Example sentences of "he [be] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet who could he be but Maurice ? |
| 2 | Yet where else could he be but on deck ? |
| 3 | For he is but a bastard to the time |
| 4 | ‘ We all know he is but it 's better we keep it quiet . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm like , ‘ I know who he is but I 've never listened to him . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He is but a little younger than you and is tall for his age , it is said . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He is but heir presumptive . ’ |
| 8 | Er I I 'm sure he is but may not |
| 9 | I know he 's happy where he is but I miss him . |
| 10 | ‘ If what is written about the boy is true — if he is but a fraction as talented as is said … well , it would be a great waste to kill him . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You 'll remember , my lord , ’ said Iago , rising with alacrity from the grass , ‘ that he is but an earl in the making and has no Latin . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He is but an earl … ’ ’ |
| 13 | The one who brings the money , well — ’ Mordecai hesitated — ‘ I do not know what he is but he is not a servant . ’ |
| 14 | STEWART McDonald ca n't remember what age he is but knows he was born in 1947 . |
| 15 | Yes he is but the thing is cars at the moment are so cheap |
| 16 | Yes , I suppose he is but I mean those two those pictures we bought were hundred and twenty and I mean they 're they 're only done by somebody in the village . |
| 17 | I mean he is desperately concerned , I mean he , he loves us all with a concern which just er er er er i is greater than anything we can understand , so concern at the at the slightest er doubt about , I ca n't understand how concerned he is but er I totally relax |
| 18 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 19 | Yes he 's he 's reading off er yes he 's but that 's printing off labels . |
| 20 | So , we should take on board when we look at Simon 's suggestions for Q P one , not only at things he 's but any other note that anyone else has got appropriate to that procedure . |
| 21 | At least when he was not with her she now knew where he was but the comfort this brought her was not as complete as it might have been because he was also with Annunciata during those times . |
| 22 | Endill tried to see where he was but it was too dark and he waited , not daring to move , for the Headmaster to put on the lights . |
| 23 | He was but stopped and stared at me , then turned and ran in the opposite direction . |
| 24 | She replied that she knew where he was but she did n't want to discuss it . |
| 25 | Perhaps a mature perception of this fact lay behind the rather surprising acquiescence of most Norman lords in William the Conqueror 's succession as duke in 1035 , though he was but a child and a bastard . |
| 26 | The young man ( he was but sixteen years old at the time ) was fighting for justice , for the claim of his father , Edward III , to the throne of France . |
| 27 | Now , as chairman of the English Association , " he was but widening the sphere of his watchfulness " . |
| 28 | If he reluctantly yielded on several occasions to such pressure , he much more quickly , and quite as often , violated his word afterwards ; in this he was but his father 's son . |
| 29 | Oh no I the twenty six strike er is just a You know a very very big and er you know er railway man , leader of the strike , buying all the shares because he was But that 's one of the things , because it was a headline in the |
| 30 | That 's what they reckon they used to do but he , I mean he was an old Jew , he was but he was , he was to the Germans . |