Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb base] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that she supported any other party , but I gather the former deb failed to register in Westminster , where she has a Notting Hill flat . |
| 2 | but I realize the same thing , I said erm , |
| 3 | I 'm not English , Irish nor French , but I have the same opinion as both Mr. Schwabb and Dr. O'Donohue . |
| 4 | When challenged about this you replied , Yes , but you have the least experience in the golf industry . |
| 5 | Oh yeah , oh there 's hundred 's of jobs want doing round here again , but you do the same ones over and over again and I think to myself what a waste of a day . |
| 6 | I do not know which gramophone company the Secretary of State works for , Mr. Speaker , but we hear the same old gramophone record every time he comes to the Dispatch Box . |
| 7 | Both decisions involve compromise , but we believe the latter approach should now be taken as it targets a sufficiently small group and does not necessitate an expensive mass screening programme . |
| 8 | But we have the same view of comedy . |
| 9 | Reports may be brief or lengthy but they follow the same pattern . |
| 10 | But they mean something entirely different but they say the same words . |
| 11 | Tallis invokes Frege 's distinction between ‘ The Morning Star ’ and ‘ The Evening Star ’ , which are different expressions with different senses or meanings , as would be apparent if we tried to translate them into another language , but they have the same referent ( the planet Venus ) . |
| 12 | But they have the same source . |
| 13 | One was a hunt for witches , the other for Communists , but they involve the same function of the human mind . |
| 14 | Both Bell and Howell and Rank-Aldis make versions of this machine : bell and Howell 's is the Language Master , Rank-Aldis calls theirs a Card Reader , but they perform the same function . |
| 15 | They may disagree with each other profoundly , and compete to outdo each other relentlessly , but they share the same notion of the contest and adhere , more or less , to the same rules . |