Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | A later article will argue that this lowering of costs does not eliminate them altogether but rather transfers them . |
| 2 | The examples in this section are Janus-like , in that the reader may interpret them metaphorically but , in the light of the examples in the previous section , it seems to me that we should interpret them as cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 3 | We did have them somewhere but I I just do n't know |
| 4 | Here , in the seemingly endless expanse of clear blue , hundreds of fish hung strangely suspended in the water , the nets that held them all but invisible . ’ |
| 5 | WHEN it comes to mounting a defence against hostile bidders , big German companies can tap an influential old-boy network which , together with legal takeover barriers , can make them all but impregnable . |
| 6 | Evelyn looked across at Rose sitting in the midst of them all but managing somehow to remain completely apart . |
| 7 | He thanked them all but told them that ‘ his determination was to spend his life and time and talent in his own family , for whose benefit he had now parted with all his worldly estate among them ’ . |
| 8 | You may not wish to write them all but imagine them nevertheless and draft out the pattern of the story . |
| 9 | Without exception the C E C are recommending you to accept them all but there is at least one where we 're accepting with a qualification . |
| 10 | After I clocked off , I shook hands with them all but there was no electric current up their impish sleeves . |
| 11 | The article on Flettner 's rotors ( ’ Critics in a spin over Flettner 's ships ’ , 10 March , p 6561 interested me greatly but I feel that another , better form of wind propulsion for ships is either unknown or is being ignored . |
| 12 | Well personally I mean erm Margaret impressed me greatly but I think John was inclined to be full of his own importance for one thing . |
| 13 | ‘ It does n't worry me morally but I have a lot of sympathy with those who do n't think it is very attractive . |
| 14 | Theyspoketo them nicely but if I asked them for anything it was as though they could n't be bothered . |
| 15 | Not me personally but I have known a few people who 've wanted perhaps , a very quiet wedding , just in a registry office , and finished up with a large church wedding . |
| 16 | ‘ I received a lot of abuse when I left Brookside , not ME personally but in a way just as bad . |
| 17 | It was the way he was erm as well out of his way to impress them so but they just , well you might help |
| 18 | That is to say , he could think through those ideas and feelings and in theory he could say them aloud but his shyness and his social position and the conventions about men expressing their feelings would have prevented him . |
| 19 | and you 'd fit them together but if it did n't fit you 'd have to do something to you 'd have to get them from som , from somewhere else . |
| 20 | Given that you can draw all sorts of amazing objects you might not think that you need to edit them much but IntelliDraw has some powerful editing tools . |
| 21 | I do n't , I mean we do n't have them much but do we really ? |
| 22 | There were moments when I all but spoke the truth . |
| 23 | Also , I must admit I saw a pair of green suede baby shoes in Gap and I all but swooned : size 0 , cute as Goldie Hawn 's left ear , very nearly her right . |
| 24 | Panting , dizzy with reaction , and seeking to ease his all but dislocated arm and shoulder , Ramsay surveyed the scene . |
| 25 | Honestly , I only but it for the sports features |
| 26 | Now I usually but the small number first , does n't matter . |
| 27 | that I really but I mean last year still not finished ! |
| 28 | Well I can understand it being hard but I equally but you |
| 29 | ‘ But the 1861 to 1865 papers are kept under lock and key , ’ warned the owner , inferring that those that I freely but reverently leafed through might have to have similar protection one day . |
| 30 | Neighbour Muriel Harding-Newman , 79 , said : ‘ We could see the cows were stamping and kicking and that someone was trying to push them away but they would n't move . |