Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] but [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I received a lot of abuse when I left Brookside , not ME personally but in a way just as bad . |
| 2 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |
| 3 | It lives not for itself alone but as a part of a whole . |
| 4 | I 'm ever so sorry for you both but of course I 'm ever so relieved . |
| 5 | Blue eyes had flickered over her politely but with a definite lack of interest . |
| 6 | Zoser served her politely but with an air of detachment , as if his mind was on higher things . |
| 7 | The first was the support of a large majority of the French public , not just for him personally but for his policy of self-determination . |
| 8 | The child , watching him hopefully but without understanding , shone with reflected eagerness . |
| 9 | I , I mean Dave , I 've spent quite a lot of my time slagging him off but to his face I 'm really nice . |
| 10 | There was no attempt to glamorise her visually but by words and performance she really did become that desirable lady , one who would indeed swim naked with a Greek boatman . |
| 11 | I never saw him again but to this day I wish I could take him to Ibrox and watch the Rangers with him and maybe buy him a half and half pint at one of the Govan pubs . |
| 12 | Homoeopathy did not help him either but at his third visit he commented that he did not know which came first , his sinus problem or his depression . |
| 13 | When the Soviet plan reached Mr Bush , he welcomed it politely but with undisguised dismay . |
| 14 | Sometimes I can laugh it off but inside it gets me down . |
| 15 | I am anxious that we should play an active part not only in setting it up but in ensuring that it is in operation in the United Kingdom by the end of 1992 . |
| 16 | This is a very useful source of information on QBasic and you should look at it later but for now press the ESC key to bypass it and get straight on with QBasic . |
| 17 | Encourage him to attack it enthusiastically but without losing rhythm or increasing speed . |
| 18 | Actually I 've I I I 'm I ca n't do it now but at the next the next traffic I 'm going to liven it up a bit for you . |
| 19 | And I do n't know how , what 's happened about it now but at the time he was still having to pay for it |
| 20 | The old Suk version ( Supraphon , dating from 1968 ) is not so serious an alternative as the Fontenay , who play it admirably but at times somewhat hectically . |
| 21 | The twitch broadened fractionally into what might have been a smile on anyone else but on him was just a rearrangement of composed features . |
| 22 | Now comes the most difficult part — do it again but with the ‘ throttle hold ’ switched on as the model starts to descend . |
| 23 | Echo claims to circumvent the problem of trespassing on Apple 's jealously guarded ToolBox by not needing it anywhere but on the target machine , which in this case Apple will provide . |
| 24 | The 1979 gravediggers ' strike in Liverpool , which necessitated plans ( never executed ) for mass burials at sea , shamed us all but by then it was too late to correct a runaway madness . |
| 25 | really wan na be in on anything else but except business . |