Example sentences of "but [pron] be a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'm a wage-earner myself , you know , now , ’ she said , and her thoughts travelled back to the past month , when she had eked out their very slender resources by taking out a couple of children every afternoon . |
| 2 | But you are a teacher yourself ! |
| 3 | She is always a gaijin ( a foreigner ) in a world that jealously protects its insular identity , but she is a gaijin who has penetrated Japan more deeply than most . |
| 4 | Well not all the time , nobody 's right all the time , but she is a right she is right a lot of the time Jonathan because some of them children misbehave |
| 5 | Th one person did it very well apparently but she was a person who er an older person who was n't working . |
| 6 | ‘ A proper old duck ’ , she was known as locally , but she was a duck who had somehow acquired a set of sharp teeth with a bite . |
| 7 | With Brian Reid deciding to ride at Scarborough , Joey Dunlop has the 250cc championship wrapped up but there is a possibility his brother Robert will be in action on a Yamaha . |
| 8 | I 'll speak to the owners first but there is a possibility I might end up withdrawing Cab on Target . ’ |
| 9 | There has n't been much opportunity to do anything new , but there is a painting which will be the final work in the catalogue and which I have yet to complete . |
| 10 | But there is a question there is a p another point here that having got to the position we 're in , erm does it How much are we going to be affected by the extent of the commitments ? |
| 11 | ‘ But there is a by-law which prevents the keeping of asses or swine within the burgh limits of Inverness . ’ |
| 12 | Tomorrow he will announce yet another expedition , but there is a suspicion it will not involve the poles . |
| 13 | SEVE Ballesteros may not be taking part in golf 's World Cup in Madrid this week , but there is a player who bears an amazing resemblance to him . |
| 14 | but there is a lot I mean , but how do you get in ? |
| 15 | It may not impress you , but there 's a man I should be defending in court all day , and it 's nearly dawn . |
| 16 | ‘ No , but there 's a wife who wo n't be too pleased with her husband . |
| 17 | But there 's a price you 're paying . |
| 18 | Er on the horses that 's understandable , they can start off and probably do n't knock theirself but there 's a time they 'd done twenty or thirty mile pulling a load . |
| 19 | But there 's a thing I have to do . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Yer know the story about what 'appened ter my Will , but there 's a lot yer do n't know about the Galloways . |
| 21 | They 'll never behave perfectly , of course , but there 's a lot you can do to make your home safer . |
| 22 | First of all I thought the nursing staff was nice , but there was a couple who were right bitches . |
| 23 | There was you know little firms like that and yet everybody was in , nobody nobody would ever try and er and er and er and escape paying their contribution , but there was a law you could n't join a union till you were sixteen , that was the law then in then , but er when this strike came back and we came on strike in December , er we lads who was under age joined the union , they give us all six bob a week , the union did . |
| 24 | But they are a reality which Naipaul treats in such a way that they , too , can at times seem phantasmagorical . |
| 25 | The lady Anne looks different tonight but 't is a difference I can not fathom . |
| 26 | Oh , I know the prince is n't a fascist , he 's got nothing but contempt for Musso ; Constanza says her father was never the man who had much faith in any trains running on time ; but he is a man who can still get favours from the regime . |
| 27 | There were times when I tried to tell him before that I was just sleeping with him because he wanted to sleep with me , but he 's a person who can get easily upset , and I did n't want to hurt him . |
| 28 | But he was a man who needed to articulate his theories and here he could put them forward , embroider , reject , explore without the uncomfortable suspicion that his detective sergeant , deferentially listening , his face carefully expressionless , would be thinking , For God 's sake , what 's the old man dreaming up now ? |
| 29 | But he was a man who liked challenges and this wilful — child — for despite her boasted nearly twenty-one years , to Neil Cochrane she seemed little more — appeared to offer one . |
| 30 | ‘ It probably had a lot to do with his job but he was a fella who always had a word for you , ’ said Mr Lavery . |