Example sentences of "but [pron] are [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But you are someone , ’ Ellie protested . |
| 2 | It 's all very well keeping mentally flexible and all the rest of the who-har , but if you , er , my , my mother stopped and said to her many years ago , she said , you do n't look your age , you do n't act your age , you do n't sound your age , you do n't think your age , but you are your age , and this is absolutely true , as you grow older , nothing will stop the fact that your arteries get a little harder , so that , you know , that you get raised blood pressure quite easily if your agitated and you are , for some reason you , you have to puff a lot more , I was reading about this just recently , and these are changes that take place whatever you do , you can exercise , and you can take vitamins and you can keep your weight down , but you age . |
| 3 | ‘ Sir Danvers Carew was my client , but you are my client too , and I want to know what I 'm doing . |
| 4 | ‘ But you are my family , Wallis . |
| 5 | But who are we really talking about ? |
| 6 | But who are we to criticise ? |
| 7 | But who are we dealing with ? |
| 8 | But who are they ? |
| 9 | It has to do with ‘ the people ’ ( but who are they ? ) , though often this has the sense of the vulgus , the common people , and to describe something as ‘ popular ’ may then have the ( depreciatory ) implication that it is inferior or designed to suit low tastes . |
| 10 | ‘ But who are they ? |
| 11 | A group of distinguished Manorians , but who are they and where are they now ? |
| 12 | ‘ But who are they ? |
| 13 | And they 're number one … they 're top of the pops … but who are they ? |
| 14 | Such heroic ambition reminds one of the ambition which can frequently be seen in sons of mothers who have made their children too dependent on them but who are themselves ambitious and aggressive and unconsciously see their male children as their own frustrated masculinity — in the concrete terms in which the unconscious always thinks , as their penis . |
| 15 | ‘ Excuse me , ’ said Dolly , ‘ but who are you ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ But who are you ? ’ asked Melanie . |
| 17 | ‘ But who are you ? |
| 18 | Excuse me , but who are you ? ’ |
| 19 | But who are you ? ’ he whispered . |
| 20 | ‘ I beg your pardon , but who are you ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't want to be rude , but who are you ? |
| 22 | They will call us citizens but we will be something less , perhaps I should say they do call us citizens but we are something less . ’ |
| 23 | But we are we own our phones . |
| 24 | But there are what they refer to as the ‘ problem families ’ . |
| 25 | The potential reader of a monograph on a minor artist may not find a book easily , but there are plenty of publications on Leonardo , Rembrandt or Picasso . |
| 26 | But there are plenty more . |
| 27 | But there are plenty of other second-league heroes and heroines who are available to re-enact the eternal cycles of birth and death , rise and fall , rinse and spin . |
| 28 | The air conditioning occupies the glove compartment , but there are plenty of other storage cubbyholes . |
| 29 | Her singing sounds alright but there are plenty of kids who could do that after a whirl in Stock , Aitken and Waterman 's mixmaster . |
| 30 | Prices for Koons 's work start at $65,000 ( and went up to $250,000 at the Banality show ) , but there are plenty of takers . |