Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ye think ye 're a big man , ’ Phillis said , with a rare spite , ‘ but I saw ye greeting . |
| 2 | We 've got two officer 's for example who are leading on working the young people in the town , Youth Development Officer 's er we , the Local Government Unit has a policy team initiated work on the youth policy , and this arose out of erm a member seminar 's , September eighty nine , where er the members felt that really the Council was n't doing enough for young people , that we as a Council , not not to think about young in the way we deliver our services and it was felt that we needed to go out and talked to young people , which we did in the winter of that year , erm and find out what they wanted from us , and the res as a result of that , that , that policy , and that consultation exercise has now developed into a front line service where we have two people full time working with young people in the town and that 's on various things , graffiti project , the underpasses in the town we , which have got graffiti type I mean I know there not everybody 's cup of tea , but I mean they way . |
| 3 | Yeah but I made them non-copper so they would n't . |
| 4 | That ys well done , but I thinke you wylle bye no horse of the pryce . |
| 5 | The Agency Director said , ‘ I did n't hear that … but I wish you luck . ’ |
| 6 | He said he would marry me , but I suppose he memory of her lost Dragoon . |
| 7 | ‘ No , but I call him Prince Charming . |
| 8 | and but I think it sort of highlight , er , she might have done it unconsciously or consciously , I do n't know . |
| 9 | I suppose they do keep but you know you sort of think |
| 10 | But you guarantee them delivery . |
| 11 | And er , it took us a little time to do that but and it was alright , but , well , but she bought us doughnut in company . |
| 12 | Finally , there is one point which all of the customised companies made : personalised cosmetics may cost a little more than standard products , but they save you money because they do away with make-up mistakes . |
| 13 | And these long , then man out see , but they call them travel head lads see ? |
| 14 | it was gorgeous but Chris was saying that Tescos do one , but they call it passion cake which is the same thing |
| 15 | His enemies called for peace but he brought them death . |
| 16 | But he gave me money for my boat , and for Xury , too . |
| 17 | Rufus 's face shows nothing , but it tells me plenty . |
| 18 | he never made any thing else in his image , but he made you to be created in his image and with that there 's that status , were not just a more intelligent animal , were not just something else that God made even , but were that , that peak of his creative genius , the peak of it , the very pinnacle of it , not because of what we are , but because of the image , the pattern that he was using , his own self , created us in his image , so that gave us status but it gives us responsibility . |
| 19 | It does n't tell you anything I have n't already told you but it gives you reassurance . |
| 20 | It was soul-destroying to him but it gave him money for his wife and child . |
| 21 | But it gave me heart to see one thug get what he deserves . |
| 22 | But it gave me satisfaction and comforted me for much that was otherwise missing from my life . |