Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Nana 's opinion this was not only a common occupation which gave a woman vulgar , loud manners but it was also bad for trade . |
| 2 | Obviously there has to be guidelines but we find cycling very compatible with quiet enjoyment of the forest . |
| 3 | It is difficult to give precise guidelines but it is now our practice to recommend that oral iron be given until the haemoglobion concentrations and red cell counts are normal , and that these are remeasured at about three monthly intervals for a year and further iron given as necessary . |
| 4 | He says ; After the farewell tour I concentrated on acting and my future and I did not want to sing Dr Hook 's songs but I now understand people will want me too . |
| 5 | I mean no was ringing in my ears but I could n't say that . |
| 6 | I could n't believe my ears but she repeated it : I realized I had not properly understood my own needs . |
| 7 | It led to some job losses but it was justified in the company 's longer-term interests — and therefore the interests of the majority of employees . |
| 8 | She could not communicate with their static sky-fires but she watched/felt/learned of the realities of Spiderglass on the Earth of a century before , back when industry meant manufacture or service and did n't encompass its environments or political power . |
| 9 | Curle , who started at Bristol Rovers , said : ‘ It 's easy to be intimidated by the Rovers fans but we 're not afraid . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It might not be popular with the fans but we 've got to do that to keep our noses in front . |
| 11 | ‘ It would be easy to spend heavily to appease fans but we wo n't do that . |
| 12 | Da Silva said he had tried to reason with the fans but they had drawn guns . |
| 13 | They used to be Bangor fans but I think I have won them over to Glentoran . ’ |
| 14 | There are occasional references to fullers during the 13th and 14th centuries but theirs must have been a small scale operation compared to that encountered further downstream around Cirencester . |
| 15 | ‘ I feel local justice has been dispensed very successfully over the centuries but we are now increasingly facing the prospect , due entirely in my view to financial pressures , of seeing the closure of many local courts and everything being centralised elsewhere . |
| 16 | Writers , poets and bards had been telling the stories for centuries but it was not until the Victorians that a visual interpretation was recorded and that was essentially romantic and ill-informed . |
| 17 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 18 | Somewhere underneath the pebble lenses , tinged both grey and pink , the steel traps and the wires were , presumably , a pair of eyes but they were only , really , a flicker , in the depths of the optician 's pièce de résistance that towered above Ruthie 's nose . |
| 19 | It only has two eyes but they are divided for viewing above and below the water surface . |
| 20 | He had seen her fall with his own eyes but he doubted any other witness would have disagreed with the description . |
| 21 | She opened her eyes but he kept his arm tightly round her , his lips pressed on hers , so she could not move . |
| 22 | I thought of the children in the casbah with flies crawling on their eyes but I was afraid to mention this in case Flora thought me naive . |
| 23 | I could see through ( men 's ) eyes but I could feel with her body . |
| 24 | For a moment he refused to meet her eyes but she said his name . |
| 25 | He tipped up her chin so she had to look him in the eyes but she pulled her face away . |
| 26 | Tears again filled Joan 's eyes but she brushed them away . |
| 27 | For a moment , Donna felt tears welling up in her eyes but she fought back the pain , forced the thoughts away . |
| 28 | She might close her eyes but she could n't blot out what had happened the night before . |
| 29 | She looked at me and I thought I saw something stirring in her watery blue eyes but it was just a random current fizzing somewhere . |
| 30 | In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately . |