Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb base] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Denis he may be but I fancy the measures being poured in the big rooms have been even more liberal ( small ‘ l ’ , of course ) than before . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , I am now a German citizen but I remain a Russian , all ups and downs . |
| 3 | But I use a lot meself . |
| 4 | But I use a paint scraper . |
| 5 | The intertidal zone is sometimes referred to as the littoral zone , but I use the term eulittoral . |
| 6 | There are fairy rings of eight-inch-diameter horse-mushrooms and of shaggy parasols ( no good for eating raw , but I pick a bagful for later . ) |
| 7 | The phrase ‘ the holism of the mental ’ is used in a number of ways ; but I hope the reader now understands what I intend by it . |
| 8 | I am grateful to them , but I hope the subject can now be dropped . |
| 9 | I think printing Hartley Peavey 's letter in the same issue as mine was maybe a bit of a gaffe — but I hope the local amp repairer does n't have a slip of the brain when he fixes your amp , or your local mechanic does n't connect up your battery in the car properly . |
| 10 | it sounds like a Trivial Pursuits question , but I hope the analogy ends there ! |
| 11 | But I hope the articles in this issue of the magazine will say to you , as they do to me : you can fool some people some of the time , but you ca n't fool most people for ever . |
| 12 | It is all good vote-winning stuff , but I hope the electorate will not be fooled by it ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But I walk a fine line of ambiguity because I 'm also reaching a straight audience who need the education much more than the gay audience . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , I drive all right but I prefer a motor bicycle . |
| 15 | But I prefer the stage really . |
| 16 | ‘ When our two wee ones came along , we had to have the ixtra room , but I prefer the old part of the house . |
| 17 | But I prefer the ones from albums that were artistically superior . ’ |
| 18 | Now I 'm not I like I like the thought of but I prefer the thought of in work and how people can work together using this type of thing and think about it in the context of work rather than in the context that it talks about erm and it 'll be interesting to talk to you tomorrow so if to see what you think have the think about the things we 've talked about . |
| 19 | Oh I , I like them but I prefer the crisp ones . |
| 20 | But I write a tolerable hand in English . |
| 21 | ‘ Now I work mainly in America , ’ says the cube-shaped superstar , ‘ but I bring a lot of money into the UK . |
| 22 | ‘ Now I work mainly in America , ’ says the cube-shaped superstar , ‘ but I bring a lot of money into the UK . |
| 23 | Now I I 've chosen an example w with a Conservative Secretary of State and the Labour majority , but I ask the Noble Lords on all , in all parts of the House to think it could work the other way round , because a Labour Secretary of State could exercise exactly these powers in an area where with a er Conservative majority on on er on on the local council or councils and I ask the House to think of this , not in a party er as a as a party issue between Labour , Conservative or Liberal Democrat , I just ask you to consider whether it is right for a Secretary of State of any political persuasion to er secure by appointment to a police authority a political control from the centre of that police authority , because that is what the Government 's presents proposals would still achieve and er it is our view and it is the view of which is which is finds expression in Amendments five , eight and eleven that the we should return to the tripartite system of p of policing which policing is a partnership between the Chief Constable er the local authority in the area and the Home Secretary , that er tripartite arrangement has worked extremely well for thirty years , there have been minor conflicts in some parts of the country , but nothing to justify the wholesale removal of of of the partnership which is now proposed . |
| 24 | In Falstaff , yes ; but I remember a Die Meistersinger that was simply appalling , and a Die Zauberflöte … |
| 25 | CALL ME old , call me antiquated , but I remember a time when The Railway Children were , if not quite press darlings , then at least going on the occasional date with the media . |
| 26 | ‘ No war would ever reach this part of the world , ’ said Robins , ‘ but I remember the last in Europe . |
| 27 | I had not seen the upstairs rooms since they were finished , but I remember the job they had with the bathroom , and with this . ’ |
| 28 | But I remember the Head of Network Production , Stuart Wyton , saying confidentially to me : " We ca n't give it to you , Bruce — you 're too identified with TWW . " |
| 29 | But I remember the excitement in my children 's faces . |
| 30 | And at the court I can remember this as a kid , at the court , of course I was n't in at at the court but I remember the story the blacklegs er picked out people and said they and they and they threw stones you see , through the window . |