Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I am a family friend , ’ he pointed out mildly . |
| 2 | Were the internal stat to ham on ( not that I have ever had this problem with the Uno internal , but I was a Girl Guide ! ) then 200 watts would not be enough to cause serious ( if any ) overheating in such a large tank . |
| 3 | I do n't know about you , but I 'm a Disney fanatic through and through . |
| 4 | ‘ I know you 'll think this is funny but I 'm a police officer . |
| 5 | ‘ But I 'm a Mystery Player ! |
| 6 | But I 'm a city girl , I was born in London and I 've lived there all my life . |
| 7 | But you 're a Brixton man what ? |
| 8 | Yeah but you 're a half negro . |
| 9 | But you 're a Birkenhead guy are you ? |
| 10 | ‘ Sure ’ the first interrogator went on ‘ but you are a career soldier trained to be at your best when things are popping — right ? |
| 11 | She added , on an inspiration , " But she is a Council employee . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ I think Esther Rantzen does a tremendous amount of good work , but she is a media star and I would hope that she will realise that people accept what she says as gospel truth . |
| 13 | Y'know , Barbra Streisand has a nose that is beyond a nose , but she was a style icon . |
| 14 | But she was a hardcore acid fan , from her backcombed sixties hair style to the sovereign earrings in her ears . |
| 15 | I do n't know whether she was ever a Brownie , but she was a Girl Guide , and I do know she 'd love to have you around if you 're mad on horses . ’ |
| 16 | And we do offer them a service , but they 're a specialist college , everybody |
| 17 | Stellenbosch Farmers may sound like some sort of village team but they are an invitation XI , most of whom have played representative cricket in South Africa or abroad . |
| 18 | Right , second baby has a P K U gene from his mum and a normal gene from his dad and he is not affected , but he is a P K U carrier , right , third baby gets a normal gene from his mum and a P K U gene from his dad and he 's the same , or she 's the same P K U carrier , but not affected , unfortunately the last baby gets a P K U gene from , from mum and a P K U gene from dad and this baby has got P K U and that is a simple , simple sort of exercise of how genetic disorders sometimes appear and sometimes do n't |
| 19 | ‘ We do not usually see him but he is a kind man . |
| 20 | Man is but a reed , the most feeble thing in nature ; but he is a thinking reed . |
| 21 | Of course y but , but he is an M S three |
| 22 | He 's intelligent but he 's a dick head |
| 23 | He 's got two industrious midfielders , Mickey Lewis and Les Phillips , Steve McLaren , he plays these lovely beautiful long balls , Glen Hoddle style , but he 's a bit injury prone , but still a good player ; but this guy , he 's got a lot of promise , and we 've just got to wait and see — a baptism of fire at West Ham tomorrow . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , it 's a wild horse , but he 's a kind boy , and animals like him , you see . |
| 25 | I was cleaning out the room there the other day and he must be training , he must be weightlifting or something up in the bedroom but he 's a health health book , a big thick health book and there 's bodies , you know , the human body |
| 26 | Mr Stanley Bettinson , footpath officer for the North Yorkshire Moors national park , said : ‘ He knew the Dales like the back of his hand but he was a field man , not a committee man , and he loved to be outside . ’ |
| 27 | But he was a kind man and took the trouble to sit with her and show her the hope in the Bible , the comfort and joy as well as the gloom . |
| 28 | Although my father was six foot two , Geoffrey Archer seemed a real giant ; he must have been six foot four and broad in proportion , but he was a kind giant , having an instinctive sympathy with small boys . |
| 29 | But he was a sailing man . |
| 30 | Meredith might not like him but he was a box office draw and bearing in mind that unfortunate incident in Windsor … . |