Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lifting him up , the Earl replied ‘ No , son , but I am the next best thing . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Yow tell yer Dad everythink but I 'm the last to be told . ’ |
| 3 | Yes , thought Berdichev ; but I 'm the last person you expected to see up here today . |
| 4 | But you 're the first to confess . ’ |
| 5 | I , I have n't been on but you 're the first people I 've told this to , I have been out with somebody who has been on |
| 6 | Er , she 's been at the , well something I did n't know , she 's been at the depot the shortest time of all our indoor , but she 's the first one to get the first day to , percent , , so that 's good . |
| 7 | Goldsmith talks with some conviction , but she is the first to admit that she is a phoney . |
| 8 | Robert Halsband writes : ‘ Mrs. Yearsley was not the first of those whom Robert Southey called ‘ Our Uneducated Poets ’ but she was the first notable woman among them . ’ |
| 9 | But she was the first in recent memory — for Gentle the past had a way of evaporating after about ten years — who had conspired to remove everything from him in the space of half a day . |
| 10 | But we 're the first major company in Britain , so our is second to none , our experience with the contract is second to none . |
| 11 | Mr Dharman Wickremaratne , SLEJF 's Chairman , said of the award , ‘ There are nearly 70 organisations worldwide working in the field of environmental journalism and communication , but we are the first to receive the Global 500 Award , ’ |
| 12 | But we were the first metal band to have a platinum album and the first metal band to sell six million albums in the States alone . |
| 13 | Desktop Publisher certainly was n't the first newsletter to be produced using computers , many titles are word processed , nor was it the first publication to be desktop published , that honour probably goes to The Wordsmith , but we were the first newsletter to specialise on desktop publishing ! |
| 14 | Er , b , but we were the first company , back in , I think 1987 , to bring out living insurance . |
| 15 | But they 're the first people in the country to benefit from a revolutionary kind of wheelchair ; the Sapphire . |
| 16 | But they were the first people to sell a motor car in Galashiels . |
| 17 | ‘ The flights were flagrant violations of the no-fly zone but they were the first armed attacks recorded by the UN since shortly after the no-fly zone was instituted ’ last October , the State Department spokesman , Richard Boucher , said . |
| 18 | In July 1939 , a group of fifteen children from Great Engeham and Whittingham Farm School left for Palestine , but they were the last until after the war . |
| 19 | But he is the first to admit that the thought of SummerSlam ‘ 92 has set his knees a-trembling . |
| 20 | Richardson is not of course the first great English novelist , but he is the first to be interested in houses , for the characters created by his predecessor , Defoe , and his contemporary , Fielding , are too often on the move to develop much awareness of their living space . |
| 21 | PAUL STEWART is now a 2.3 million midfield player at Liverpool but he is the first to admit it needed a referee 's red card to make it all happen . |
| 22 | But he 's the first to admit you can take the man out of the army , but you ca n't take the army out of the man . |
| 23 | But he was the first step on the path to those persons and he had to get this right ! |
| 24 | He expected Bunny to stay behind , but he was the first out of the door . |
| 25 | But he was the first grown-up person who assumed I could discuss ideas . |
| 26 | John Nott was not the Foreign Secretary , and therefore not responsible for reading the international scene , but he was the next best thing . |
| 27 | Now that he had only hunters to school and exercise and Mrs Geary ( who loved the lads ) to feed him well , no question about his weight , life was kind and easier ; but he was the last to admit it and showed sympathy to nobody , least of all to Nicandra . |
| 28 | She ought to phone Arnie to let him know she was back , but he was the last person she felt like speaking to right now . |
| 29 | But it is the first possible answer that presents the immediate worry . |
| 30 | He knew it was wrong , but it is the first experience of real love and tenderness he has known in years . |