Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We even had a hot line set up between the reception at London Weekend and Number 10 , and a call did come through , but thankfully it was after we 'd done the show , when she was having a drink in the hospitality room . |
| 2 | They were all very good , but perhaps it was because all the Packs excepting the 3rd Shortfields had chosen characters from well-known books or plays or nursery-rhymes that when the 3rd Shortfields appeared in the quaint uniforms of Brownies of earlier days they won the loudest and longest applause of all . |
| 3 | So in the two things that can happen in conversation to give it To make it stop running smoothly are overlapping and interruption and like some of them are quite difficult to tell apart but usually it 's If you 're transcribing stuff it 's fairly obvious . |
| 4 | Very often it 's to try and take advantage of price deals , but also it 's because we now know there perhaps is n't the urgency to buy a holiday in February because we know there 'll be plenty around still in June or July . |
| 5 | I listen but I do n't talk about myself — I like to think because I believe in privacy , but really it 's because I 'm too proud to admit failure . |
| 6 | I work hard at dull , practical things , she thought , and so everyone thinks I must be mature and reliable and sensible ; but really it 's because I ca n't cope with the other things , the things that are frightening and dangerous . |
| 7 | Normally there was a background hum of noise , but now it was as though the entire city had come to a standstill , halted and muffled beneath a thick , enveloping blanket of fog . |
| 8 | Partly this was due to cost , but mainly it was because French cathedrals are so vast and so lofty , with high vaults of great span , that a steeple became too great an engineering hazard . |
| 9 | But today it was as though Doyle and the Woman needed to be together , even though they were not talking . |
| 10 | She had n't wanted to have people at all , but there they were and what was she to do with them ? |
| 11 | Yes , they work th if I pay was salary but there it 's and the |
| 12 | But maybe it 's because I 'm Irish , and there 's always been a lot of sadness in Irish poetry . |
| 13 | Yes but then they 're but nevertheless they could n't |
| 14 | But then it was that thoughts began to penetrate her desire-clouded mind — the realisation that , should these ribbon ties become undone , then her nightdress would fall straight to the floor — and she would be left — stark naked . |