Example sentences of "but [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ours are the hearts , but his the drums . |
| 2 | You come up narrow and fresh ; but I the fruit |
| 3 | Yeah , but I the man |
| 4 | Yes I I I Yeah sorry to interrupt , I mean I follow the arguments you 've used within the document but I the figure which the H H B F have attributed to vacant dwellings for example is just under two thousand five hundred . |
| 5 | Yes to Lochinver yes and that same steamer would be calling in Kinlochbervie and all the villages and this traveller for Hamiltons would be going round beforehand and you would be getting a hundred weight of sugar and tea it would be in a big tea box er er probably er er Ceylon coming from Ceylon but you the whole or you could buy a small quarter . |
| 6 | Yeah but you the thermostat on your tank is telling should be telling that that you 've got a cold tank that 's what thermostat 's for . |
| 7 | But they the Prestige Sterling as it 's known over here could have been more successful . |
| 8 | Yes it was rather it it was quite unintentional but they The winner last year , one of the teachers at the school was the secretary 's sister . |
| 9 | Yeah but they the sort of people that do n't . |
| 10 | and all that , but it the air get 's so dry , that , that , you feel it wants dampening down . |
| 11 | And the danger presumably is that the surpluses we were having our discussion and debate about earlier on , those surpluses that and I do understand why you feel the pensioners should benefit from their surplus , but it the reality is that the employers and possibly the pensioners are currently arguing amongst themselves for the benefit of those surpluses , but in fact one of the significant contributors is often the deferred pensioners |
| 12 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 13 | Legislation and case law provides the framework within which negotiation is carried forward , but it the process of bargaining and settlement-seeking with which the researchers are primarily concerned . |
| 14 | But it the hermaphrodite threatens the binarism of gender through ambiguous unity , the female transvestite of the early seventeenth century positively disrupts that same scheme by usurping the master side of the opposition . |