Example sentences of "but [pron] [be] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employees wear dose meters like this , but no-one 's looked at their families yet . |
| 2 | An Essex Girl joke but everyone was laughing at the Carpets . |
| 3 | But I am flattered at being considered . ’ |
| 4 | But I am looking at something from the previous century . |
| 5 | It was just a very low part , there was a little shopping area just round there at the time er , a butcher 's shop and a greengrocer 's shop and a Post Office , Street was the Post Office on the corner , and then Street and Road which lead down into , Lane and just round oh just round there you see , but I was born at the last house in the Street almost at the bottom of Street . |
| 6 | But I was looking at immensity . |
| 7 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 8 | It was somewhat similar with me ; the war was on , albeit far away , and I was missing it ; patriotism and duty did enter into the picture but I was chafing at the bit like Old Dobbin who could not bear to stay away from a fire ! |
| 9 | Her auntie was in , but I was to go at any time for the telephone … |
| 10 | God Save The King , or God Save the Queen , as it is now , is stately , rhythmic You could march to it , but I was corrected at a recent meeting , to say that people do n't march to it , but you could if you wanted to . |
| 11 | Yes , I can go to the lecture , but I 'm teaching at eleven like yourself . |
| 12 | Erm and if it 's not it 's er I 'm not going to deny the fact that some people say you know this has been good for me for the last eighteen months erm I 'm er I 'm used to being self employed I 'm going to stay that way but I 'm looking at other avenues . |
| 13 | Yeah , but I 'm looking at how we 're gon na this deal through next year because |
| 14 | But I 'm wondering at what cost . |
| 15 | ‘ But I 'm studying at college to be a farmer . ’ |
| 16 | Yes ar are not that good but I 'm working at it on a sort of regional basis erm but you may have to keep me here for a very long time in order to achieve it . |
| 17 | Yes but you 're getting at a you 're going to get a lot of the baddies who 've missed it , you are getting a lot of the baddies now , |
| 18 | But you 're looking at this from an inset point of view are n't you ? |
| 19 | But you 're looking at things on the top floor where they 're not squashed — not to the same extent at any rate-so … they would look … bigger than normal … yes ? ’ |
| 20 | Or p because you ca n't take a measurement for , there is a relationship between whatever 's going on , but you 're looking at so many different functions within one actual function . |
| 21 | And I said yeah but you 're looking at them and , and you started laughing . |
| 22 | Your payments are fixed at a specific rate , but you are charged at a variable rate . |
| 23 | Everybody but you was looking at her out the window , incredible she really was |
| 24 | ‘ But you was lookin' at them books last night . ’ |
| 25 | I glance fearfully at Enid , but she is smiling at us like an indulgent mother . |
| 26 | But she was looking at me with simple , concerned inquiry . |
| 27 | But she was looking at him , the deep grey eyes blindingly furious . |
| 28 | He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression . |
| 29 | But she was looking at me as if we were long-lost friends . |
| 30 | He waited for her smile , but she was staring at the plate . |