Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I starve like any Frenchman ! ’ |
| 2 | The water 's real cold , but I wash my face anyhow . |
| 3 | But I yearn for a child or even children . |
| 4 | I am , by nature , one of the latter , but I yearn to be one of the former , and many years of travelling has led me to a kind of uneasy compromise . |
| 5 | I did hear some buyers indicate that the EUROAIM scheme made it easy to avoid , en masse , many troublesome independents , as they were all grouped conveniently together , but I trust this was a minority position ! |
| 6 | They are certainly making such preparations as have never been made to invade this island since the Spanish Armada ; but I trust in God and Lord Anson . |
| 7 | ‘ They are certainly making such preparations as have never been made to invade this island since the Spanish Armada ; but I trust in God and Lord Anson . ’ |
| 8 | You must of course deal with the odd letters of criticism , but I trust that these can be viewed in proportion to those ( probably thousands ) of satisfied members , who are nevertheless unlikely to write in every month to say so . |
| 9 | I hoped that we could do that today , but I trust that we shall certainly have an opportunity tomorrow . |
| 10 | Erm the next session is rather hard work for you cos it 's very much sort of listening and absorbing a hell of a lot of facts , but I trust you will bear with me . |
| 11 | There are , however , some hostile tribes far in the interior , but I trust he has sufficient prudence not to venture within their district . |
| 12 | Yeah but I trust her I do n't know |
| 13 | I 'm very sorry that as soon as I have finished this welcome this morning that I have got to leave you , and I am very sorry that I shall not be able to return this evening for your dinner which I would originally look forward very much to but I trust that you will enjoy the company of the Chairman of our Environmental Services Committee , Councillor Robin Draga , who is attending on my behalf . |
| 14 | But I liken it to an opposition party in a parliament , or a critical press ; acting as a consclence and a brake , but not in power and unlikely to assume it . |
| 15 | suite The Hoover 's on the blink but I don |
| 16 | I know you are over age ( over 21 , she means , he said ) but I worry about you because of all that happened ( she means me being an orphan , he said ) . |
| 17 | But I worry about whether that amount of housing stock is going to be replaced in the area , cos that is obviously very important . |
| 18 | And I know she knows , but I worry that maybe I have n't said the right words the right way . |
| 19 | ‘ I speak not only of the Army — although as Colonel Moore knows probably better than I , the acts of heroism you see there in the face of pain — wounds , cuts , torn limbs ’ — he looked at Mrs Crump ; she swayed slightly — ‘ severed arteries , gashed heads ’ — Mrs Moore was unaffected — ‘ and all the terrible lacerations and disfigurements received on the human body in modern warfare ’ — Miss D'Arcy nodded ; she was intrigued — ‘ but I speak of the self-inflicted torments of the Indian , the Negro and the Mussulman . ’ |
| 20 | The doctors say ‘ Forget it , ask a relative ’ but I speak to them . ’ |
| 21 | You may laugh at this rvolutionary theory BUT I speak from experience . |
| 22 | But I object to the killing . ’ |
| 23 | " I do n't mind investigating poisonings on the farms but I object to being poisoned myself in my own home ! " |
| 24 | I do not believe that Scotland can or should avoid its international obligations , but I object to the fact that we are apparently being singled out as the one country that will be the nuclear laundry for everyone else . |
| 25 | Even those of us who are keen to return the residents to London can not turn the clock back to those days , but I recommend Tower House to someone who would like to see Malmesbury go more gently into the future . |
| 26 | I have not discussed the essays by d " Auzac , Asher , Frowe , McGonigal , Seitz and Gibson , but I recommend them to the reader 's attention . |
| 27 | I wondered for a moment if he was dead drunk ; but I fancy not . " |
| 28 | But I fancy I can still hear the sounds of the metal detector and a globe spinning ! |
| 29 | But I fancy thy wife is the fair Quaker . |
| 30 | Sir Denis he may be but I fancy the measures being poured in the big rooms have been even more liberal ( small ‘ l ’ , of course ) than before . |