Example sentences of "but [pron] 's [adv] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's really pleased to see us , thought Margaret Seymour-Strachey , but she 's too proud to show it , poor old thing . |
| 2 | But she 's too frightened to go back home . |
| 3 | Well actually I feel a lot happier if you say that , because can I actually one of the first questions you asked , which I never got a chance to answer , though Terry did , was which what sort of criteria one would use to say that a Prime Minister 's good and erm I was sort of thinking of that as Terry was answering and I think the thing I came up with is you want somebody who represents , or is sensitive to at least , a very wide swathe of views across the population , but also someone who 's intelligent and caring enough to take into account the minority views , and you want somebody who 's aim is to make most of the people happy most of the time , sort of thing , erm but who 's also prepared to take unpopular steps erm if he believes it 's necessary . |
| 4 | The toy section in this Oxfam shop in Oxford used to be a honeypot for children , but there 's not much to choose from in it now . |
| 5 | There 'll be a photograph but there 's not much doubt about the winner . |
| 6 | Well the ordinary private hire , there 's so many of them , I mean his dad had been doing it for years but there 's so many started up . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm so flattered you want to discover more about me , but there 's disappointingly little to discover , ’ she managed , with an artificially sweet smile , ‘ And rest assured I do n't feel in the least threatened . |
| 8 | I shut my eyes and try to go to sleep , but there 's too much going on to sleep . |
| 9 | THE ANGUISH OF DEFEAT ENGLAND 'S World Cup exit was a sad occasion for Gazza but he 's desperately keen to pull on that old white shirt again . |
| 10 | He 's not no he 's not gen he 's not , I would n't call him genuine but he 's not two faced , if he does n't like you he tells you it does n't he ? |
| 11 | I suspect Sir George Bailey at Seal Court may have something but he 's not willing to let anyone look . |
| 12 | Pincher says there are several people who fit Scott 's description , but he 's not prepared to speculate . |
| 13 | Rowland 's quick to understate his own importance as a guitarist , but he 's not prepared to attribute the host of apparent Howard derivatives entirely to synchronicity . |
| 14 | But he 's not prepared to compromise on what he regards as a moral issue . |
| 15 | ‘ Finn is a fiend , ’ she said , ‘ but he 's quite easy to cope with once you 've accepted that . |
| 16 | but he 's quite bright eyed . |
| 17 | No , I do n't think , but he 's quite old fashioned , he might . |
| 18 | Frankly she goes , she goes yeah he 's alright she said but he 's too two faced and I said that does n't sound like him , I said I thought he was quite nice and she goes yeah well he is she says he says one thing to you and then you find out that he 's said something completely different and you hear another side of it . |
| 19 | Compulsion was mentioned by Councillor but he 's too young to remember that compulsion was tried in 1960 |
| 20 | He used to be a professional sailor before an accident meant he lost the use of his legs , but he 's still able to pursue the sport he loves . |
| 21 | I keep reminding myself that this was a film , a work of art , a dramatic illusion , but it 's not easy to detach yourself from a film , as you can from a play . ’ |
| 22 | But I think you 've done very well , with just one little weak area round that but but it 's not easy to do , you 've got a very light background and you 've got a very dar presumably black body of the camera |
| 23 | To change from Mozart to Shostakovich in seven or eight hours , travelling to different country to do so — it is n't absolutely needed , but it 's not easy to understand that it 's not needed . |
| 24 | Obviously I can go to the US or China to see mining practices there if I choose to , but it 's not easy to get away . |
| 25 | But it 's not all play for Jon , because he now has to drag himself off the podiums to do the warm-up spot behind the decks . |
| 26 | ‘ But it 's not decent to go to war over something like this , ’ I screamed , thumping my fist on the table so that the cups on the dresser rattled . |
| 27 | But it 's not wise to exercise so violently in such heat . ’ |
| 28 | Over the hols I learned a gossipy thing or two from my brother in law who deals with some Leeds United staff in the course of his work at a certain Leeds City Centre bank ( not saying which one but it 's not hard to guess ) . |
| 29 | That sounds a lot of money , but it 's not difficult to spend it on an airline . |
| 30 | But it 's not okay to walk up the same street and see somebody using something else , obviously . |