Example sentences of "but [verb] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But ern we 'd stay with them all Saturday afternoon . |
| 2 | I said that I could n't fault their prices , but asked what would happen if I did n't pay . |
| 3 | It 's like a divert , but diverts I 'd like to think of as separate from call forwarding , I 'll explain why in a second . |
| 4 | McLeish instantly understood the man 's nightmare but realized he could give only qualified reassurance . |
| 5 | It turned out that she did n't realise they were down , but thinks she must have pushed them into that position when dropping the ribber . |
| 6 | He acknowledges that the band have an élitist following that generally does n't buy chart records , but thinks he can expand their fan base by getting in the charts . |
| 7 | Once completed the dam will provide water and electricity for 30 million people , but building it will require the displacement of 80,000 to 100,000 people and the flooding of 37,000 hectares of land . |
| 8 | They 've set up an emergency centre , but fear they can do little to stop the devastation . |
| 9 | wonder why you — But mibbe I should thank ma |
| 10 | City of London magistrates fined him for the refusal but ruled he could keep his licence . |
| 11 | Boots have stopped selling car seats but say they will offer further information to people who 've bought the Rainbow seat . |
| 12 | They say they understand Oxfam 's difficulty with the law , but say it must apply to them . |
| 13 | could not temper itself , but needs she must bewray her outrageous lust , and in an inconvenient time of the year , despising all discommodities of the way and weather , and all danger of thieves , she betook herself headlong to her journey with such a company as no man of any honest degree would have adventured his life and his goods among them . |
| 14 | She thought his resignation was ‘ inevitable ’ but believed he could return to the Government later . |
| 15 | Police said they did not know why the gun had gone off , but believed it might have been triggered by the wind . |
| 16 | SunSoft says it has n't worked out whether Solaris for the IBM Corp/Motorola Inc PowerPC RISC will be compatible with the PowerOpen environment that IBM is developing for the CPU , but says it 'll observe all binary standards . |
| 17 | Pyramid says it is happy enough with the specifications for MIPS ' next-generation R5000 and R10000 but says it 'll wait until it sees the things before it believes the projections . |
| 18 | Hewlett-Packard Co sees no prospect of cutting its cost of sales further , but says it will continue to work to cut operating expenses . |
| 19 | The company says it is looking at how emerging distributed computing and management technologies might be incorporated into its system , but says it will continue to use its own Remote Procedure Call mechanism for now . |
| 20 | SunSelect will push the software through Sun Microsystems Computer Corp 's distribution network initially — the parent hardware company will sell it too — but says it will build a channel of its own outlets in future . |
| 21 | SunSoft says it has n't worked out whether Solaris for the IBM Corp-Motorola Inc PowerPC RISC will be compatible with the PowerOpen environment that IBM is developing for the CPU , but says it will observe all binary standards . |
| 22 | X/Open , which has already endorsed the Network File System component of ONC seems unlikely to recognise Sun 's version of RPC at the moment — although the DCE agreement does not preclude it — but says it will ensure ‘ co-existence and interoperability ’ between the two , though it has n't figured out how it will do this yet . |
| 23 | The Banking , Insurance and Finance Union has resolved to cooperate with a scheme for voluntary redundancies but says it could take industrial action if the job losses are made compulsory . |
| 24 | Mrs Hill does n't know if it will work , but says she 'll try anything to try to save her daughter 's life . |
| 25 | Tonight , he insisted he 's NOT a hero — but says he 'd do it all again if he had to . |
| 26 | He has concentrated on writing for some years , but says he will go back into court when , and if , he finds a case that appeals to him . |
| 27 | So , we do apologize , but hope you 'll understand er , the delegate particularly , that we just can not ensure that the report has got absolutely everything in it . |
| 28 | I know that you tend to be inundated with questionnaires but hope you will agree that this is a vital area of concern and will help us find ways of reaching new ways of assisting young people in and into sport . |
| 29 | Unfortunately we have had to make some slight changes to the programme today , but hope you will like the idea of all learning something to perform for the final part of the Reunion in November . |
| 30 | I can also appreciate that not all the statistics requested necessarily will be to hand but hope you can provide as much information as possible . |