Example sentences of "but [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bristol did n't have their strongest side out but nothing would have stopped Gloucester on saturday … skipper Ian Smith scored the last try … 38-11 … just what coach keith richardson wanted |
| 2 | But nothing could have prepared Gould for the transformation he witnessed on the journey back to Yarrundi from Maitland . |
| 3 | But I would like to add Anthony Mascolo , whose work has always inspired me . |
| 4 | But I would like to ring London , if that 's all right ? ’ |
| 5 | This gives me the terrible dichotomy of knowing that during the stalking season I would dearly love to ruin the day for the fat boors crawling all over Scotland , puffing in their tweeds , but I would hate to disturb Ted and his colleagues at their job , which pays their grocery bills and is their only source of income . |
| 6 | When my edication was finished , as they do say , I was took hum , seven months larning being all that my poor parents cud afford me , but I shall have to bless God to aull etarnity for that edication . |
| 7 | But I 'd like to invade Colette 's kitchen myself this time . |
| 8 | A roof rack , he wants to borrow one for Sunday , cos Susan 's coming back look , anyway she asked me and I said no we 've never had one , I do n't think we ever had , I said I 'll ask Doreen , so I asked Doreen and she said yes we have , but I 'd have to ask Leslie first , so when Dee come back I said yes she has , but do n't say anything to her cos you might not get it , but she 's not getting that . |
| 9 | But you 'll have to ring Malcolm and tell him Geoff because he 'll be on the phone to Miriam . |
| 10 | yes I , I would suggest that I , I do n't know the particular individual who put the words together , but you would have to ask Mr the marketing director for that information |
| 11 | HER contacts book was known to be extensive , but who would have thought Cynthia Payne 's network stretched to Austin , Texas . |
| 12 | We shall be holding meetings in the new offices , but we shall continue to use Kingsgate House and other DTI buildings in the Victoria Street area . |
| 13 | Of course it will be difficult because at the moment the er the legal minimum is thirty miles an hour in , in any city , but we 'd like to see Oxford as a pilot for a twenty mile an hour speed limit which is no good if you leave the roads as they are . |
| 14 | Wednesday have a problem with David Hirst injured but they may make take Roy Wegerle ( Blackburn ) on loan . |
| 15 | She got into her car and pointed it homewards , and , unable to see who else but he would have contacted Paul Fisher 's head of department , she unexpectedly started to feel quite kindly disposed to Naylor Massingham . |
| 16 | But he would have preferred Lord Halifax to Churchill as prime minister in 1940 and even in retrospect believed that the country would have fought the war better under Halifax and that the admirals and the generals would have had a less neurotic time . |
| 17 | But it would mean abandoning Sycorax , and Kit Everard conjectured , rightly , that she would not do that . |
| 18 | The answer was lost but it must have reassured Sid , for he sounded somewhat mollified . |
| 19 | Quite what the inhabitants made of that is perhaps left buried in history but it must have impressed Ella for they were married in 1918 . |
| 20 | It might not have been her place to reveal such a suspicion , but it could help to relieve Juliette 's fears on her brother 's behalf . |