Example sentences of "but [pron] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing will more unite MPs of all parties than outrage over a Minister who lies in the sacred Commons chamber . |
| 2 | But nothing could now keep Chapman and London apart . |
| 3 | because my dad was more friendly with but I mean I do n't know , but I ca n't bear people like that I wish they 'd just , you know |
| 4 | But I ca n't make sense of it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I am sorry , but I ca n't sanction holiday money . ’ |
| 6 | But I ca n't marry Heathcliff now ! |
| 7 | ‘ I am a coach , but I ca n't coach people sitting on a bus , a train or an aeroplane . ’ |
| 8 | He says : ‘ I do like real beers , but I ca n't stand keg . |
| 9 | It 's the one thing that puts me off breeding — I love children , but I ca n't stand babies . ’ |
| 10 | Yes but I ca n't receive expert evidence on that because that 's the very thing I have to decide is n't it ? |
| 11 | ‘ But I ca n't work magic . ’ |
| 12 | You seem like a respectable sort of a lady , really , but I ca n't have people laughing like that and screaming and abusing in my pub . |
| 13 | ‘ I could imagine the Senseless Things , but I ca n't imagine Marc Bolan being resurrected from an enormous star in the sky and having Pan 's People dancing around him , and that was what was good for me ! |
| 14 | That s as may be , but I ca n't imagine Elsie committing suicide . |
| 15 | A warrior will plant his spear outside one of the small huts to indicate that he is inside and should not be disturbed , but I ca n't imagine Claudia , chic Parisienne , et cetera , allowing her relationship to be semaphored in this way from outside her own hut . |
| 16 | ‘ I like to think I 've achieved the former , but I ca n't get promotion in five months . ’ |
| 17 | It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first . |
| 18 | ‘ But I ca n't get hold of the mate in question . |
| 19 | I mean our , the more I think about it I think the main , we might even go to Germany to see my sister , so it might be next year , but I ca n't get Tony to talk at the moment , I do n't know erm , |
| 20 | I have to have something else , but I ca n't take aspirin you see . |
| 21 | K : ‘ The evenings are a very special time but I ca n't take Chloe to the park because there is a hostel for down-and-outs by it and they sit on the park benches drinking and shouting abuse . |
| 22 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
| 23 | Jarvis never does anything that is n't to do with trains but I ca n't understand Elsie . |
| 24 | I do n't know why , but I ca n't see things that clearly . |
| 25 | ‘ But I ca n't see Philip sitting back and doing nothing about it . |
| 26 | Sappho wrote a few nicely pulsating ones , but I ca n't see Anya finding her way to Mephistco 's archive to chase up the 1,000-year-out-of-print Collected Works . |
| 27 | ‘ The hard part is not letting it go to your head , but I ca n't see Kylie making that mistake . |
| 28 | But I would not have Alida need friends or be lonely in any way , however difficult a person she may be . |
| 29 | But I would not see Leslie again . |
| 30 | ‘ It was a kind of flippant remark , but I would not call David it . |