Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb -s] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but she gets more allowance this week cos she was supposed to give me bloody thirty five quid she owes me . |
| 2 | She has still not given up the search , but she fears some animals are exported to Ireland or to the continent . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But she says this light was on . |
| 5 | angina but she takes this spray |
| 6 | 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 … . |
| 7 | But she reckons more people would watch the ailing show if organisers banned foreign singing . |
| 8 | But she has such power , such spiritual power . |
| 9 | But she knows this place belongs to NASA , because its name is on signs . ’ |
| 10 | But she drops that kid about eight in the morning ! |
| 11 | They have got an accent this 's got one but he sounds more Lancashire than anything . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But he denies any law of evolution ; the regularity in synchronic linguistics is not a result of evolutionary continuity . |
| 15 | John Smith may of necessity have toured the prawn cocktail circuit of the City but he represents those parts of the UK deeply suspicious of its working . |
| 16 | But he knows all kinds of People over there and he 's getting me what I need . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But he has little power to compel , that is , by his person . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Almost certainly , he has a weak visual memory , and so any teaching should aim to help him to strengthen that ; but he has some difficulty with the auditory side , too . |
| 21 | But he has some news of where she might be , and he continues north in his motor car , still looking for her . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's a funny old goat , ’ the pilot said , ‘ but he has more goodness in him than the rest of the city put together . |
| 23 | But he sees such expression as running contrary to the dominant idiom and cultural meaning in which users of the language are socialised and as therefore not what the anthropologist is trying to make sense of . |
| 24 | But he sees this foundationalist as a weak-kneed sceptic , who ought in consistency to go further ; who ought , in fact , to doubt whether he understands the proposition that other minds exist , and so ought to be a solipsist . |
| 25 | No decision has been taken but he argues few countries include them , that they obscure the underlying trend and mean tightened monetary policy produces an illusory rise in monetary inflation . |
| 26 | Galthié had a solid game and is likely to develop into a fine player , but he needs more tuition . |
| 27 | But he needs more speed . |
| 28 | Business is tough at the moment , but he loves this time of year , lambing is his favourite time and he 's a really good shepherd . |
| 29 | But he dispels that notion when asked how seriously he considered a dangerous brain operation in Mexico before his family talked him out of it . |
| 30 | He accepts that law is ‘ relatively autonomous ’ of the economy , but he finds little use for the ‘ base/superstructure metaphor ’ , rejecting what he sees as Althusser 's rigid division of social formations into different ‘ instances ’ or ‘ levels ’ . |