Example sentences of "but [noun prp] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but Megadrives do make their game their games like easy as well . |
| 2 | Whether this means that it 's full of nubiles we 've no idea , but Matt does get his vocal chords out on the single 's B-side and contributes to the chorus of the band 's cover version of the old GRAM PARSONS chestnut ‘ Hot Burrito 2 ’ . |
| 3 | That did n't happen , but Hirst did set up one of the great matches of the season — and he would have won it but for a superb Peter Schmeichel save at 3-2 . |
| 4 | But Baldersdale does have one extra visual blessing rarely seen in the Dales — water , Hury Reservoir was built a century or so ago and it stretches sinuously up a major portion of the valley . |
| 5 | Carbon tet 's main use is as a feedstock for CFC production ( and this is clearly going to dwindle away ) but ICI does sell it to the laboratory suppliers for repackaging . |
| 6 | Now Botswana could not cut itself off from South Africa during the long years of apartheid but Botswana did make clear that it opposed apartheid and voiced this very strongly and much to the annoyance often of the South African government . |
| 7 | ‘ But Edward does need me , madam my mother , ’ again interposed the prince as she paused to collect her thoughts . |
| 8 | But Paddington did find a note on the door step asking for two extra pints and things . |
| 9 | Niki objected , but Clay did win — because Niki 's car failed him . |
| 10 | there have been some fairly er minor alterations to the procedures concerning contract admin wallets er and the various client reports , er but Hugh did ask me to raise them at this meeting , er to remind people of the need to er complete client reports . |
| 11 | But Darwin did draw an explicit analogy between this teleology — of population pressure and sorting , as ensuring adaptation of plant and animal structure to changing conditions — and Malthus 's theistic teleology of superfecundity , as ensuing the energetic dispersal of ancient tribes beyond the original Asian seat of the human species . |
| 12 | Yeah , but Frank did tell me to keep it , keep quiet ! |
| 13 | But Euric did take some of the advice offered . |
| 14 | But Nigel did take the time to explain that b that basically this was the , the , the view that the new directive would take place keeping it simple . |
| 15 | It 's attractive , and it 's better , but Borland did miss out on some obvious improvements . |
| 16 | But Bret did let us into one secret . |
| 17 | But Pete did stay around , and they live together in her parents ' house with their nine-month-old baby . |
| 18 | But Mala did insist , with some steeliness , that I look at some of the data . |
| 19 | There was no sign of one , but Ace did discover a locked section of one case which , upon being broken open , proved to contain the sort of books which one certainly did n't find in the local W H Smiths . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , but Winnie does tell us the truth , does n't he , even if we do n't like it ? |
| 21 | But Sealink did admit that their numbers had fallen over the nine months from January 1 to Monday of this week , by 20,755 passengers and 9,644 cars . |
| 22 | I do n't think the boys ever did have far to go , but Weenie did have . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But Steen did phone back ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ He may not be your favourite person at the moment , but Adam did invite me and it is his home that I would be wandering about in . ’ |
| 25 | But Cynddylan does appear as an ally of the family of Pyd ( Pybba ) , father of Eowa and Penda , in Marwnad Cynddylan which declares , ‘ when the son of Pyd desired , how ready he was ’ , almost certainly meaning that Cynddylan was prepared , when the opportunity arose , to join forces with the Mercians . |
| 26 | But Huxley did envisage that selection acted on genes that had more than one effect on the form ( morphology ) of an animal , so that although the large body size would be adaptive , the extra large antlers were simply a consequence of prolonged growth . |
| 27 | Erm but Edingley did ask for our support they were writing to and they were supposed to send the top copy of the letter to our clerk . |
| 28 | But Kinnock does have a defence — two , in fact . |
| 29 | But Bobbie did think about it . |
| 30 | But Kambli did beat the previous highest made against England by an Indian , Gundappa Vishwanath 's 222 in 1981-82 . |