Example sentences of "but [pron] are [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But you are sending round to put everyone on his guard , just in case . |
| 2 | They all headed for the door , with that slightly stiff gait of people who are in a tearing hurry , but who are trying not to break into a run . |
| 3 | Perhaps those are things that in the best of all possible worlds we would n't want to but we are forced so to do . |
| 4 | Admittedly , the animals in the Withington mosaic are lively ; but they are running not springing ( as at Newton St. Loe ) , and are moving in one direction only . |
| 5 | but they are ending up draw , actually doing literally a capital K and then just joining it up , which is not |
| 6 | The two sentences are not ‘ equivalents ’ of each other , but they are quoted here to show that , in spite of the fact that the last mention of the particular participant being traced is by pronominal reference in the English version and by a proper noun in the Portuguese version , English still prefers to pick up the reference in the new paragraph by means of a pronoun while Portuguese prefers lexical repetition . |