Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She does n't try to be Black , but she appreciates Black culture , Black fashion . |
| 2 | Yeah , but she gets more allowance this week cos she was supposed to give me bloody thirty five quid she owes me . |
| 3 | Urwin recognizes that dominant ideas of good motherhood appeal to women 's fantasies , but she endorses feminist prescriptiveness about maternity when she pictures these fantasies as mainly pernicious and restricting . |
| 4 | After lunch , Faith often goes round to see a friend or her mum , who lives nearby , but she spends one afternoon a week doing a big shop . |
| 5 | Katie completed her course in a year — it should normally take 2 — but she refutes any suggestion that General National Vocational Qualifications , as they 're known , are a soft option . |
| 6 | yeah , but she charges five pound cos there must of been some little bits over |
| 7 | But she does ginger tea . |
| 8 | But she says this light was on . |
| 9 | She 's getting on now , but she takes good notice of whatever anyone says . |
| 10 | angina but she takes this spray |
| 11 | But she undercuts this realization with footnotes which describe similarities , but no differences , in the articulation of gender in homosexual relationships ; and which parallel the unconscious splits generated by discourses of gender , with those generated by racist discourses : ‘ When I made generalisations about women ( almost always derogatory ) , I did not include myself in the group I was talking about … . |
| 12 | ‘ But she makes nice chocolate cake and she 's handy when the cook 's on holiday , ’ she admitted as she examined her face in the shine . |
| 13 | But she has such power , such spiritual power . |
| 14 | But she knows this place belongs to NASA , because its name is on signs . ’ |
| 15 | But she starts proper school in September . |
| 16 | But she drops that kid about eight in the morning ! |
| 17 | But he maintains that boxing is not his favourite sport , saying without hesitation : ‘ If my father had had the budget for it when I was young , I would have been doing motor racing . ’ |
| 18 | But he pours cold water on the notion of some 1992 explosion of new business in Europe . |
| 19 | ‘ Attention , a bed for the night as he said , something to do — he 's a bright guy , but he lacks intellectual challenge . |
| 20 | The sophistication of this turn is indicated in its formal lexicon and its syntactic and semantic complexities ( both visible when he reverses Wittgenstein 's famous statement to produce his own aphorism , " Whereof we can not speak , thereof we are by no means silent " ) but he uses this complexity deliberately to obfuscate the sense of his utterance and to enable a swift escape to the World Cup qualifier . |
| 21 | But he denies any law of evolution ; the regularity in synchronic linguistics is not a result of evolutionary continuity . |
| 22 | But he bears primary responsibility for tax and economic policies that lost Labour the election . |
| 23 | but he carries considerable clout . |
| 24 | ‘ Nick 's about seven years younger than me but he has tremendous talent . |
| 25 | The man is an unreconstructed fascist chauvinist … but he has great charm . |
| 26 | But he has good cause for fear — his dad was gunned to death in the street there only three years ago . |
| 27 | But he has little hesitation in declaring that his successor as chairman of Esso has done a better job than he was able to achieve . |
| 28 | But he has little power to compel , that is , by his person . |
| 29 | But he has considerable respect for Derry , a side he has encountered on numerous occasions to date during his speel in charge of Down . |
| 30 | Since then he has turned in some useful performances for the under-21 and England B sides but he has some way to go before becoming a player of real international class . |