Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb base] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I bet a few of the lads in the carriageworks were smiling . |
| 2 | I am doing my best , but I wish a few more would give a few hours of their time . , . |
| 3 | ’ I do n't nick stuff myself , but I know a few people who do . |
| 4 | Not that she supported any other party , but I gather the former deb failed to register in Westminster , where she has a Notting Hill flat . |
| 5 | but I realize the same thing , I said erm , |
| 6 | But I have no such courage . |
| 7 | Of course people need places to stay when on holiday and I 'm all for economical breaks such as caravanning , but I have a few suggestions which might help to improve the look of unsightly caravan parks . |
| 8 | ‘ But I have a few more days before Chelsea have to decide whether to buy me . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But I have a few things to do first . |
| 10 | I 'm not English , Irish nor French , but I have the same opinion as both Mr. Schwabb and Dr. O'Donohue . |
| 11 | ‘ But I think a few rats did survive . |
| 12 | When challenged about this you replied , Yes , but you have the least experience in the golf industry . |
| 13 | Oh yeah , oh there 's hundred 's of jobs want doing round here again , but you do the same ones over and over again and I think to myself what a waste of a day . |
| 14 | I do not know which gramophone company the Secretary of State works for , Mr. Speaker , but we hear the same old gramophone record every time he comes to the Dispatch Box . |
| 15 | There 's something odd there , sir , but we 've no more than a whiff of what it was . |
| 16 | ‘ Ellis 's case is strengthened , obviously , but we 've no more evidence . |
| 17 | Both decisions involve compromise , but we believe the latter approach should now be taken as it targets a sufficiently small group and does not necessitate an expensive mass screening programme . |
| 18 | But we have a little time left . |
| 19 | But we have no such things , to help our transportations ; |
| 20 | But we have the same view of comedy . |
| 21 | Reports may be brief or lengthy but they follow the same pattern . |
| 22 | Only 300,000 cereal farms would be too large to qualify for full compensation — but they farm no less than half of the EC 's cereals fields and produce almost two-thirds of its cereals crop . |
| 23 | But they mean something entirely different but they say the same words . |
| 24 | Tallis invokes Frege 's distinction between ‘ The Morning Star ’ and ‘ The Evening Star ’ , which are different expressions with different senses or meanings , as would be apparent if we tried to translate them into another language , but they have the same referent ( the planet Venus ) . |
| 25 | But they have the same source . |
| 26 | One was a hunt for witches , the other for Communists , but they involve the same function of the human mind . |
| 27 | Both Bell and Howell and Rank-Aldis make versions of this machine : bell and Howell 's is the Language Master , Rank-Aldis calls theirs a Card Reader , but they perform the same function . |
| 28 | They may disagree with each other profoundly , and compete to outdo each other relentlessly , but they share the same notion of the contest and adhere , more or less , to the same rules . |