Example sentences of "but [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I nivver said I could read Indian signs , but them 's some make of jeep thing . |
| 2 | erm but everyone 's financial position er suffered as a result . |
| 3 | Catherine did not speak of this matter again , but I am sure Heathcliff often thought about it . |
| 4 | Anyway that thought decided me to make for the bedroom but I was late starting and had only just reached the top of the stairs when he was half-way up with the big brown teapot held in his pelting position . |
| 5 | ‘ It sounds feeble , but I was afraid Grant might be so angry I would finally lose him . ’ |
| 6 | But I 'm that wee bit bigger — |
| 7 | If some sexually frustrated dickhead wants to waste twelve quid on this tripe that 's his problem , but I 'm sure ZZAP ! readers will have more sense . |
| 8 | ‘ But I 'm sure Ma said My what ? ’ |
| 9 | But I 'm sure Teddy will come in and do very well . ’ |
| 10 | I would n't mind being shot , but I 'm sure Raimundo would insist on raping me first . |
| 11 | They say you ca n't teach an old dog new tricks , but I 'm living proof . |
| 12 | ‘ But I 'm third generation , ’ she said . |
| 13 | But I think this is , I think that I know it w it was the arguments that went on when we were on about going dividend stamps was very interesting , I quite enjoyed them and you can you know , definitely what came out was that erm it was a bad thing because erm people , er maybe it 's good if these stamps are going to the Co-op er going to the hospitals I 'm all for it , but I 'm afraid mine I keep them to for myself and erm er I get so few these days now my Co-op 's gone but erm you know usually I go and get a bag of er , box of teabags with mine , you know and er so I use my stamps now erm . |
| 14 | There were rainbow clumps of raw colour which sizzled and suddenly coiled into snakelike forms as she approached and lifted serpentine heads to hiss at her ; there were pouring cascades of things that had appeared to be silk or velvet , but which were molten gold when she got nearer and made her remember Fael-Inis and the cascading River and the salamanders . |
| 15 | Erm they regard the inside of the body as , as pure and to , and and essentially to be kept clean , but the outside is essentially unclean , say , you could have a dirty , dirty clothes but you 're clean inside is the . |
| 16 | ‘ Look , I know it 's a dodgy topic , ’ some one remarks in Amis 's Stanley and the Women ( 1984 ) , ‘ but you are lower class , are n't you , darling ? ’ ; to which the admirably candid reply is : |
| 17 | Ten years earlier a cartoon by David Low had depicted him as rejecting an appeal for advice by Austen Chamberlain ( soon to reappear on the stage of Baldwin 's life ) and saying , ‘ But you are Foreign Secretary . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Ah but you are British tourist . ’ |
| 19 | But she is all wickedness ! |
| 20 | But she is minor character in a story that is about a future constitutional crisis between a wicked and unscrupulous politician and a dignified , noble but politically naive monarch . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm staying with a friend and it 's even more cramped than your sister 's flat , ’ he said politely , and Claudia repressed a smile ; Denzil 's flat had plenty of room , but she was glad Roman did n't want to share it with Dana . |
| 22 | But she was very health and in a couple of days , we were both fine . |
| 23 | But she was determined Madame should not be aware of either . |
| 24 | And so it was for Lt Clyde Sparky Cosper , based at Thurleigh in Befordshire , but who 's selfless bravery saved a Chilterns Town from total disaster in 1943 . |
| 25 | Good , then , but who is this man ? |
| 26 | ‘ Well , Mr. Brandt , ’ said Mrs. Jenkins , turning , ‘ I do n't know what your politics are , but we 're old trades-union people and I 'm disappointed . |
| 27 | But we 're given information that the cost is not very high . |
| 28 | ‘ But we are upper class , are n't we ? ’ |
| 29 | And we worked on this contract for two month , to try it out for him but we were thirty pound a week less , and we had over two hundred slates a day more , on the on this contract . |
| 30 | It was note perfect , but everything was one string over ! ’ |