Example sentences of "[be] but " in BNC.
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| 31 | The flower-plots represent the colour that could have been but have been taken over by a dull shade of moss . |
| 32 | I suppose there must have been but I ca n't remember . |
| 33 | I ca n't say what it would 've been , you know what the outcome would 've been but it would 've been different . |
| 34 | I 've not been but they say there are . |
| 35 | It was still as mellow and welcoming as it ever had been but now the pine panelling was softly golden , gleaming with wax polish . |
| 36 | Erm maintain , to maintain contact is not as good as what it should 've been but that was fair enough . |
| 37 | Sixty seven of the pleadings bundle which are the further and better particulars this year and you can see that er looking back to page sixty six , what the plaintiffs have been asked to state was to give particulars of the change in financial position which had been outlined to Mr on the telephone and er your Lordship will see first of all that in answer eighty little A , there is a reference to er a letter of the twenty seventh of February nineteen ninety two which was a letter from the plaintiff 's solicitors to the defendant 's solicitors which , this is been incorporating in the front or ought to be in the bible , erm I do n't think it has been but there are copies if I can hand your Lordship it was missed out in error I am sorry . |
| 38 | I know I have been but I ca n't think of one at the moment |
| 39 | Yeah , basically it 's always been but it has n't been enforced for quite some time , that the clean up rate is four pounds and hour which equates to six pound an hour on a Saturday . |
| 40 | Not as high as they have been but they range from thirteen eighty five to fourteen forty . |
| 41 | ‘ I 'm as fit as I 've ever been but I 'm lacking match practice , ’ says Kirk . |
| 42 | The answer was he usually ignored them , which meant of course that some entries were obscured and the whole was not as clean as it may have been but it was certainly speedy . |
| 43 | And for those whose familiarity with the Irish composer John Field has been but a brief bumble through the simpler of his nocturnes , to hear O'Conor 's enthusiasm is to experience some of the ripple of Field 's remarkable melodic flow . |
| 44 | It could have been but you found |
| 45 | I have been but I always go home . |
| 46 | Normally , you know where your husband 's been but if the husband 's away and you go in you do n't know where he 's been do you ? |
| 47 | Oh they might been but I do n't I do n't know how long no . |
| 48 | I 'll come following you He d yeah it was odd when Frank said that cos apparently what happened , he just sort of started saying that he did n't think that Frank had really been there for him and that he was being a bit sort of selfish and stuff which I mean maybe he has been but the thing is if you know if Frank 's making this massive effort to like fit in and meet new people and stuff then |
| 49 | like it , now but it 's alright where you 've been but it belongs to someone else does n't it ? |
| 50 | should of been but they 're the wrong colour |
| 51 | No it could have been but it is n't . |
| 52 | She has n't been one of the harvesters , she 's been but a gleaner , but God has provided for her . |
| 53 | ‘ Dear lady , I am but an errand boy in the Foreign Service … ’ |
| 54 | On the accession of Henry Tudor , the Shepherd Lord , as the young Clifford was known , was given back his lands and his faithful retainer knighted at his request ; ‘ I am but a simple man , Your Majesty , and I know not how I should be styled , ’ the good servant protested . |
| 55 | Let the worst happen , I am but as I was before : I shall eat as long as I can , and sleep when I am easy . |
| 56 | Tho' I highly respect Mrs. Leapor 's character from the account you give of it , yet as she was absolutely unknown to myself , and I am but little acquainted even with her writings , I am upon this account as well as many others , entirely unfit for such an undertaking as you propose . |
| 57 | ‘ You have made me great with your love , though I am but one among the many , drifting in the common tide , rocking in the fluctuant favour of the world . |
| 58 | ‘ I am but mad north-north-west . |
| 59 | ‘ I am but companion to the lady Anne . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ Nay , my lady , I am but the offspring of a carpenter and a washerwoman , ’ Joan said bitterly , close to tears . |