Example sentences of "but [pron] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but I also got a leaflet for refills as well |
| 2 | I am dark haired and tan quite easily , but I also have a lot of moles and freckles . |
| 3 | We must have sport , drama and music to enrich the children , but I also have an objective to make the children aware of city life and the wider world outside the community of small agricultural villages . |
| 4 | I want the maximum degree of unity , but I also want a treaty to be constructed that carries no inexorable commitment to a united states of Europe . |
| 5 | I want a galvanised chassis but I also want a diesel engine of about 3 litres capacity . |
| 6 | ‘ I like having him at home , but I also need a day to myself now and again , just to be able to think my own thoughts . ’ |
| 7 | Well most of them they saying are six contracts , now they say , say , six month contract or eight month contract or a three month contract , but I just had a couple that were like oh they could be a |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ Merrill said , blindly thrusting her notebook into her handbag , ‘ but I already have a date . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But I already have an assault charge hanging over me , so in the end I had to leave it to the stewards . |
| 10 | We did have a couple of suicides , but I soon put a stop to that . |
| 11 | After that I was blacked by the quality schools , but I soon landed a job for the rest of the year with a cowboy outfit in Italy who needed a replacement teacher in a hurry . |
| 12 | ‘ But I always like a beach to myself . |
| 13 | But I always have a fork , a knife and fork ; it 's … it 's bad manners to eat with your fingers . ’ |
| 14 | Reading the news for ITN means I sometimes work peculiar hours but I often have a weekday morning off , and that 's when I play golf . |
| 15 | There was n't much else she could do without attracting attention , but I definitely expected a bit of the old argy-bargy before she let me get down to business . |
| 16 | But I only threw a stone |
| 17 | That 's my first treble this season , but I once had a four-timer and a second from five rides at Newbury . ’ |
| 18 | I have n't I have n't actually seen one , but I once saw a lady on the bus with one |
| 19 | Normally he would n't touch a job as small as the cottage , but I once did a favour for his father , and when I mentioned that I was having trouble finding someone to do the job he volunteered . ’ |
| 20 | I was never much good at golf , and lacked patience and coordination ; but I once caught a pound trout on a Dunlop 65 golf-ball , and it happened like this . |
| 21 | I know it sounds mad but I suddenly had an image of them doing it on the carpet in the office like a couple of dogs . ’ |
| 22 | I 've got Mayfair Piccadilly , Fleet Street and Regent Street , but I never got a set did I ? |
| 23 | ‘ But I never got a reply . |
| 24 | ‘ Maybe I 'm perverse but I never plan a picture . |
| 25 | This technique produced a great deal of interesting material , but I still felt a need to achieve more insight into the language behaviour of my informants — especially outside school . |
| 26 | I may be getting on a bit but I still know a thing or two . ’ |
| 27 | But I still have a map drawn by one of his colleagues , marking all the main sea-trout and salmon lies on Stack ; worth its weight in gold , quite irreplaceable . |
| 28 | But I still have a cry , sometimes , when I realize that my mother is dead — and that 's years after . |
| 29 | Sometimes these sophisticated nine-year-olds really do seem to have the bug but I still feel a bit uncomfortable encouraging them because they are so young . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd offer to help , ’ she said apologetically , ‘ but I still feel a bit wobbly . ’ |