Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be [art] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other cars were parked on the lines — it was difficult to find a space ! — but I was the driver he chose . |
| 2 | But I 'm a wage-earner myself , you know , now , ’ she said , and her thoughts travelled back to the past month , when she had eked out their very slender resources by taking out a couple of children every afternoon . |
| 3 | But I 'm no nymphet myself , ’ she said proudly . |
| 4 | ‘ You may have memories of friendship with him , but I 'm the man you want . ’ |
| 5 | But you are a teacher yourself ! |
| 6 | ‘ The two signs complement each other , but you are the twin I want , not Dana . ’ |
| 7 | but you were the person who actually worked out the , what costs would go in this document were n't you ? |
| 8 | She is always a gaijin ( a foreigner ) in a world that jealously protects its insular identity , but she is a gaijin who has penetrated Japan more deeply than most . |
| 9 | Well not all the time , nobody 's right all the time , but she is a right she is right a lot of the time Jonathan because some of them children misbehave |
| 10 | Both she and John Smith have denied suggestions that they are running mates on a ‘ dream ticket ’ , but she is the deputy he would prefer . |
| 11 | Th one person did it very well apparently but she was a person who er an older person who was n't working . |
| 12 | But they are a reality which Naipaul treats in such a way that they , too , can at times seem phantasmagorical . |
| 13 | The lady Anne looks different tonight but 't is a difference I can not fathom . |
| 14 | BELVILLE : I know , my dear , I left you in great anxiety but 't is an anxiety you have brought upon yourself , and I have not been easy ever since I parted from you . |
| 15 | Oh , I know the prince is n't a fascist , he 's got nothing but contempt for Musso ; Constanza says her father was never the man who had much faith in any trains running on time ; but he is a man who can still get favours from the regime . |
| 16 | But he is the stuff which above all others makes a great people . |
| 17 | But he is the optimist who doubled his stake in March . |
| 18 | My brother-in-law was educated in Paris but he is an idealist whose unorthodox views are not shared by myself or many of our countrymen , cut in Tran Van Hieu hastily . |
| 19 | There were times when I tried to tell him before that I was just sleeping with him because he wanted to sleep with me , but he 's a person who can get easily upset , and I did n't want to hurt him . |
| 20 | But he 's the sort who wo n't worry too much about that as long as he follows the course he believes will revitalise Liverpool . |
| 21 | But he was a man who needed to articulate his theories and here he could put them forward , embroider , reject , explore without the uncomfortable suspicion that his detective sergeant , deferentially listening , his face carefully expressionless , would be thinking , For God 's sake , what 's the old man dreaming up now ? |
| 22 | But he was a man who liked challenges and this wilful — child — for despite her boasted nearly twenty-one years , to Neil Cochrane she seemed little more — appeared to offer one . |
| 23 | ‘ It probably had a lot to do with his job but he was a fella who always had a word for you , ’ said Mr Lavery . |
| 24 | He was naked and there was no longer a burn upon his face , but he was the brother she remembered . |
| 25 | Here the trustee was the owner , but he was an owner who had been requested to hand the property over to the beneficiary . |
| 26 | But it is a part which gives me so much pain that sometimes I ca n't bear it — ca n't bear it at all . ’ |
| 27 | The fourth attribute demanded by George Corner , that of understanding , is possible for the first time in the history of civilization ; but it is a possibility which so far is available to only a small minority of specialists . |
| 28 | Since we wanted to record long , in-depth interviews , this was inevitable , but it is a difficulty which must bring caution . |
| 29 | This is a highly skilled and sensitive business , but it is a capacity which will be in increasing demand from management developers : it involves combining the skills of the counsellor with those of the management consultant . |
| 30 | There is some sense in this comment which may well explain the position of the Situationists at a particular conjunction , but it is a sense which would also explain earlier avant-garde trends in art ( if not cinema ) since , say , Futurism . |