Example sentences of "but [conj] [pers pn] [modal v] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it was before just before we moved the offices but it 's kicking around somewhere in an envelope with my name on the front of it but where I would n't know . |
| 2 | ‘ No answer , but that they would not pay ’ , they ought not to pay . |
| 3 | A large venture capital organisation , who refused to comment on individual headhunter performance , wrote that on the whole good candidates had been put forward , but that they would not know if there had been any leaks or illegal use of information by search firms . |
| 4 | But the Lord Chancellor 's Office who oversee Swindon Crown Court , would only say that security had been reviewed , but that they would n't reveal details . |
| 5 | Men in the small discussion groups implied that they might be interested in some of these variations on straight sex , but that they would n't dare suggest them to their partners . |
| 6 | Mark , aware of the problem , records that the reaction of the chief priests and Scribes was to look for some way to get rid of Jesus , but that they could not do so at that moment because Jesus was popular with the people . |
| 7 | In these circumstances our concerns are not that community care changes are a step too far , but that they will not go far enough to produce radical change . |
| 8 | I would suggest that we can deal with these parties if they arise but that we should not hold up the negotiations with the top four . |
| 9 | I think he could have said it but that he would n't have . |
| 10 | Doing owt else but that he would n't know what he 's doing . |
| 11 | In 1897 a petition from the North-Central Province noted that the local ratemahatmaya could influence the Government Agent through his control of the information supplied to that official , but that he could not determine the outcome of court cases . |
| 12 | ‘ I told the police I would take them off in this country , but that I could n't give confirmation I would n't use them abroad . ’ |
| 13 | Yesterday things looked pretty hopeful but that it would n't take too long to get the whole thing sorted out , but I must admit things seem to be escalating and getting a lot worse now . |
| 14 | Clodumar said that the government planned to invest further in Air Nauru , but that it would not re-open diplomatic missions in Hong Kong , American Samoa , Japan , Hawaii and the Cook Islands , which had been closed under the Aroi administration for reasons of economy . |
| 15 | ‘ I would have told it at once , ’ she said ruefully , ‘ but that it would not have helped him . |
| 16 | This would mean that science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning , but that it could not predict how the universe should begin : For that , one would have to appeal to God . |
| 17 | Maxton led the opposition to this view , claiming not that the Party should disaffiliate immediately , but that it should not hesitate to do so if its freedom to advocate the Socialism in Our Time policy were limited . |
| 18 | Alex Tate , 34-year-old ship 's cook , was told by Judge Alan Simpson that the assault merited a short prison sentence but that it should not interfere with his work . |
| 19 | It was Penelope , to tell Sophia that she had suddenly been asked to go to dinner at Rupert Stonebird 's that evening , but that she would n't have time to go home and change first . |
| 20 | But although we ca n't comprehend these levels of improbability in our minds , we should n't just run away from them in terror . |
| 21 | But although she may not have been popular at work she was not evil . |
| 22 | But although I can not do so systematically at this juncture some limited anticipatory comments may be in order . |
| 23 | ‘ We are looking at voluntary redundancy , early retirement , job swaps , but if we ca n't do it by the end of the year we will have to look at compulsory redundancy . ’ |
| 24 | Just do n't send him but if we ca n't afford it then , we just do n't know what 's gon na happen do we ? |
| 25 | alright , they move it out of Switzerland but if we ca n't have it here we 'll have it in Pakistan or somewhere where they want the money ! |
| 26 | But if we can not recognise something as it stands we try to analyse it into parts that we can recognise . |
| 27 | At each moment the effect may be intensely impressive , but if we can not remember anything with precision afterwards , the music is lost again forever , and its value is therefore diminished . |
| 28 | This artificial ash cliff is perhaps one of their last strongholds have also found refuge around our fire stations , protected from tramping feet and sheltered from chemical sprays these rare plants thrive in the damp salty margins alongside the ash lagoons all this within the boundaries with just a few of the country 's coal fired power stations but the need for sea walls of other coastal stations merely intake pipes to the coaling system , another world teams this is not a plant , fan worms have flowerlike mouth parts used to filter food from the sea water other worms use just two sticky tentacles to catch food shrimps forage over closely packed sea the delicate bodies of these printed vertebrates work as tiny water pumps , pulling water in one hole and pumping it through the other here two barnacles feed in the gentle flow of water over the cooling pipes from the station Marine life quickly packs the underwater structures and is about to become too thick and sometimes affect the performance of the machinery barnacles belong to the same family as crabs and lobsters , but being in their adult life standing on their head which is fixed to the concrete they use their feet to filter the water and kick food into their mouths but if they ca n't move , how do they get there so quickly in the first place ? |
| 29 | But I 'm not gon na change , if anybody do n't , but if they ca n't accept me |
| 30 | But if they wo n't talk — or perhaps do n't even know precisely what goes on — we 've shown our hand , and got no tricks . |