Example sentences of "[adj] but [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the sentence context , Henry is n't Scottish but he wears a … , this function may not be important . |
| 2 | ( Her accent is very French but she speaks English fluently . ) |
| 3 | At some stage during her crisis-strewn life Emily had gone to the University of Lancaster to study French but she 'd never completed her course . |
| 4 | ‘ I certainly do n't go on stage ill prepared but I have never had a script for any of my shows . |
| 5 | We may not be able to plan the unplannable but we have to accommodate it in our plans . |
| 6 | And and I 'm all in favour as I say getting more through the letter box , it 's easier for us and it But I I think I mean I 'm quite happy to leave this now and just carry on with the bridal But we have to make this pay itself |
| 7 | Eva was convinced she would get well if she was sensible but she had no intention of spending the rest of her life wrapped in cotton wool . |
| 8 | The most recent , and it 's quite exciting , is to use magnetic resonance imaging to look at erm nuclei in the body and to see what they 're doing and where they are , and that 's going to be very exciting but it involves having a very very large magnet in which one puts a whole patient all at once . |
| 9 | It 's not attractive or exciting but you have to do a basic job ’ . |
| 10 | NEWSPAPER ARTICLES about the consequences of a shortage of oil ( or , as now , what happens when there is too much of the stuff ) appear almost daily but we hear too little about another vital industrial resource . |
| 11 | Harvey was certainly reliable but I think he was also capable of pulling off the classic save ( as in the Leeds-Arsenal Cup final ) . |
| 12 | I actually think that , I know it is more complicated and messy but I think that she should pick someone from res . |
| 13 | I know it is more complicated and messy but I think that she should pick someone from res . |
| 14 | He was still calm but she thought that his face was paler . |
| 15 | Now , I know many pe , persons who have liked smoking but who have to , for some reason or other , maybe raised blood pressure , to give up and they have managed to do it and quite easily , because they have desperately wanted to . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's being very brave but he did adore her , you know . ’ |
| 17 | Oh you 're okay do n't get me wrong but they think . |
| 18 | So I got it wrong But I put Bern down originally Ann 's question Where is the Orange Free State ? |
| 19 | Gazza said : ‘ Some of what he did might have been wrong but I respect the fact that Maradona made himself the player Napoli could n't do without when he was in Italy . |
| 20 | May be I 'm wrong but I think it 's in a block . |
| 21 | One that I thought wrong but I think I 've got it right . |
| 22 | I do not know what is wrong but I do n't feel right ’ , he said . |
| 23 | I mean I do n't , I do n't believe that your government is stupid er it may be immoral on occasions , it may be wrong but I do n't believe it 's necessarily stupid . |
| 24 | Cos I used this look , I said that erm I 'd re I had represented his father in an accident case some years before and I was acquainted with the family in a casual way , and I said this may suggest , because he was saying you can make up and you can , this is a bit when you can use your imagination , and I said this may suggest that his father , you know he 'd like , because it the way he says that , I 'd represented his father , I was acquainted , you know maybe that he knows he 's used to that kind of erm behaviour from the family , you know , and he knows what Eddie 's like his fa I do n't know I might be completely wrong but I used my imagination there . |
| 25 | since he came to our Lordships House with some very and has had to sit this thing ever since then with one exception er to speeches deeply and seriously critical er of the proposals er coming from Members of your Lordships House mostly with vast experience of the subject matter former Secretary 's er er former Chief Constable er and er so many others and I arise only to put one point to you if my Noble Friend decides to resist these amendments , it seems to me I may be wrong but it seems to me overwhelmingly clear that they will be carrying against him and they will be put into the Bill which will be very considerably altered and amended , some of your Lordships may think improved , but certainly drastically altered and I wonder whether er my Noble Friend thinks that really would be helpful from the point of view either of the pr future progress of the Bill , or the position of the Government . |
| 26 | She let him pass her , fifty yards to the east ; the temptation to shout was wrong but she waited until he was at the hedge . |
| 27 | She had done nothing wrong but she felt that she had . |
| 28 | Whether Annie and Lizzie had heard of the Sunday visit or had marked her absence was n't clear but they appeared almost conciliatory compared to previous days . |
| 29 | Trainer Frank Berry reckons he is now in the clear but he has n't the form to recommend him . |
| 30 | The driver had the good manners to signal with headlights that he was clear but he stayed in the overtaking lane , letting the twin turbos build up speed . |