Example sentences of "but [adv] [pers pn] [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Adrian Hop there 's nothing that can ease the pain of the loss of his daughter but perhaps he says she wo n't have died in vain . |
| 2 | ‘ But perhaps she needs us , ’ Matthew replied , surprisingly quickly for him . |
| 3 | At first she sympathised a bit , but basically she thinks it 's because I dare to walk around and look people in the eye — I 'm too challenging or flirty or something . |
| 4 | Or perhaps no one can understand anyone : each blackbird believes that he has put into his whistle a meaning fundamental for him , but only he understands it ; the other gives him a reply that had no connection with what he said ; it is a dialogue between the deaf , a conversation without head or tail . |
| 5 | But still he says he would not be married or sober without the incident . |
| 6 | Not only does this result confirm that the rhythm we measure under normal circumstances ( in fig. 1.1 , for example ) has an external as well as an internal cause but also it enables us to compare their size . |
| 7 | Sometimes this means they have more room for wheel toys , but often it gives them a chance to make their own den to hide away in with a favourite toy . |
| 8 | But now it pays you to be a White man . |
| 9 | He says that at first he wanted to kill those responsible , but now he realises they 'll suffer enough by losing their freedom . |
| 10 | I 've only been there once and I thought he did n't like me much , but now he wants me to do a dozen PDs tomorrow . ’ |
| 11 | I do hope it 's not the bitterness of someone who is n't logical , but sometimes it makes me emotional . |
| 12 | he calls me Steph but sometimes he calls me Piggy . ’ |
| 13 | She had done all the house out and got all the presents and everything , but then they says I could n't have him or see him . |
| 14 | if Derek and he went away last weekend he perhaps stuffed it in here but then he drops it in when he finds it |
| 15 | But then he has it , he 's off and running , he 's merging and purging that database with frantic abandon . |
| 16 | Yeah , but then it saves you getting all the bits and |
| 17 | But then she says it 's stopping her getting Carl down . |
| 18 | And I do n't go out that much , but then she wears them to the garage , to work ! |
| 19 | But upstairs he presses it in as well , and I , I 'm not hearing |
| 20 | He denies that there is a single professional-managerial class ( or as he calls it the service class ) , but instead he sees it as being split in two . |