Example sentences of "but [pron] [modal v] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing could more eloquently make the case than the patients Bart 's has helped with pioneering treatment , dedication and care . |
| 2 | ‘ My husband to retire … but I would probably just die if I ever did ! ’ |
| 3 | But I would much rather find Mason puzzling than feel , as I do only too often , that I know all too well what so many of his more consistently praised contemporaries are on about , in music that routinely tells me nothing I did n't know already , or would indeed prefer never to hear again . |
| 4 | But I would very very much like to er to find out er and get a picture of what is up there . |
| 5 | But I would very much hope that it wo n't be necessary for interest rates to go up any higher than necessary . ’ |
| 6 | There is still quite a lot of opposition , so I do n't think it 's , it 's a certainty , but I would certainly very much hope and believe that this is the will of God for the Church and that , that it will happen . |
| 7 | Erm , funnily enough earlier on in August , erm , I rang you up about Yugoslavia , and er , I , one of the reasons that I gave for not , the Europeans , not intervening in Yugoslavia was my fear that it might lead to the Russian military unseating Gorbachev and my , er , discard that the , the sick man of Russia , so erm , sort of parallel I , well I would n't parallel it with Yugoslavia , my argument in Yugoslavia was that we should n't intervene because we do not have primary interests with , I mean , well we clearly have general interest but we do n't have primary interest , additionally in Russia is that everybody , in the world have interest but I would definitely here say that Britain should clearly do nothing per . |
| 8 | But I 'll just well they both wanted to go to the car . |
| 9 | She says : ‘ I felt very glamorous indeed but I 'll still probably stick to making my own clothes in future . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't really know what I 'll do when I pack up , but I 'll quite probably end up with my tools back in Hartlepool . |
| 11 | But I could just about fit in going . |
| 12 | But I could no longer bear my life to be shrouded in the Guérigny grief . |
| 13 | But I could never again imagine him doing something as spontaneously crazy , as aggressively , contemptuously fate-tempting and unleashed as running out across the frozen ice , arms out , laughing . |
| 14 | But I could never really make enough . |
| 15 | So in the end I had to say I have n't got any more time to chase up after him , but I could always probably come back again later on in the year . |
| 16 | I will no longer be there , he wrote , but I will no longer be needed . |
| 17 | But I will nonetheless now you 've |
| 18 | Slachman 's stuck in traffic , but I can just about fit you in . |
| 19 | Perhaps there is still something in it , but I can no longer see it . |
| 20 | ‘ Your loyalty is very touching , ’ she forced herself to speak , ‘ thank you all for this fine gesture , but I can no longer afford to maintain a staff of servants . |
| 21 | But I can still only see through half my eye . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm sure there are , but I can quite honestly say that you 're the first one I 've been aware of , or who 's made such a marked impression on me after so short an acquaintance . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Call me if you need me in Theatre — but I 'd just as soon Tim Mayhew did it — I do n't trust myself near that bastard . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I am , ’ he said almost meekly , ‘ but I 'd just as soon not eat you out of home , when I 've brought nothing in . |
| 25 | I mean I might think of doing something like that , but I 'd never actually dare to do it … |
| 26 | ‘ But I 'd really rather not talk to you or anyone tonight . |
| 27 | But I 'd still rather talk to him myself . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I dare say , but I 'd far rather be playing snooker with a few of the boys , accompanied by a few pints of beer — preferably Devil 's Dram . |
| 29 | But I 'd far rather be at home . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah but I 'd far sooner do that than not get off to sleep at night . |