Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 I am telling the police , of course , but nothing happen , they do n't arrest nobody .
2 But whom do they really work for ?
3 But I starve like any Frenchman ! ’
4 The water 's real cold , but I wash my face anyhow .
5 But I yearn for a child or even children .
6 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 .
7 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 !
8 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 .
9 ‘ 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 . ’
10 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 .
11 I hoped that we could do that today , but I trust that we shall certainly have an opportunity tomorrow .
12 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 .
13 There are , however , some hostile tribes far in the interior , but I trust he has sufficient prudence not to venture within their district .
14 Yeah but I trust her I do n't know
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 suite The Hoover 's on the blink but I don
18 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 ) .
19 But I worry about whether that amount of housing stock is going to be replaced in the area , cos that is obviously very important .
20 And I know she knows , but I worry that maybe I have n't said the right words the right way .
21 ‘ 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 . ’
22 The doctors say ‘ Forget it , ask a relative ’ but I speak to them . ’
23 You may laugh at this rvolutionary theory BUT I speak from experience .
24 But I object to the killing . ’
25 " I do n't mind investigating poisonings on the farms but I object to being poisoned myself in my own home ! "
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 I have not discussed the essays by d " Auzac , Asher , Frowe , McGonigal , Seitz and Gibson , but I recommend them to the reader 's attention .
29 I wondered for a moment if he was dead drunk ; but I fancy not . "
30 But I fancy I can still hear the sounds of the metal detector and a globe spinning !
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