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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [noun sg] but " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The letter ended by wishing me luck but adding the proviso , ‘ If you , having thought about the matter very deeply , are convinced you can emotionally handle the situation . ’
2	The fans were right to give me stick but they 've been good to me and it 's great to come off to a reception like that . ’
3	But of course , people may feel very affectionate towards their parents but be unable to give them money , or indeed , be able to give them money but feel that this is not the proper thing to do .
4	Oh ’ — he jerked his big head to the side — ‘ I never open me mouth but I say something . ’
5	He did n't kiss them good-bye but he touched Carrie 's cheek and ruffled Nick 's hair .
6	he calls me Steph but sometimes he calls me Piggy . ’
7	He maybe sees a different process and and I do n't know about you Chairman but it would it would help me to see if to hear whether they they see a different process at work .
8	It might be the authorities who give you permission but when it comes to the bit it 's the ordinary policeman who 's getting shot .
9	‘ I 'm not offering you marriage but I am offering you the most senior job you could possibly aspire to . ’
10	Similarly , taking self-defence classes will not only give you confidence but could actually help if you were attacked .
11	‘ I 'd lend you mine but it looks too good on me . ’
12	‘ Well , ah do n't know aboot you lot but I 'm gangin' into the watter . ’
13	I say : wish him luck but not when they come to play us again : - ) .
14	His father 's response was not only to stop sending him money but also to bar him from returning to Zimbala until he renounced his Socialist beliefs .
15	If that was the discovery Francis had made and mentioned in his diary it might have caused him distress but it was hard to see it as providing a motive for his murder .
16	Despite John Ruskin 's strictures ( ‘ Such works as … the iron roofs and pillars of our railway stations … are not architecture at all ’ ) , it is now generally admitted that not only are they architecture but they are also works of art .
17	I wanted to give him supper but he said he would take sandwiches up to his room and get on with his work .
18	‘ Nobody is allowed to do Him mischief but me !
19	It was true that I had given him life but I had not given him love .
20	He sued to love the sun and it seemed to give him life but now as they drag his limp body into the sun they realise that nothing will wake him , not even the sun .
21	The crowd gave him cover but gave it to Agnes too .
22	The death of his beloved grandfather had brought him misery but , at the same time , it had also given him strength .
23	The superintendent thanked him for his help and bade him goodnight but with a distracted air as though her attention were elsewhere .
24	The monsters tried to give me food but I did n't care about eating .
25	Well , they 'd called it embezzlement but it was only taking what was his by right .
26	So the main reason , that 's just sorry it 's a long way of getting to it sir but , the main change in circumstance that the county is putting forward since nineteen eighty compared with today is that agricultural policy means that more farmland is being diversified and they feel the need at county level to have a sweep-up policy to control that process .
27	I 'll give it height but I would n't buy it .
28	‘ I hit her with me bag but we 're friends now , Mum .
29	he never made any thing else in his image , but he made you to be created in his image and with that there 's that status , were not just a more intelligent animal , were not just something else that God made even , but were that , that peak of his creative genius , the peak of it , the very pinnacle of it , not because of what we are , but because of the image , the pattern that he was using , his own self , created us in his image , so that gave us status but it gives us responsibility .