Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a person who comes in for two hours every morning , but … but she does just the very rough work . |
| 2 | Natasha is at university in Bradford now , but she comes home every weekend to go to the games with us . ’ |
| 3 | He does n't like going to school for a start , but he goes else the old man beats him up . |
| 4 | But he goes down a treat at the annual summer conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
| 5 | But he goes back a lot further — writing key speeches in Number Ten during the Heath government two decades ago . |
| 6 | I 'm sure he must be joking , but he picks up a pair of liquorice-coloured Everlasts and walks to the ring apron . |
| 7 | The young New Zealander came down to earth with a bruising bump in the World Cup and still has much to learn , but he remains potentially an all-rounder of world class . |
| 8 | But he sells out every time he plays a show in Merseyside . |
| 9 | But he has n't a clue ! " |
| 10 | But he has n't the nerve for this kind of thing . |
| 11 | Trainer Frank Berry reckons he is now in the clear but he has n't the form to recommend him . |
| 12 | ‘ Allie 's a good boy , but he dresses up a lot , does n't he ? ’ |
| 13 | But he gives only the outline of an answer to this question , for he does not say what the criteria are . |
| 14 | He 's a tough Bronx kid but he acts up a storm . |
| 15 | It is n't a large place , but it takes up a lot of your time . ’ |
| 16 | Morse shook his head : ‘ It provokes the desire , but it takes away the performance . ’ ’ |
| 17 | I 'm quite sure that the way forward for teachers and parents is within some kind of co-operative framework , and the only way that can work effectively is for each to be aware of other 's needs and difficulties , and the kind of barriers that have existed in the past for parents to get into schools I think are being lowered by the schools , but it takes almost a generation , I think , for parents to stop being frightened about what school is doing and the kind of parents who 've had bad experiences themselves in schools , I think , have enormous difficulties in approaching teachers and I 'm sure the answer is in terms of co-operative activity — children and schools , schools and parents , and all of them together with myriad of outside agencies that are available for children with severe problems . |
| 18 | But it takes quite a time for the liquid to solidify and the glass to splinter and fragment . |
| 19 | This is helpful in pointing to long-term shifts in sexual norms in the last century ( though its dating is misleading ) , but it combines both an evolutionist teleology ( with the present appearing as little more than a culmination of ineluctable historical trends ) and a use of the metaphor of repression which in the end is emotive rather than analytical and obscures more than it reveals . |
| 20 | doctrine of original sin under the guise of a genetically determined bio-grammar of cultural values , by colleagues who would clearly like to think of themselves as hard-boiled scientific rationalists , both amusing and disconcerting ; but it points up the difficulties of the problem ! |
| 21 | The programme does not apportion blame , or claim a conclusive link , but it points up the lack of long-term monitoring on people working with the chemicals , and suggests warning labels on the products do not always make clear what type of protective clothing is suitable . |
| 22 | Several modifications have been made to this bridge in the century and a half since its completion , but it remains basically the same bridge that Telford designed , and was one of the great civil-engineering achievements of the period . |
| 23 | He does n't think it 's fair but it depends how the health authority spends its budget . |
| 24 | you say , but it does n't a character |
| 25 | Is er , I do n't know if there 's something wrong , but it does n't the heat is n't well Angie 's one 's like boiling hot |
| 26 | Such a widening of perspectives obviously leaves no place for the by now out-dated claim concerning the objective nature of linguistic analysis , but it opens up a whole range of stimulating opportunities for the exploration of the ways texts function in society . |
| 27 | It is bad enough when parents treat ordinary children as though they were scabs and bunions , but it becomes somehow a lot worse when the child in question is extra -ordinary , and by that I mean sensitive and brilliant . |
| 28 | but it keeps together The idea that they 're going to broke up br broken up into competing er items , worries people in my constituency and it also alarms me . |
| 29 | But it ignores entirely the question of Parliamentary accountability and its division between co-ordinator and co-ordinated . |
| 30 | The plant may be different but it uses basically the same manufacturing processes that the Partners licensed from the Belgian company of Solvay et Cie in 1872 . |