Example sentences of "but [det] [be] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not sure Hawick was right for her and I 'd have been sorry to lose her , but that 's beside the point . |
| 2 | True , it bankrupted the company , and you need a couple of sessions at the gym before you can park one , but that 's beside the point . |
| 3 | ‘ But that 's beside the point . ’ |
| 4 | Like Orcadai , he was more N'pani than Yek , and now he stared inscrutably at Alexei. ’ — But that 's beside the point . |
| 5 | But that 's beside the point . |
| 6 | But that 's beside the point . |
| 7 | I was going to bingo and I said and I said to her well we 'll go and pick Sue 's mother up and we 'll pick you up and all and she went the Empire , I went the Corn Exchange but that 's beside the point . |
| 8 | Yeah but I filled it , I 've botched it up in a couple of places but that 's beside the point , it does n't matter . |
| 9 | and it was busy , but that 's beside the point |
| 10 | But that 's beside the point . |
| 11 | No , well Pat is gay anyway , everyone know is gay but that 's beside the point . |
| 12 | ‘ Only Colebrooke on his round and others to the privy , but that 's along the passageway . ’ |
| 13 | We do n't discuss sex , but that 's about the only thing . |
| 14 | Stack provide three games on cassette with the Light Rifle but that 's about the limit of the support provided . |
| 15 | But that 's about the domestic consumption . |
| 16 | But that 's about the most I had . |
| 17 | But that 's at the local level . |
| 18 | they love Rosie and Jim , but that 's on a Monday |
| 19 | Yeah but that that is the Sunday thing that 's how I get muddled up with the date , but that 's on the same tape you see ? |
| 20 | But that 's for a mobility assistant where I go in and befriend somebody and they employ me to take them somewhere for two hours . |
| 21 | It was all quite above board — none too clean , but that 's by the way . |
| 22 | I 'll grant you were in a bad state , which was hardly surprising after all the business with losing your part and then Lesley-Jane going off with Micky — incidentally , there was less in that than you thought , but that 's by the way . |
| 23 | Okay , fair enough , it was turned over on appeal eventually erm but erm it was a bit of a miscarriage of justice being kept in prison for that period of time until it was overturned pleaded guilty to another murder but that 's by the by . |
| 24 | I mean , I love Alice — but that 's in a different way too . |
| 25 | Occasionally and inevitably they go over the top — but that 's in the nature of risk . |
| 26 | But that 's in the central record John ? |
| 27 | In the present case , for example , we have an example of a complete or " mirror " chiasmus ( as in 40.26 , discussed above ) , but that is of no significance for the relation of the lines . |
| 28 | But that is for the Mamur Zapt and not for you . |
| 29 | If you are near the right markets , you may concentrate on horticultural crops for sale , but that is beyond the scope of this book . |
| 30 | But that is by the way . |