Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb -s] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers of media studies criticise the exclusiveness of the traditional literature canon to which students are often forced to pay lip-service in examinations but which does not engage their imagination as films do . |
| 2 | You have to start from a pain of yours and conceive of there being something like this which hurts but which does not hurt you , and also that there could be something which is like you but not you for such pains to hurt . |
| 3 | She loves fashion , she loves colour — but she does n't want anything restrictive . |
| 4 | I may be her lover but she does n't love me . |
| 5 | But she does n't love you . |
| 6 | Well perhaps she 's got nothing to say , but she does n't do anything . |
| 7 | ‘ They are Weenie 's plants , she put them in , the social worker said it would be good for her to have something to look after , give her a sense of responsibility , but she does n't do it . ’ |
| 8 | She 's got two , well , actually , one 's her sister 's but she does n't use it any more and Mum — we went to the fair . |
| 9 | ‘ But she does n't trust you any more . ’ |
| 10 | yeah , just like erm , say a Friday or Saturday night when I take the car to go home , Sarah 's worked it out that by the time she walks upstairs and into her bedroom , she normally sees me going down Upping Road , but she does n't see me , next days it 's oh where did you go ? or what happened ? , |
| 11 | Pam loves children but she does n't like them when they 're mobile , it gets on her nerves . |
| 12 | but she does n't say it very often . |
| 13 | She smacks her lips but she does n't say anything . |
| 14 | Well she 's supposed to take Melkrom but she does n't take them . |
| 15 | But she does n't take them any But |
| 16 | I am sorry Diana 's marriage has failed but she does n't know what a tragedy is . |
| 17 | I says , and er we got it all sorted out , I says , but she does n't get nothing till next Wednesday . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , she just goes for women , but she does n't mind you watching . |
| 19 | There 's a strong and well delivered geographical link ( she uses the excellent Central Television series ‘ Going Places ’ as a starting point for her second-year juniors ) , but she does n't allow her topics to develop systematically into related areas of the curriculum . |
| 20 | and I leave her money in various places , to find it , but she does n't find it |
| 21 | Karenin also tells Anna he loves her as a husband but she does n't believe he is capable of love or knows what it is either . |
| 22 | She puts her head back with a nervous , resigned sigh when you put the gun to her head but she does n't try anything as you cuff her hands behind her back . |
| 23 | She ‘ would prefer to think of different languages as having the potential to exploit differing degrees of subjectivity ’ but she does not think there is ‘ any neutral ontology or world view which is objective and can serve as a universal yardstick . |
| 24 | I feel pity for her , and a faint amusement , but she does not hold my attention . |
| 25 | She mentions Chodorow 's socialization theory of the transfer of concerns with care and responsibility from mothers to daughters , but she does not make it an integral part of her own account . |
| 26 | ‘ But she does not keep her word ? ’ |
| 27 | But she does not say it , although her anger dispels the nervousness . |
| 28 | The author is not new , but she has n't written anything for 12 years . |
| 29 | Well it 's only recently that she 's started drinking orange juice I know But she has n't liked it at all . |
| 30 | But she has n't altered her position against economic and monetary union ( EMU ) or the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) . |