Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be [adv] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	I 've kept touching you because I still have the greatest difficulty keeping my hands off you , but I was also doing Simon 's trick , attempting to nudge fate along .
2	My name is Karr , but I 'm not Shih Karr . ’
3	But she 's out Thursday Friday .
4	But he is not Daniel O'Donnell .
5	This man may have fought at Flodden but he is not King James .
6	" Yes I do , but it is n't Grace Rumblebow "
7	But it is perhaps David Lean 's film of Noël Coward 's Brief Encounter which lingers most forcefully in the mind .
8	Answering machine winks cheerfully , but it is only Mrs Body excusing herself from work tomorrow because of the funeral .
9	But it 's not David Koresh ?
10	I want to repeat that the line was faint but it was definately Dr Kemp on the phone and that what I wrote was as near as anyone could get to what he said .
11	You may not think of Prestwick Airport as a great landmark in rock n roll history but it was where Elvis Presley made his one and only visit to Britain .
12	But it was also de Kruif who played a very considerable role in shaping the one novel that all microbiologists recognise as their literary classic , Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis .
13	I was expecting death in a uniform , but it was just Frank McHugh , a beef-faced truck driver in a cloth cap .
14	But it was n't Hubert Molland on an errand of Christian mercy .
15	But it was not Nurse Cohen , it was Madra .
16	But it was not Mrs Hollidaye .
17	But it was not Dr Moore the psychiatrist who enabled Dr Carrington , in the easy vernacular of California , to ‘ check out ’ .
18	But it was not Mr Kinnock whose speech brought about the miraculous change of heart on unilateralism .
19	But it was not Mrs. Mounce — it was Mrs. Hennessy , the cleaning woman .
20	But it was only Mr Yeltsin 's behind-the-scenes authority which won the day for the reformers , and the respite is likely to be brief .
21	But it was now Colin Appleby 's move .

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