
| 16 | Eleven million erm , but they 're some way down the track , they 're not at the top of the hierarchy |
| 17 | Yeah , but they 're more money are n't they ? |
| 18 | This is n't meant to be a test , a mental MOT for your man , but they are all topics you can talk about , which will help you get to know each other better . |
| 19 | An OR symbol X may have lots of productions , but they are all unit productions . |
| 20 | ‘ But they are all cousins of Duke William as well . |
| 21 | Teacher : But they are all shells . |
| 22 | Some are blue and some pink , some have pockets and some not , but they are all examples of what it means to be a shirt : they all exemplify ‘ shirtness ’ — the universal . |
| 23 | Reports of sea serpents say they look like smooth snakes , but they are many times larger than the biggest snakes on earth : the longest seem to be about 200 metres . |
| 24 | erm Monsieur Mitterand 's relationship with erm Chancellor Schmidt for example is certainly not yet anything like as close erm as Chancellor Schmidt 's relationship with ex-President Giscard was , but they are both socialists , erm they do have a certain amount in common , and I see no reason why they should n't quite quickly build another erm relationship erm that would be quite similar to what happened before . |
| 25 | But they are more symptom than cause . |
| 26 | but they were all stars er , in their day , you know ? |
| 27 | Jackie he was he was looking he was for something and he was looking for something in a hurry and I could n't find out I like T-shirts in one pile sweat shirts in another pullovers in another jeans in another but they were all sort of |
| 28 | They were better informed than he 'd imagined , but they were some way from guessing the truth . |
| 29 | But he is another reason why you should be careful . ’ |
| 30 | But he 's that Doctor , he says , er just show him that wee tracer , and he 'll know , but |