Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I am still going to sit right at the back of the aeroplane away from you ! |
| 2 | I am going to trade up from my Hunter HB31 soon , but I am hard pressed to find a production boat in the 37–40ft ( 11–12m ) range that I would really like to buy , even given the money . |
| 3 | But I am actually trying to get at is a slight development of what you 've said . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , but I was just going to make some coffee , ’ said Ianthe . |
| 5 | But I was secretly planning to revisit Miss Havisham 's old house , alone , as a way of remembering Estella . |
| 6 | A desperate mix of pride and masochism would have kept me wallowing around until dark , but I was forcefully persuaded to call it a day . |
| 7 | The book was never published in America , but I was still called to testify at the committee hearing of the US Senate which was looking into the fate of the missing US prisoners of war . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's something he 's had for some time , but I was always going to play him despite the trouble and the fact he 's one booking away from a ban . ’ |
| 9 | I was heartbroken , but I 'm slowly coming to accept the situation . |
| 10 | Yeah , but I 'm just trying to finish this and then I 'll clear it up . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Aunty Annie , ‘ but I 'm just going to pop home for my nightie ! ’ |
| 12 | I know I should n't , but I 'm just going to pop forwards half an hour and see what 's going to be going on . |
| 13 | But I 'm just going to demonstrate to you just what happens . |
| 14 | Forgive me if I do n't ask how you feel , but I 'm just going to break every bone in your boyfriend 's body ! ’ |
| 15 | It would be a misuse of powers for a judge to say : ‘ I know Parliament has given me a discretion to vary orders in contempt appeals and make just ones , but I 'm never going to use them . |
| 16 | We 're going to get a bit of John back but I 'm never going to have a husband again . |
| 17 | There 's someone away all August but I 'm actually going to try to keep the sessions going , |
| 18 | ‘ But I 'm only going to kill him , ’ I said reasonably . |
| 19 | It 's like , but I 'm only going to get out of erm this band |
| 20 | But I 'm very loathe to attempt to force it to be something other than that which it is . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm glad I did it , but I 'm still trying to grow out the damage . |
| 22 | " Well , it 's entered in the accounts as " commission " , but I 'm still trying to find out what it was commission for . |
| 23 | Er , I thought personally that was a bit too but I 'm forever trying to organize |
| 24 | He wo n't be ready till next season , but I 'm really going to knock their eyes out with this fellow . ’ |
| 25 | Yes we know that Tim but you 're just going to have to wait until we 've all finished . |
| 26 | erm but you 're also going to know that you 're contributing to the society erm and that even if some people in the newspapers and some politicians are dismissing unemployed people and saying that they 're scroungers , that that is n't the case for you , that you are erm making a positive input into society , probably a much more positive input than a lot of those people that are critical of erm unemployed people . |
| 27 | You know , you 're sort of turning the abortion argument on it 's head , that er in an abortion you can say it 's my body , I have a right to decide , and this baby that dies is never going to be there to question that decision , but in this type of situation the baby 's going to be there and okay , you 'll get so many who will just accept their situation and wo n't question it , but you 're always going to get some , or even one who will say I want to know my origins , I want to why I was conceived this way , why I was born this way , why , I have two mothers , that maybe a surrogate mother and a natural mother ? |
| 28 | Both Seve and Irwin played badly in the third round , but you 're never going to do a good score at Lytham when it feels like three degrees below freezing and there 's a gale blowing , are you ? |
| 29 | As her cheeks paled visibly , he went on without mercy , ‘ You may have succeeded in getting your greedy little hooks into my father and my brother , but you 're never going to get them into my sister . |
| 30 | Because , what you 're going back to , just reemphasizing the point earlier , you 're speaking one-to-one , you 're not trying to convince a , a group of , of , of councillors , you 're trying to actually convey a message and , yes , you 're trying to convince , but you 're actually trying to convey a message doing one-to-one interview , across to people who know nothing about it , whereas councillors purport to know something about it . |