Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ours are the hearts , but his the drums . |
| 2 | A deal with EMI beckoned , and 15-year-old singer Stinky Turner was soon going on stage in his pyjamas and bawling , ‘ You insult my intelligence but I a not a fool ! ’ to the band 's legion of admirers ( affectionately known as ‘ The Rubber Glove Firm ’ ) . |
| 3 | A deal with EMI beckoned , and 15-year-old singer Stinky Turner was soon going on stage in his pyjamas and bawling , ‘ You insult my intelligence but I a not a fool ! ’ to the band 's legion of admirers ( affectionately known as ‘ The Rubber Glove Firm ’ ) . |
| 4 | " You 'll forgive my rudeness , but I an naturally concerned for your welfare , not only because Tom Rooney requested it — and I have a great respect for Tom . |
| 5 | But I an afraid there is little chance of your defeating King Michael 's champion . " |
| 6 | You come up narrow and fresh ; but I the fruit |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yeah , but I the man |
| 9 | Well no just the oh , yes it might be on that but I the early report |
| 10 | You see a working , well of course they do get them up nowadays , but in th you were supposed t to stay in bed for at least a fortnight after the mother was born but you a lot of these mothers used to hop out of bed when the midwife had gone , and , and I mean if they 'd got two or three children and a husband coming in and they had n't got a mother or a neighbour or somebody to come in and do the cooking , i I mean she 'd just get up and get on with it herself . |
| 11 | Okay fair enough that 's the feeling but you the first bit , I 'm justifying the |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Yeah but they the sort of people that do n't . |
| 16 | wanted control on nuclear weapons , or wanted to abolish nuclear weapons but they the the Labour government did n't get in on that basis so they had to modify their and I mean as |
| 17 | But they the Prestige Sterling as it 's known over here could have been more successful . |
| 18 | Well they interest me because a lot of them are about , about the army and no , no , pretty far ranging , army , navy , but er , a lot of them about India er but he a , he certainly a criticized the er , the powers of being , you know , in the er , you know in the Boer War , the Great War and you know , and up to the thirties . |
| 19 | But he the believeth that Jesus is the son of God . |
| 20 | Goodey has not looked at it satisfactorily as far as I 'm concerned and as far as many of the scheme members are concerned , I mean he has concluded that the employers are still entitled to er do what they like with the surplus , the only thing that he recommends that they do it with the approval of the regulator himself , but he the other thing that the |
| 21 | Well , they have a fight erm they very rarely attack us , but they very frequently fight amongst themselves , and it 's usually over something that 's happened previously , but a few stupid words can just spark something that could be ignored if everything else was all right , but it an insult on top of hundreds of insults will just tip them over . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | and all that , but it the air get 's so dry , that , that , you feel it wants dampening down . |
| 26 | 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 . |