Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh well might have perhaps will you have a spare day No I want to go out for a meal No , but I been home but at dinner time just . |
| 2 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 3 | I was a bigger rogue then than I am now but Benjamin was as different as chalk from cheese . |
| 4 | I certainly do n't mind but I 'm completely but at the prospect of having to face them tomorrow morning . |
| 5 | I 'm just but he needs it . |
| 6 | Wycliffe said : ‘ It 's not about Alfred that I 'm here but another matter altogether . |
| 7 | I 'm here but in his club . |
| 8 | Do you know that creepy feeling when you 're sure someone 's there but you ca n't see or hear anything ? ’ |
| 9 | Last weekend I was away but this one I 'm as free as air . |
| 10 | I felt I was right but my stock was low on this establishment . |
| 11 | He could see that I was slowly but surely getting back to my old self , and to my own poetry . |
| 12 | And I was really wrecked and I was I was n't even actually ill I just sat , well I was eventually but I sat on this wall for about four hours , yeah |
| 13 | ‘ I was here but … ’ |
| 14 | And he 's been there now about three years and they 're just surviving , and he 's says , I 'm earning roughly what I was here but I 'm working literally twice the hours . |
| 15 | Well I was here but I came during break time . |
| 16 | I 've stayed the same as I was before but now it 's all right to be what I was before . |
| 17 | Er that was when I was there but now it 's pumped ashore with well by hose from the ship you know and er they put water in about once or twice a year . |
| 18 | And I never had any problem at all when I was there but some of the keepers had . |
| 19 | And when I took those I did n't come down for a , and that frightened me , I said to Russell I will never ever take speed because it 's if , I was er we were in the pub right on a Sunday morning and I was there but I was n't there , I was somewhere else . |
| 20 | It was nice to know he felt good about her being here but she wanted more than that — but how selfish of her to expect any more . |
| 21 | The Cuban Communists , who for the first six months of 1959 had made policy proclamations which were cautiously but unequivocally more radical than Castro 's , subsequently found that they were fast being outstripped by him in the proposal of anti-capitalist measures . |
| 22 | This gives the manufacturer some immunity from interbrand competition and , as a first-order effect , increases the manufacturer 's margin , which is privately but not socially desirable . |
| 23 | The Italian Federation is fighting a rearguard battle against this trend , which is slowly but surely killing Italian rugby . |
| 24 | That did n't help the Black Destroyer , certainly , but it died because I made a mistake , and my power is so strong that when it goes wrong , which is seldom but not never , even those things I have invested with great protective power become vulnerable . |
| 25 | They soon learned that an internally consistent paper with logical relationships to what had gone before stood a better chance of acceptance than something which was right but new : civil servants after all knew little about the industry and had little basis on which to judge proposals except consistency with what had gone before . |
| 26 | We went with the sixth formers las last summer we went to see The Tempest and it 's such a beautiful place you know , it 's you 're outdoors but it 's quite weird the way they do it , because you 're like in a canopy but the actual stage it outdoors , so you 're covered but you get a bit cold and you need to take woollies and things , it can get a bit cold out there , but it should be nice in the summer . |
| 27 | Fine if you 're right-handed but then , not everyone is . |
| 28 | ‘ Perhaps you 're right but there are not many who would shift the blame on to a brother 's shoulders . |
| 29 | She 's alright once you 're there but if yo i mm mm if she does n't like then that 's it ! |
| 30 | Well , sometime Wednesday you go , you really go through it cos you you 're not you 're not halfway through but you 're still but you 've done quite a bit . |