Example sentences of "but [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These rules may not much resemble the traditional grammatical rules of school textbooks but rules they are none the less . ’ |
| 2 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 3 | But Dan he he cried like once a day or something like that . |
| 4 | But mum we 're we 're |
| 5 | Straight but mum we had a very straight thing which sta stood on the table very hardly and |
| 6 | But mum we did go in th the car . |
| 7 | But mum I |
| 8 | I know but mum I have n't seen any two dozen boxes |
| 9 | But mum I have n't |
| 10 | But mum it 's a bit late from that . |
| 11 | ‘ But Confucius he say — ’ |
| 12 | They wo n't bother with it on G C S E maths , but physics they want to know the difference between velocity and acceleration . |
| 13 | But Colin I mean |
| 14 | I set her the first day to clean the floors starting at the top and expecting her to reach the bottom at the end of the day or at least the last floor , but Ellen she had not managed more than two rooms in eight hours and those not well done . |
| 15 | and she says well , it was Doctor but Jean she says you 've been so tired you should 've went of bed when you felt tired because with sitting |
| 16 | But David with with respect but David I can just see people 's eyes glazed over right now . |
| 17 | but coffee I drain the cup , but tea I do n't . |
| 18 | But Richard I was trying to get his on a and I , I 've , I 've helped two other children to put theirs on , I do n't know who they were , and Dorothy says , oh we better get out Ann the teacher wanted the the visitors |
| 19 | But Ann I 'm not suppo Well fucking hell she said . |
| 20 | But Mummy you could |
| 21 | but mummy I do n't really |
| 22 | But typewriters we had problems with because , if they went in for repair , you never got them back from the Ordinance Core , and so at one place in Tunbridge Wells we handed a typewriter in and because the army were allowed to buy greaseproof paper , we bought a lot of greaseproof paper which came in the package of a new typewriter . |
| 23 | Not only does she execute embroideries , but designs them too — thereby encroaching on what had formerly been a male preserve . |
| 24 | Yep and and he does n't seem to be able to concentrate and I said , but Neil you can drive , when you go out with me you drive beautifully yes but yours is an automatic car , I said , it 's not that I said you 've got road sense you know what you 're doing , I said your good . |
| 25 | But Neil he was gon na go down to Tesco 's but he is , Ipswich , ca n't get down here , so he ca n't sort of travel and you know what the hassle of having to take him and pick him up . |
| 26 | Desire and being desired are things they take for granted , but friendship you learn to value , if you are lucky enough to find it . |
| 27 | Furthermore , since they are not directives but guidelines they must be flexible enough to allow for teacher participation and the exercise of initiative so that teachers can follow their course in reference to the bearings provided . |
| 28 | Cos I did ea , by Monday I felt sick and I eat quite a lot at the weekend which was good , but Tuesday I start at placement and we , although like we talk , we do n't have , like a , conversation we as well and there was n't really anything to record , saying yesterday to record and |
| 29 | Section 3 does not invalidate a term , but subjects it to a test of reasonableness . |
| 30 | Yeah , but Jeff I might be getting the real thing tonight , er , ah , you 'll be |