Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had gone to the airfield intending to buy a car but when he checked it out he discovered it was stolen . |
| 2 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |
| 3 | Well I think that 's the intention but as you know it says M in there |
| 4 | Like the they 're names are Swedish sounding but if you put them together like an Asterix book they they sound like something else . |
| 5 | They stand outside , fidgeting and fighting but once they get it they 're okay . |
| 6 | They stand outside , fidgeting and fighting but once they get it they 're okay . |
| 7 | He wrote not to tell her this nor to send her any kind of greeting but because he wanted her to do something for him . |
| 8 | A palace aide said last night : ‘ We were all a bit apprehensive about the lunch but when they arrived they put everyone at ease . |
| 9 | It 's hard work but once she smiles you know it 's all worth while . |
| 10 | You can use paper of similar thickness but unless you stick it in some way to the faces it is difficult to keep it in position when assembling the cores into the bobbin and bolting it down to the board . |
| 11 | You have the blood of the Wolves of Tara and there is no question but that it makes you a Wolfprince . ’ |
| 12 | I said well I , he said still thought you were gon na do the bar with wood but since you put it like this if you had a te a tin of beans , would you know which one made you fart ! |
| 13 | Er I 'm not too sure where he lives cos he just , I think he 's just new to the town but if you give him a ring erm on the 's phone number and use the |
| 14 | ‘ A battleship is the salt cellar and the pepper a fishtank but if I see them both together they become a kangaroo . ’ |
| 15 | He wanted to yell for joy but when he tried he could n't get any sound out . |
| 16 | She said she knew nothing of a sectarian feud in the old days of Stormy Hill but if she did it was not the kind of thing you discussed with strangers , I sensed . |
| 17 | Nicholas 's voice checked him for a moment but when he turned he saw that the taxi driver was out of the cab and attempting to restrain him . |
| 18 | Now , that 's really great to me because I mean , you 're really stimulating the youngsters at that age , and quite obviously I could tell you loads of stories the way this neighbourhood engineers er er , scheme works at the moment but as I say we are embarrassed at the moment because , quite obviously , loads of school want us to participate but we got a very shortage of engineers . |
| 19 | ‘ It suggests nothing of the sort but as it happens you are partly right . |
| 20 | Few there be , are there few that be saved , well what does the bible say about this , first of all it teaches abundantly clearly that all may be saved , God is not partial , God has no favourites , he does n't love you more than he loves any body else , he does n't love me more than he loves you or you more than me , he does n't love you more than he loves ah any other racial group or any other ethnic group , he loves us all the same God so loved the world that he gave his only son Jesus Christ , here in his love , not that we love God says the apostle but that he loved us , the old testament profit reminds us that he has loved us with an ever lasting love , who , this was one of the hang ups that the Jewish nation had , they thought that they were the cats whiskers , he chose them , but he in fact did n't love them any more than he loved the , the hitites , the parasites , the gergasites and all the other ites , he loved them all the same , God is not partial in his love because he is love , if there was any body that God did not love he would actually cease to be God because love is not something that , that God does , you and I do it no matter how loving you are , or how loving you think you are , you are not love , you choose to love somebody and you love them , there are times when that love goes very thin sometimes , perhaps because of events that have happened , it can actually come to an end where that love dies , you withdraw your love God ca n't do that , God loves us as we 've said with an eternal love , a love that will go on throughout the endless ages of eternity |
| 21 | I listened for some sound of other prisoners in the building but although I thought I heard the locking and unlocking of other doors the only voices were those of the guards . |
| 22 | I du n no if it 's because it 's melted a bit but when I tried it before |
| 23 | I ai n't a bl builder or a carpenter or a chippy or a tiler but as I say I I I plan it out , always plan it out how I 'm going to do it . |
| 24 | At first he was shocked into admiration but as he waited he looked more carefully at the dark wood of the large , ugly pieces of furniture , the thick embossing on the pale yellow wallpaper and the heaviness of the dark brown velvet curtains . |
| 25 | James Spencer QC , prosecuting , alleged Mr Nichol approached Mrs Chandler in a field but when she ignored him he pulled her down the bank , sexually assaulted her and hit her on the head with a rock or rocks . |
| 26 | A severe drought is not a common feature on the field but when it occurs it may be in any month from April to September . |
| 27 | We had n't actually heard anything about this library experience but when I asked him he would n't say anything . |
| 28 | I do n't really get pocket money but if I see something in the shops in , in , this toy or something my mum , mum 'll buy it for me and say that 's your pocket money for this week . |
| 29 | Trudy had put up with his nonsense with great patience but when she found him busily working away in the region of her left ear it was too much . |
| 30 | Someone asked me whether , I thought it 'd be a bit of fun But as I say nobody knows who you are , or what you 've said or anything so it does n't matter does it ? |