Example sentences of "but [conj] [pers pn] be [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dark though it was , I had no doubt but that it was Victor Frankenstein ; the darkness surrounding his present movements was so characteristic of him . |
| 2 | But if I were Ben Hogan , and a Bob Hamilton or Willie Goggin chipped in to beat me in The Masters , a Walter Burkemo holed a sand shot to swipe the PGA , a raw rookie — pick one — holed a 7-iron to beat me somewhere in Florida and then the like of a Bud Holscher or a Shelley Mayfield holed yet another sand shot to steal yet another victory , then I 'd not only be scouring the Fort Worth Yellow Pages looking for the nearest shrink , I might even think of tossing myself under a freight train in the nearest marshalling yard . |
| 3 | ‘ But if you were Penelope Huntley you might not have been consoled by the thought that your children would inherit after Miss Morgan 's death . ’ |
| 4 | For example , in the story above , Mrs Glen may have jumped to the wrong conclusion but if you were Mrs Glen how would YOU feel if you were tired , your lesson had been disrupted by exams in the hall next door , several people in the class were being awkward , you get interrupted by an unhappy violin teacher moaning about his pupils not turning up on time and then you re-enter your classroom to find someone crawling under your desk with a handful of expensive musical instrument ? ! |
| 5 | But since he is Sir Anthony 's choice he may have been harmed by the Meyer candidacy . |