Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [adj] but [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | call it , they have got for royalty because to call the queen Betty , she 's smiling but I wonder if she feels like smiling . |
| 2 | She 's vegetarian but she eats chicken . |
| 3 | She is apprehensive but she wants to see her husband and two sons . |
| 4 | She is apprehensive but she wants to see her husband and two sons . |
| 5 | He says it 's awful but they do n't yet know the full facts . |
| 6 | I don I sir I do n't think it 's really in bad taste and I know it 's terrible but it 's it 's got ta it 's out there to prove the point and it is the only way to prove it the revealing that is erm |
| 7 | It 's terrible but I find I do exactly the same with my children now : they come in from school and everything is dropped and I say ‘ pick them up ’ and I try to stop nagging them because I remember how much I hated it . |
| 8 | It 's sad but I mean I think miles away you sort of not quite so bad , traumatic . |
| 9 | Brain of Britain — I 'm struggling with todays Sun crossword — I know it 's embarrassing but I 've only got a degree in Chemistry and we all know that chemistry students are amongst other things the partners of defenders with no brains , i.e Weatherall and Newsome . |
| 10 | I know it 's easy but I had to think of something to finish the week off with . |
| 11 | They 're saying it 's disgusting but they wan na see it . |
| 12 | It 's safe but you need to have a firm grip to cut a 13-amp flex . |
| 13 | It 's costly but we have to do that as well . |
| 14 | Oh I think er starting fr it 's harder work starting Well it 's hard work anyway th I mean sometimes er a a job that 's been polished before , it 's patchy but I mean that 's really all stripped down to You know what I mean , it 's it 's a It 's that 's all stripped down |
| 15 | ‘ You know , it 's funny but I 've never really been asked this question before . |
| 16 | I know it 's silly but I find it hard to take them seriously and really concentrate and not be distracted by the local cat cleaning himself on a window ledge or some such thing . |
| 17 | It 's regrettable but we have lost all the service records . |
| 18 | He does n't think it 's fair but it depends how the health authority spends its budget . |
| 19 | it 's basic but I mean it is a nice |
| 20 | it 's alright but you get to the bottom of those stairs and sometimes . |
| 21 | It 's wonderful but I do like the educational games preferably to the fun games |
| 22 | Well it is awful but I do n't know what you can do about it ! |
| 23 | ‘ It is frustrating but we have got to look at developing the market in a different way , ’ he says . |
| 24 | ‘ It is frustrating but I tried my best and it 's no point getting angry . ’ |
| 25 | Well it is good but you know , I prefer matches . |
| 26 | Yes there is something outside his window , however near or far and it is alive but he does n't have to be seeing it and on the other hand something is alive in the room because actually if you look at the context of that , something else is alive beside the clock 's loneliness and the blank page where my fingers move . |
| 27 | It is new but it does not seem as yet to have taken on in terms of traffic . |
| 28 | It is useful but it invites scepticism . |
| 29 | Andre says it is dangerous but you have to have respect for the sea it can be hard and punishing … |
| 30 | It is sad but I mean er alright er people have you know some of the names in Lloyds they 've had to sell everything they 've gone skint . |