Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but I 've just took number five out and put it back in box , cos it tells you number five , number three |
| 2 | ‘ But I 've always got champagne in the fridge . |
| 3 | ‘ But I 've only had sex with one person , ’ you say . |
| 4 | And I 'm Sagittarius but I 've never played tennis in my life . ’ |
| 5 | I 've had indirect help through the Arts Centre and the Traverse Gallery but I 've never had funding paid to me directly in any way or prizes or anything like that . |
| 6 | I said to Mrs Beavis this morning , I said Sergeant Joe 's a hard man , but I 've still got respect for him . ’ |
| 7 | But I had meanwhile had time to think . |
| 8 | But I have never forgotten advice that my research adviser gave me the first time that I was pursuing a dead end : ‘ It is important to recognise when to quit . ’ |
| 9 | I do not know how the customs people work these things out , but I have never paid import duties on these overseas postal purchases . |
| 10 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |
| 11 | but you 've also got water masses which are being moved in which are rich in oxygen . |
| 12 | No reason is given — but you have just moved house , with a huge mortgage , and paid the deposit on a new kitchen . |
| 13 | This takes time but you have already saved time by working in stocking stitch and you are creating a work of art , are n't you ? |
| 14 | But she had already found immortality . |
| 15 | I had been there once or twice but she had never set foot in my father 's new home . |
| 16 | But she had never had confirmation of his death , as she had had of those of his parents and hers . |
| 17 | She 'd done some TV before , but she 'd just left school , and had little knowledge of the working world and MEN . |
| 18 | If you bought six cans , you got one free , but she 'd only wanted tomato anyway and that was n't part of the offer . |
| 19 | But she has deliberately made theatre a priority . |
| 20 | But she 's also got lot 's of other . |
| 21 | Ah 've seen pictures of drinkin' vessels where the only way of gettin' at the liquor is through the penis , but Ah 've never seen fellatio depicted or pictures of miniatures like this … |
| 22 | Maybe we ca n't stop that , ’ he hissed , ‘ but we 'd better make maternity a better deal for the others , or we 're going to be overrun . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But we have never made door to door collections , so we know this man has nothing to do with us , ’ she said . |
| 24 | From diversity there has come richness and innovation : but there has also come failure and lack of achievement . |
| 25 | Generations of schoolchildren have smoked furtively , behind the bikesheds , or in the cloakrooms … but they 've never had school approval … until now . |
| 26 | Then of course , then when they the kids went up , did n't know where they were going , and the parents did n't know but they found new found freedom because all the bloody kids had gone to the countryside |
| 27 | Most of their sales were originally through traditional bookshop outlets but they have increasingly developed distribution through department stores and leisure electronics stores . |
| 28 | They have created genuinely new trading opportunities , but they have also diverted trade from established patterns with Europe and the United States . |
| 29 | Our only area of difficulty was that the Christian Democrats initially argued against extending this policy to cover religious schools — but they have now given way . |
| 30 | His foundation specialised in treating women who were HIV-positive , but he had never published research into Aids . |