Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be not [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | He said : ‘ There is no doubt that they have to consider the possibility of closing the fund , but his is not what they want to do . |
2 | ‘ The US Tour want me to conform , to be lily-white like Jack Nicklaus but I am not him — I am John Daly . ’ |
3 | ‘ But I am not one for settling for mid-season mediocrity — it 's all or nothing for me . |
4 | ‘ But I am not his equal . |
5 | But I am not you , and except for the shadow-elms I see little evidence of genesis from you — you are moving too fast , perhaps . |
6 | ‘ But I am not your daughter . |
7 | Her sins pursued her but I was not her judge . ’ |
8 | By the end of July , it had dried off down south , but I was n't there any more . |
9 | I was quite pretty , a neat enough lass , but I was n't anything special . ’ |
10 | It was a beautiful place with an orchard and then the tennis court , but I 'm not their sort really . |
11 | Yes , but I 'm not their father , am I. I 'm their mother . |
12 | There are some men that might let it but I 'm not one . |
13 | But I 'm not my sisters . |
14 | ‘ Kill me , but I 'm not who you 're looking for . ’ |
15 | Yeah but I 'm not I 'm like that I 'll have |
16 | But I 'm not I 'm not in the frame of mind to be saying this kid was off for a week with flu then and was off |
17 | forty pound off something and er course then Doreen gets on to the subject of Des again and all these people that do n't pay cos apparently somewhere , and I she said Portsmouth but I 'm not I ca n't really remember what she said |
18 | Yeah but I 'm not I 'm going home and put on a different pair of shoes though . |
19 | ‘ But you 're not my father . ’ |
20 | But you are not their enemy . |
21 | ‘ But you are not His Excellency 's sort at all , ’ she said seriously . |
22 | But you are not his mother , and you need to make this clear to him . |
23 | But you are not his mother , and you need to make this clear to him . |
24 | But you are n't her . |
25 | But she 's not them but she 's killing them . |
26 | But she 's not my Mum . ’ |
27 | But she 's not your teacher is she ? |
28 | Mum kept calling her ‘ sister ’ , but she was n't my sister — Annie was and I did n't want to stay there , but they went off and left me . |
29 | She was here in Malta at his bidding , but she was n't his slave . |
30 | Cis , as he sadly said , ‘ was wonderful , but she was not my mother ’ . |