Example sentences of "but [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today he was dressed as a country squire , but some things he could not disguise : the muscular build and fair hair . |
| 2 | But some things you just know will happen . |
| 3 | I 'm not saying everyone wants to shag us , but some men we 've encountered have been really patronising . |
| 4 | But some weeks I would take eight every day and feel awful all the time . ’ |
| 5 | He wanted me to handle all the money side and do the bills but some weeks I had nothing for food , nothing for bills , nothing for the children . |
| 6 | Erm it 's quite regular I know , but some years you just ca n't see it very well . |
| 7 | ‘ I know I am only 20 , but some days I feel about 30 so much has happened to me . ’ |
| 8 | Mum always made a long list of groceries she needed but some days she bought even more things because there was so much to choose from . |
| 9 | ‘ He looks better , it 's true , but some days he eats nothing at all , and other days he eats just like a healthy boy . |
| 10 | There are various former members of the BBC who believe that I was the instigator of the action against them , but unlike politicians I bear this sort of thing with a great deal of tolerance , taking what I think is a sensible view that one can not make omelettes without breaking eggs . |
| 11 | Later illustrations brought in more : they included the whole life-cycle of an insect , as the plates of butterflies and moths of Humphrys and Westwood ( 1841 , 1843–5 ) do ; in their handsome but crowded pictures we find a number of close species , on characteristic food plants , thus getting both system and ecology . |
| 12 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
| 13 | it had been badly repaired and clumsily painted , but these things I could remedy . |
| 14 | Now erm , I have n't been to a match lately , but these pictures I 've seen , there 's still all these fences around to stop people doing that . |
| 15 | but , but these fellas they come along and they have , they get in because of a policy |
| 16 | Originally some of them were painted yellow but these days they are almost always painted flame-orange . ) |
| 17 | And recently in April , when two young girls from one of the refugee camps in San Salvador were captured , we put their names across on the programme every day until they were eventually transferred from a secret prison to the Women 's prison , We regard it as a triumph to have got them into a public prison , although they are minors , and now we are demanding their release , of course we exhaust all the legal channels as well but these days we just think of it as a formality , There have been occasions when we have presented a Habeas Corpus petition to the Supreme Court of Justice and the official concerned has simply torn the paper up in front of us and told us to get out . |
| 18 | We like to entertain , but these days we would n't necessarily offer meat . |
| 19 | The people 's radio told us more real news , but these days we were too afraid to listen to Colonel Stephens . |
| 20 | There was a time when he would n't have noticed it , but these days he was a little touchy about things like that , especially as Fran was now living with a man fourteen years younger . |
| 21 | He spent his nights with Taheb , but these days he had begun to notice the glances the servants gave him , and made excuses when she wanted him to join her dinner guests . |
| 22 | But these days he 's devoting his time to his first love … music , and has been in the region to launch a series of unusual concerts . |
| 23 | I have to look after two dear little boys , but these days I can only see them growing up to behave so cruelly towards women . |
| 24 | It 's not much of a job , but these days I would n't want to get the push . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ That used to be the case , but these days I 'm a little better organised . |
| 26 | When I was young rugby was the love of my life , but these days I just manage a game of squash now and then . |
| 27 | THE STONE Roses may be thinner but these days you 've got a much fatter chance of hearing a Mock Turtles record on the radio . |
| 28 | But these days she was stepping way out of line , coming on like she had something on him , like she was something more than a two-bit secretary . |
| 29 | Six years ago , her own bewildering awareness of him , the way it had made her feel threatened , must have been obvious to him when his simple presence , a glance in her direction , the sound of his voice , had been enough to unnerve her ; but these days she answered back — and for some reason he was hell-bent on punishing her for what he believed her to be , humiliating her with constant reminders of his contempt . |
| 30 | My friend Julia McKenzie is wont to say ‘ You said you could do it when you wrote in , ’ but these days she 's more into saying : ‘ When will you learn to say no ? ’ |