Example sentences of "but [prep] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The war underlined the Unionist belief in the patriotism of the British people and their belief in the failings of the Liberals , but for themselves it merely confirmed what they knew already . |
| 2 | I can not speak for other hypnotherapists , but for myself I do not think it is a good idea . |
| 3 | ‘ I can not speak for all here , but for myself I say this . |
| 4 | ‘ I can not speak for the gods , but for myself I say this . |
| 5 | But for me you came |
| 6 | But for me you came sooner than you expected . |
| 7 | But for me I ca n't . |
| 8 | Er it was er their social evening but for me I was n't er very enjoyable . |
| 9 | But for me it was Couples 's play of the long 15th that marked him down as a most worthy champion . |
| 10 | But for me it 's been well worthwhile . |
| 11 | It ca n't have been very pleasant for the sand-martin , but for me it was a magical moment ; to possess , momentarily , such a beautiful , wild creature . |
| 12 | But for me it fails to provide an easily understandable route to the basic explanations which are lurking there wrapped up in just too much verbiage to be really accessible . |
| 13 | But for me it 's the smaller scale works that really succeed : Harle 's enjoyable arrangement of Ellington/Mills 's Caravan for example is more like an Intercity 125 than a rolling camel train , while the exoticism of Isfahan ( from the ‘ Far East Suite ’ — available on RCA Bluebird , by the way ) is all but drowned in the sweet smell of strings ; compare to Ellington 's original spicy reeds ! |
| 14 | I have a certain nostalgic respect for that kind of 1970s ' ultra-Leftist-womanist impossibilism , but for me it has two major problems . |
| 15 | But for me it 's the condition of working . |
| 16 | John took it coolly enough , but for me it was the tenderest agony , particularly at first . |
| 17 | We 're all outsiders in our way , but for me it was even worse than most . |
| 18 | ‘ Some people liked trains , but for me it was Royals . |
| 19 | Sue will be so happy , but for me it 's like the end of a long dream . |
| 20 | But for me it 's a bit like a tennis match — I get tired of turning my head from side to side listening to you . ’ |
| 21 | It was going to be used as a gardening shed for tomatoes but for me it has been the history and finding out about its past that has been the fun . |
| 22 | But for me he is good for he exercises my patience , my good disposition and my kindness . ’ |
| 23 | Could they only stand it because it was for a short unreal interval , whereas for him it was the real bit of his life , this little pocket of otherness , of ‘ unreality ’ , but for him it had been central , the power house , the full granary , the fulcrum . |
| 24 | It was a fabled street , but for him it had been forbidden territory . |
| 25 | But for himself he disliked coincidence of any sort and always sought for a logical answer . |
| 26 | It is a post that Mr Havel did not seek but for which he was the only serious candidate . |
| 27 | Those who embraced this point of view accepted Heisenberg 's uncertainty principle as wholeheartedly as anyone , but for them it was a statement , not of indeterminacy , but of ignorance . |
| 28 | And they had a strap and they used to carry all the weight on their foreheads and on , and through their necks , and they used to climb , we went up to seventeen and a half thousand feet , and they climbed up with all these bags and they cooked for us and they got river water for us and sometimes they had to walk a kilometre to the river to go and get the water and then carry it back again er with the band around their heads and so initially it seemed quite difficult to accept them doing this for you , but for them it was a job and erm it was probably the only sort of job that they could get . |
| 29 | Purity campaigners were not adverse to drawing on science but for them it was a tool to validate morality . |
| 30 | But for them it feels like such a disaster after the first phase , that they do n't know what to do about it . |