Example sentences of "but it be [art] [noun] i " in BNC.

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1 To me the small group of birds on the sand-spit looked just like little terns , but it is a bird I have never seen in Shetland , so I am not familiar with it .
2 But it is a relationship I respect .
3 That is perhaps unfair but it is the way I feel at present .
4 I occasionally use a quiver-tip on stillwaters , but it is an indicator I find most valuable on rivers , except at those times when the fish are being very finicky , when I will touch-leger .
5 I 've had good Christmases since but it 's a feeling I can not shed .
6 I skulked around the rails of haute couture feeling guilty for fingering fabric and scrutinising seams , but it 's a habit I ca n't break .
7 ‘ Of course they did n't say that , ’ said Nigel as if to an elderly sloth suffering from senile decay , ‘ but it 's no good me saying , ‘ Sinister , dexter , sinister , dexter , ’ because they wo n't know what I 'm talking about , will they ?
8 I know but it 's the way I did it .
9 You could have refused , of course , but it was a choice I should n't have forced you to make . ’
10 John MacEwen said he 'd follow me in his pick-up , and that the journey would probably kill him , but it was a chance I had to take , he was definitely going to die if I left him there .
11 Well , sir , I thought I had only found a cook , but it was a crew I had discovered !
12 I could not remember ever having seen one of his poems in The New Yorker , but it was a magazine I saw only occasionally in those days .
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