Example sentences of "but [pron] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And old man Verne-Smith and his wife , he knew , lived no more than a mile away , but them he avoided out of simple antipathy . |
| 2 | Adam , among his computers , reflected on the coypu man , whose bill he had later paid , but whom he had never seen again . |
| 3 | But I I thought then he 'd had a slight stroke so to make him |
| 4 | I sometimes wish I did but I I 've never done it in the morning . |
| 5 | Er I think they genuinely believe their case , it 's not a case that I believe , but I I 've always genuinely respected them for the case they take . |
| 6 | See the weather you see was bad if you had it bad but I I kept well in health considering you know . |
| 7 | I hope you enjoyed that discussion I mean well first of all if you live in the Selby area it 's been of relevance to you and you 've managed to hear what both sides are saying but I I hope even if you do n't live in the Selby area it 's er you 've er found it as fascinating as I have to hear the pros and cons of such a complex issue . |
| 8 | But I I du n no , I see it 's not once you 're u actually up here , looking I think it 's different when you 're up here looking back as when you 're over there looking up here . |
| 9 | A number of criteria would relate to that and we we simply , it is n't appropriate I know , sir , to go into the detail of that , but I I postulate briefly certain questions . |
| 10 | But I I wrote in and I was asked to see Mr . |
| 11 | Er , but I I think actually that the nineteen weeks er in June re is largely caused of er some clearing out of cupboards on the part of Jill , prior to her maternity leave . |
| 12 | Erm I 'm not really ans answering the question but I I did n't really want to get on to that one it 's just |
| 13 | I do n't I do n't know that you need to do all this I mean , we would like ac I mean as far as I 'm concerned we would like access to this information but I I do n't particularly need some pieces of |
| 14 | Then I think er it may come up later , Mr Cunnane has identified er an error in the Selby figure , erm but I I do n't wish to change that because that was the the figure that was considered as one . |
| 15 | But I I do n't erm from the nature of Mr Justice in the Midland Bank that there 's a a well known but w what I say is that in this case er what your Lordship will be dealing with are essentially what are matters of practice for conveyancing solicitors when faced particularly with clients er making financial arrangements to enter into this and the duties of in that particular situation . |
| 16 | That , and we 've had this in the past , where I would say that people that live in Yarbury North and South probably do earn less and live in houses that probably are , do n't have as big gardens and things like that , so the natu the nature of the is that they probably do earn less money erm but I I do n't consider those to be ghettos at all . |
| 17 | It is n't a swan I thought it was but I I do n't , hello , I do n't think it is . |
| 18 | But I I do n't know , he did n't say and I was n't going to argue with him on it . |
| 19 | But I I do n't like being treated like a child ! |
| 20 | But I I do n't get many colds and it |
| 21 | But I I do n't know what it is . |
| 22 | I think that maybe you should have done much more actually , but I I have n't argued because he 's so . |
| 23 | But which one came home first ? |
| 24 | Well , as a chemist perhaps you 'll forgive me for dwelling largely on what we as chemists do , but of course it 's not only the chemists in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences who do things for schools — it 's right across the area — but each year , for example , we have a week set aside for sixth form visits , in which parties of sixth formers come to the School and we 're about to talk to them about university entrance , about what goes on in universities , but , most importantly , to show them some of the apparatus which they do n't have at school but which they 've probably heard about . |
| 25 | Now , strangely , Spalding have come up with a ball which measures 1.717 but which they call simply a 1.72 — the legal requirement regarding size , as stipulated in Clause ( b ) of Appendix III of the Rules of Golf , being only that the diameter of the ball shall be not less than 1.680 inches ( 42.67mm ) . |
| 26 | All this means that individuals feel estranged and confused by an event that has very powerful consequences in their life but which they did not witness and feel very frightened of . |
| 27 | Legislation , however , is a dangerous invention : ‘ It gave into the hands of men an instrument of great power which they needed to achieve some good , but which they have not yet learned so to control that it may not produce great evil ’ . |
| 28 | Their presence contrasts with the order which might have been expected to prevail but which they have somehow displaced . |
| 29 | I felt the most awful failure , and thought that perhaps if we could try again — since the thing was done , the point of no return passed — we might arrange things better , somehow recapture the basis of feeling we had had , which should have been a perfect foundation for a love-affair , but which we had somehow bungled and thrown away . |
| 30 | She ached inside , a sensation that had once been very familiar , but which she had deliberately suppressed over the last four years until she had almost forgotten what it had felt like . |