Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one but me knows he is smiling because his mouth does not move . |
| 2 | Him too , but I eludes me . |
| 3 | Well I says I 'm very sorry but I says it 's six miles away in a store , we do n't attend stores in the evening , I 've nobody to come d I 've got Where the hell do you think I 'm going to sleep tonight ? |
| 4 | ‘ You both have that golden skin , but yours makes one think of lovely geometrical planes , you 're all bone , she 's got bone too , but what one sees most is contour and colour — no , you are not remotely the same type , she could never be painted by a Modigliani or a Loulou , or a Piero for that matter , she is something between a Titian and a Gainsborough . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But you eats my fwuits . |
| 6 | IBM Corp 's quest for a new chief executive appears to be narrowing , but you pays your money and you takes your choice when it comes to drawing up a list of front-runners — US PC Week reckons that the company will go for a chairman from outside and suggests Paul Stern and Perot Systems Corp chairman Morton Meyerson as the front-runners , with an internal chief executive , putting its money on Ellen Hancock and Bernard Puckett , but the Reuter shortlist is quite different , and has Lawrence Bossidy , chairman of Allied-Signal Corp out front , saying he has visited Armonk at least three or four times , Paul Stern is in there again , and John Sculley is back in the picture , with one source quoted as saying ‘ The rumour is that Sculley is acting quite disinterested , but his travel plans include going to the East Coast quite a bit ; ’ Reuter 's other possible contender is Michael Armstrong , who left only last year . |
| 7 | It would be possible , temporarily , to laugh at the wife being landed in trouble by the monk after her meretricious bargain with him , but she extricates herself from this problem in true fabliau manner . |
| 8 | But she admits her first experience of birth has n't put her off — she 's just glad they live so close to the hospital otherwise she 'd probably have given birth in the car ! |
| 9 | She lost the fingers of one hand in the accident but she admits it could have been a lot worse . |
| 10 | With her first baby , Faith tended to cook and purée fresh food but she admits there is n't always time to do this now . |
| 11 | But she admits there was room for rationalization in other areas ; ‘ at first clothes were never costed properly ; in fact we may have been underpricing ’ , she explained , ‘ but for Laura the most important thing was that everyone was working happily together ’ . |
| 12 | Her lifelong mission has been to counter fundamentalist hypocrisy in any form , but she admits she 'd now like to resolve the conflict with her mother . |
| 13 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 14 | But she asks who is going to believe her , when he is an Egyptian and she is a foreigner ? ’ |
| 15 | Because she has this afternoon job , she must get through her own work in the mornings ; but she gets her work done in the mornings in order to create time for a job . |
| 16 | But she gets her legacy , erm , in order to be able to show that she does n't need it . |
| 17 | But she likes everybody weight on her though finger . |
| 18 | I have one or two which I watch faithfully , but she likes them all . |
| 19 | There 's a girl my elder brother wants to marry , and my family want it , too , but she likes me better , and I like her , and her parents wo n't force her . |
| 20 | I do n't know but she likes his name . |
| 21 | I think I must be like my mother , she is always letting herself be interviewed , my father says its vulgar , but she likes it , she likes people coming to ask her questions about herself and how she makes coffee and who she his to dinner and what kind of paper she writes on , she says it makes her feel as though she really has got somewhere in her life . |
| 22 | I think they 've tried to send her out several times but she likes it there so she 's managed to discover fresh symptoms and stay on longer . |
| 23 | My mother never sees the ghost in Box 5 , but she hears him ! |
| 24 | but she thinks there could be a lot of improvement around college like the mobiles they could be in better condition . |
| 25 | Erm but she thinks she 's made |
| 26 | She know women in the show are called the beach blonde bimbos , but she thinks she will have fun with her character . |
| 27 | But she thinks me Mum 's one of the nieces whose a tart and an alcoholic . |
| 28 | But she fears her company is an exception . |
| 29 | But she feels there 's nothing you actually can do to help me with ! |
| 30 | We are delighted that is willing to stand again for election as Hon. Treasurer , but she feels it would be in the Society 's interest to have an Assistant Treasurer who would become familiar with our accounting methods and be able to take over should be away for a short period . |