Example sentences of "of [noun pl] but [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I did n't think they would put the band back together ; David had mentioned it a couple of times but I had n't really taken him that seriously . |
| 2 | The Japanese authorities have an interest in playing down the importance of earthquakes but I do n't . |
| 3 | Well I 've got lots of acquaintances but I do n't know that I necessarily want to put them on the erm |
| 4 | I 've been offered a lot of commissions but I have n't done any for two years . |
| 5 | They do this in the form of infidelities but they have very different consequences and conclusions , partly due to the differences in their characters and also their circumstances . |
| 6 | The food industry has been rather quiet for a couple of years but we have recently finished a Jaffa cake plant for McVities/United Biscuits in Manchester and a sugar refining job for Tate & Lyle . |
| 7 | Her season began unpromisingly with an attack of shingles which kept her out of action for a couple of weeks but she recovered quickly and so completely that in addition to compiling her formidable record on the golf course , she was able to cope more than adequately with her school exams . |
| 8 | Of course it became quite a game searching for pairs of initials but I do n't remember finding Alfred 's once . ’ |
| 9 | She reached for a pair of glasses but I did n't think it was because she was dazzled by my teeth . |
| 10 | I had n't realized just how much I 'd got out of the swing of things but everyone helped as much as they could and I soon adjusted back again . |
| 11 | Ha the information that we 've put out so far were our second reprint of the er of the black booklet of which there 'll be twelve thousand , they are quite an expensive item and , but our feeling was that er in order to sell the thing you 've got to do it properly and er spending money does n't come easily but er er in order to market the thing er thought that was the , the way to go and we 've done other things , stickers and badges and posters and so on and so forth , the normal sort of things but we 've really tried to spread these around the country and get the message that it 's a vibrant young er interesting fun thing to be involved in for young people . |
| 12 | There are pressures building up for me to do all sorts of things but I do n't want to accept them , ’ she says confidently , her blue eyes filled with a new purpose . |
| 13 | Erm and then after the , the greeting you went , the actual erm way that you went was statement of purpose and then you did actually start asking for referrals , you started but then you did n't actually follow anything up , you started the script of referrals but you did n't actually follow it up again with anything . |
| 14 | These avenues have not only taken up a lot of the time and energy of the present generation of activists but they have also reduced the reliance on the politics of the street demonstration by presenting alternative means of expression and action . |
| 15 | I 'm quite friendly with a lot of stars but I do n't really think of them as celebrities , more as friends . |
| 16 | She was in the middle of writing a report for the monthly meeting of the board of governors but she laid down her pen immediately . |
| 17 | Such strategies may improve the condition of suspects but they do not deal directly with the real difficulties encountered by police investigators and do not necessarily improve the quality of their results . |
| 18 | We have as many lovely things here as on the Mountain of Butterflies but we lack only a prophet and the eyes and emotions to see them . |
| 19 | Wives do n't count , you say they look pretty and bring them home bunches of flowers but you do n't take them seriously , their tiny minds are n't capable of grasping anything important . |
| 20 | We were reminded that before he became party leader , Neil Kinnock had said , in relation to Peter Tatchell , ‘ I am not in favour of witch-hunts but I do not mistake bloody witches for fairies . ’ |
| 21 | I made a lot of mistakes but I owned up to them and was starting to play pretty well . |
| 22 | ‘ I saw a couple of specialists but nothing showed up . |
| 23 | at it for responsibility and financial reasons and if you log down every bit that you spent doing admin assistant and E O then you 'd say stuff this for a game of soldiers but you do n't |
| 24 | ‘ You 've made a lot of accusations but you have n't come up with a single shred of evidence to back them up . ’ |
| 25 | In conclusion , the evidence from both the statistical correlation and the personal interview studies does not substantiate the state subsidy theory of strikes but it does not refute it either . |
| 26 | You know you used to have a choice of jobs but you do n't now . |