Example sentences of "but [pers pn] are [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you are under no obligation to do so . |
| 2 | But you are under the protection of the master , who provides food and shelter , protection and care for you . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't expect he liked it , darling , but you are on holiday , and though it was very naughty of that boy to risk ringing you from a ward , you can scarcely be held responsible . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But you are on the stage — what do they think of that ? ’ |
| 5 | It does have a meaning ( we think ) , but you are in the depths of the rain forest ! |
| 6 | But you are in the wrong car , in front of the wrong garage , waiting outside the wrong house . |
| 7 | But you are in quite a good position now . |
| 8 | ‘ Your offer is very generous , cousin , but you are in no way to blame for what has happened . |
| 9 | I give you ten years , sir , ’ he said to Havvie , ‘ but you are in bad condition , I see , so sweeten your language in future , or it will be the worse for you . ’ |
| 10 | You are undoubtedly a good administrator , but you are in danger of allowing your judgement to become warped by your obvious dislike of Agent Red Sixteen . |
| 11 | This storm has killed the oaks , but you are in a warm place , where the leaves are green . |
| 12 | But you are in you ca n't recall . |
| 13 | ‘ I wish it were true that the fund will continue to grow , but we are at the mercy of the markets , and we must keep a healthy capital amount for all needy old soldiers down on their luck . |
| 14 | No one , of course , would want to compare the first week of school term with the outbreak of a world war , but we are at the beginning of a New Year and a gateway to the future . |
| 15 | But we are at liberty to form our own judgement of the person doing so . |
| 16 | We have some patterns of expectation available to us , indeed , but we are at the mercy of the poet for which of those patterns may lie ahead of us . |
| 17 | These have taken somewhat longer than we anticipated but we are at last making good progress towards agreeing prices for the Eurojet contract and we are expecting to receive more acceptable price quotations from Eurofighter very shortly for their part of the work . |
| 18 | We a , but we are on a regular day er |
| 19 | When we have cares , we are not to look to pagan religious practices and philosophies for respite , but we are to be as the Apostle Peter put it ‘ Casting all your care upon him , for he careth for you . ’ |
| 20 | The plot centres around an aristocratic sportsman who in turn becomes the subject of a manhunt : he is alone against the world , but we are with him through every breathless paragraph . |
| 21 | We are not in darkest prison like our brothers and sisters in the flesh , but we are under house arrest . |
| 22 | We are not anxious to sell the company , but we are in discussion with a variety of people about co-operation and prospective linkages of various sorts . ’ |
| 23 | But we are in no doubt that , if the electorate fails to pardon the Conservatives at the polls today , it will pay a price at the hands of a Labour government , perhaps sustained by the Liberal Democrats , which will set back this country a generation . |
| 24 | Here we are not in the realm of childhood behaviour but we are in the realm of play . |
| 25 | ‘ But we are in Manitoba , ’ Mercer could be heard saying in a lull , ‘ they 've got that right . |
| 26 | Ibrox manager Walter Smith said : ‘ We are still without injured Gary Stevens and suspended Ian Ferguson , but we are in a good position with our squad . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's upsetting , but we are in the right and they are in the wrong . ’ |
| 28 | But we are in no hurry , and even slow deliberately to take in the moment . |
| 29 | I do n't really want to have to do too many commit myself till the ammunition 's here , but we are in fact , actually er , addressing this very specific issue . |
| 30 | ‘ But we are in the eye of a gathering storm . |