Example sentences of "but [pron] [be] [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They did n't charge me , but I 'm on police files .
2 But I 'm in Balham High Street now . ’
3 anything else other than a piano same one but you 're in clarinet pitch in B flat or you
4 But she was at Thorn House the same time as Elaine , and she must have spoken to her .
5 She thought he might have meant a New York accent , but she was from Los Angeles and would n't have tried anyway .
6 We are not in darkest prison like our brothers and sisters in the flesh , but we are under house arrest .
7 It is n't the end for Becker — he still has two more matches in the round robin format to make the semi-finals — but they 're against World No 2 Stefan Edberg and Petr Korda .
8 But they 're in Northern Ireland , places like that .
9 ‘ I did see him twice in May , but they were with group functions .
10 But he was in party mood : ‘ I work for whoever 's in government .
11 The changes of the 1990s pose an urgent challenge for the whole personnel function in planning for recruitment and retention , pay flexibility and increased employee expectations , but it is for management development specialists , within the wider personnel function , constantly to remind task-driven managers of Metzger 's words , quoted by Glascott , ‘ people breathe life into programmes ’ ( Glascott , 1990 ) .
12 But it is to Rano Raraku that the visitor should go .
13 But it is in midrange flexibility , with 130 lbs/ft of torque available from 1750 to 3750rpm , that the Aura TD is truly outstanding .
14 But it is in Lady Lazarus that the similarity between the life of suicide and the life of anorexia is at its clearest : ‘ Dying/is an art , like everything else .
15 This scriptural insistence is naturally to be found set out most clearly in the Dogmatic Constitution on Revelation , but it is in fact present in all the important documents .
16 we need four hundred er S H M load samples for but it 's in S H M bags .
17 Fulham Chairman Jimmy Hall said , ‘ It 's not VE Day — but it 's like EL Alamein . ’
18 Manager Arthur Rowe signed him for the Palace , but it was under Dick Graham that Peter reached the climax of his playing career .
19 I ca n't remember the exact circumstances but it was about West Bank leaving the district , a matter of some sensitivity at the time .
20 But it was at Gainsborough Studios , where production head Maurice Ostrer believed in making films that offered the audience ‘ good themes and good laughs ’ that filmmakers produced the most distinctive melodramas of this period , entertainments created at the opposite extreme to the realist dramas .
21 But it was to Kirk Douglas 's detriment that he was considered by the director to be a temperamental actor whom he did n't want to have to cope with on the set .
22 But it was in New Orleans , when the alcoholic fog lifted for a while , that he wrote eleven hundred pages in a four-month period ending in early 1987 .
23 No , she went on a Commonwealth tour , but it was in South Africa that she had her new success , and she stayed on there .
24 But it was in Colchester Park that I had my first lesson in conservation in microcosm , if you like .
25 You bought the toothpaste , but it was in Miss Harland 's bag .
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