Example sentences of "but [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When speaking to Marco in the prison for instance , he tells him he is bound to be deported , and that there is no hope for him ; Alfieri would realise it was hard for Marco to take , but respected him enough to tell him the absolute truth . |
| 2 | They took Rye and then attacked Winchelsea , but found it heavily defended by the Abbot of Battle . |
| 3 | The facilities start with a remote switch socket for connecting the optional FC6 foot controller , offering remote switching without tying up the MIDI in socket ( I tried the FC6 but found it more suited to a keyboard player , so would recommend a standard MIDI switching pedal ) . |
| 4 | He keeps his liquor just on the other side of the room , but catch him actually dishing it out himself . |
| 5 | Robert wanted to go over to him , but judged it best to stay where he was . |
| 6 | A closer look at this challenge will be afforded in Chapter 5 but suffice it here to say that the military 's vested interest in the established planning system , long a fixed point on the compass , may be changing . |
| 7 | Kubota has at least half a dozen Alpha chips in the labs , but says it still has a long way to go before there is sufficient software support to bring out the Titan 2.0 . |
| 8 | Clare has worked for Rentokil at Felcourt in departments such as the post room , the canteen and industrial products , but says she most enjoys her switchboard work with her colleague Dawn Lucas . |
| 9 | The Prime Minister has postponed a Commons debate on the Maastricht treaty , but says he still plans to forge ahead with a bill to ratify it . |
| 10 | Tonight he 's smartly dressed in shirt and tie , baggy trousers and leather jacket , but says he often wears the kilt . |
| 11 | But let me just tell you this ; self-pity will destroy you far more assuredly then Ryan could ever have done . ’ |
| 12 | But let me just tell you we it 's all counted , it 's all written down . |
| 13 | Erm in fact a similar effect happens , I 'll be mentioning this in the lecture but let me just mention it now . |
| 14 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 15 | Well you 've made this study and you 've written a book , Policies for Educational Accountability I think it 's called , which is just recently come out , and I 'm sure that will be a , a very worthwhile contribution , but let me just ask you a personal questions . |
| 16 | Er I will I will hand over but let me just say this that my instinct is that it a policy expressed in the way you 've you 've suggested is just superfluous because all you 're doing is describing in in a po in upper case letters , the situation as it is and that that my answer is that it would that there would be no need for such a it would be gratuitously ap it 's an unnecessary statement . |
| 17 | Forgive me I do n't want to go back that far , but , but let me just put the point you 've made to Professor Hoskins . |
| 18 | But let me just deal with labour and plant at the minute and we 'll see , we can do a similar thing . |
| 19 | If you read this end to end Ron I 'd be very grateful but let me just point out to you we 've agreed twenty eighth , if you bring it forward great . |
| 20 | Let me just , le I 'm not really a , I 'm not really a very numerate political scientist but let me just run some numbers by you to give you an idea of the escalation of the change . |
| 21 | It was a green scarf but let me quickly say that it was bereft of religious significance . |
| 22 | But let us also remember that the opposition have an obligation to stay behind the off-side line . |
| 23 | But let us also remember that Baron Cuvier , perhaps the greatest protagonist of catastrophism in its earlier form , worked on the placid , untectonised sediments of Montmartre and the environs of Paris . |
| 24 | But let us now alter the lexis somewhat and consider the following three words in association : |
| 25 | But let us now look at what the early church fathers made of this mythology . |
| 26 | I have used the word ‘ mystery ’ of the cross , but let us never forget that suffering is a mystery too . |
| 27 | Trim off icing around the base , but let it still cover the drum slightly . |
| 28 | Erm , she 's lived most of her life in the Cambridge and Northampton area but she 's spent six months down in Plymouth , and erm , her previous job before working for T N T was she actually helped set up a baby unit in a private nursery , but claimed she only prefers other people 's children . |
| 29 | But remember they only teach the spelling of the word , not an understanding of its meaning . |
| 30 | The promotion is now coming to an end , but to qualify you just needed to produce till receipts for any eight loaves of Hovis 800g . |