Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [vb base] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could eat in the main cookhouse , but tonight they prefer their own culinary efforts . |
| 2 | Editor , — It is true , as James Owen Drife points out , that it has become at least partially acceptable for women to stereotype the worst of male behaviour and make fun of it , but somehow I find it hard to feel sorry for him . |
| 3 | But clearly they prefer their English home , because all the females here have produced beautiful bouncing babies . |
| 4 | But frankly I find it bloody embarrassing ! ’ |
| 5 | But now we want them all shared out so instead of saying one remainder two we writ it like this now . |
| 6 | But surely you know your own two-headed love-child . ’ |
| 7 | So often I wonder whether it 's my right to capitalise … on the grief of others , but then I justify my own particular thoughts by feeling that if I can contribute a little to the understanding of what others are going through , then there is a reason for doing it . ’ |
| 8 | Oh yes , aye for a year or two but then you see they all got into kind of motor cars |
| 9 | but how you do your original is up to you I mean it 's just what we ask for from reprographics and you know they do single sided |
| 10 | Room temperature is around about three hundred kelvins , but why we call it absolute is it , erm the lowest temperature one could ever get to is in fact designated as zero . |
| 11 | Yeah but again I think it all goes back to the script does n't it ? |