Example sentences of "but [conj] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I erm I was born in West Norwood , nes , wo West Norwood but where John Major took you to last night on his tour |
| 2 | ‘ Iggy Pop can be tarty onstage but if Wendy James does it , it 's tacky . |
| 3 | They may prefer short term bid speculation to long term recovery but if Mr Louis-Dreyfus has his way , they will have to settle for the latter . |
| 4 | But unless Mr Clinton sits him down and tells him what he believes in , Mr Gergen will work no miracles . |
| 5 | But after Mr Hunt assured them Allitt did not want to give evidence , the trial continued . |
| 6 | MOTHERWELL Civic Hall is a long way from Las Vegas , but when Gary Jacobs defends his Commonwealth welterweight title there tonight against Donovan Boucher , the Canadian champion , he will be aiming to take the international spotlight from old stagers like Lloyd Honeyghan and Kirkland Laing . |
| 7 | But when Lucius Titius survived his will he sold his office , exacted a price , and gave it to the person to whom in his will he wished the office or its price to be given . |
| 8 | They were all larking about but when Mr Leyland asked them to calm down Howe turned violent . |
| 9 | But when Mr Wray punched him , Youngs picked up the hammer and struck him across the cheek . |
| 10 | First she said there was no room in the car , but when Mr Sylvester said he would use the minibus her excuse was jerked from under her feet . |
| 11 | But when Mr Patterson followed them outside he was immediately attacked by Sharpe and chef Michael White , 26 , of Hebburn . |
| 12 | They say never ask for whom the bell tolls , but when Steven Ivin heard one ring out after the second world war he knew it tolled for him . |
| 13 | But when Geoff Hamilton handed me a chunk of Barnsdale to turn into a well-planted garden , I had to put my money where my mouth was . |
| 14 | Margaret McTear was refused legal aid for the case but as Mark Smith reports her legal team are now banking on winning to recoup their costs . |
| 15 | But as Kenneth Connor told me , ‘ What she actually saw was the first full frontals ever on view during the making of a British film . |
| 16 | But as Morris Zapp puts it in his poststructuralist phase , ‘ every decoding is another encoding . ’ |