Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay well they get they 've got lots of them to mark and they marked quickly but I Looks alright to me that . |
| 2 | She does n't understand half of what we say but she listens all the time . |
| 3 | She does n't try to be Black , but she appreciates Black culture , Black fashion . |
| 4 | Massey 's realism is implicit rather than explicit but she remains committed to what looks like a traditional and reflective , rather than revolutionary and transformational , conception of explanation . |
| 5 | Her death is inevitable , over eight long years , but she remains vital and amusing and can even joke about it . |
| 6 | Her abilities might suit her to a top job in the Civil Service , but she gets such a buzz from being in the private sector , she would hate the very idea . |
| 7 | Yeah , but she gets more allowance this week cos she was supposed to give me bloody thirty five quid she owes me . |
| 8 | Urwin recognizes that dominant ideas of good motherhood appeal to women 's fantasies , but she endorses feminist prescriptiveness about maternity when she pictures these fantasies as mainly pernicious and restricting . |
| 9 | She has still not given up the search , but she fears some animals are exported to Ireland or to the continent . |
| 10 | ‘ But she feels younger , because we 've gone on living longer , ’ said Arthur . |
| 11 | But she feels this could be overcome if managed well . |
| 12 | After lunch , Faith often goes round to see a friend or her mum , who lives nearby , but she spends one afternoon a week doing a big shop . |
| 13 | Larissa , 40 , became a teacher so that she would have more time with her children , but she spends most of her spare time in queues . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | yeah , but she charges five pound cos there must of been some little bits over |
| 16 | She knows she will always be small for her age — even now she is still under five feet — but she insists that wo n't stop her achieving her ambitions . |
| 17 | and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week |
| 18 | But she does ginger tea . |
| 19 | And er she says Jean I swear to God she says if she comes over near my door , I 've told Jim she says , I , I 'm ready for her I 'll beat her round that square and she said I 'm not like that but she says that 's just the way she says , and she hurt my kids when I sent them Easter eggs over , doing that she says , that really galled me , she says cos they were hurting my kids rather than me . |
| 20 | But she says happier now than she 's ever been . |
| 21 | But she says this light was on . |
| 22 | She 's getting on now , but she takes good notice of whatever anyone says . |
| 23 | angina but she takes this spray |
| 24 | That is bravery I tell her , but she looks uncertain . |
| 25 | But she looks troubled , unsure of herself — perhaps because her bosom is merely average , one has seen bigger . |
| 26 | ‘ Everyone says she is n't pretty , but she looks beautiful to me , ’ he smiles . |
| 27 | 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 … . |
| 28 | But she emphasizes cross-cultural similarities in women 's nurturant roles . |
| 29 | ‘ But she makes nice chocolate cake and she 's handy when the cook 's on holiday , ’ she admitted as she examined her face in the shine . |
| 30 | But she reckons more people would watch the ailing show if organisers banned foreign singing . |