Example sentences of "[pers pn] but [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd think twice about levelling those jarges at Jake Burns if he was sitting in the same room as me but seeing as he 's on a car phone whizzing up London 's Tottenham Court Road , what the heck ! |
| 2 | The crowd parted , and they stood gazing up the canyon , not out of interest in me but to see if the bus was coming . |
| 3 | For their part , Sonnabend agree that Halley has the right to leave them but claim that he should have honoured his verbal agreement to put together the 1991 May show . |
| 4 | Because they can see nothing in front of them but cooking and scrubbing and mending … and endless babies . |
| 5 | Had we but known that money was so scarce , RW&P would willingly have sent round the collection box to gather money to compensate the RFU in return for keeping the England jersey white ( or , for that matter , the WRU for keeping the Welsh jersey red ) . |
| 6 | The driver glanced at him but sensed that Whitlock was n't in the mood to talk . |
| 7 | She went to cringe back from him but stilled as he started to unbutton his shirt . |
| 8 | I tried to turn in behind him but found that I was going to overshoot and pulled away to starboard . |
| 9 | He took her to the airport nurse , who could find nothing wrong with her but agreed that she might be suffering from jet lag and needed only to rest . |
| 10 | Her son , who had scarcely known her but felt that his own throne was conceivably under threat so long as she lived , made no great show of grief when the news was brought to him . |
| 11 | He considered meeting her halfway and warning her but decided that getting coffee into her grandfather had priority . |
| 12 | Knowing that there was nothing for it but to go and apologise and , if possible , explain that her regularly serviced car was misbehaving , Fabia had her hand on the door-handle when she realised that she had no need to move . |
| 13 | I am not too fond of it but go and judge for yourself . |
| 14 | There is nothing for it but to taste and to experiment for yourself . |
| 15 | There was nothing for it but to do as he suggested . |
| 16 | Eddie wanted Angy to end it but said that she was too soft-hearted . ’ |
| 17 | Now I am 74 and think that i understand it but wish that I did not . |
| 18 | Much of the church 's teaching is based on a concept that implies the need to live ‘ holy ’ lives in this world , without expecting reward or recognition for it but anticipating that the afterlife will reflect something of the quality of this earthly life . |
| 19 | The Men were outside his cage trying to open it but failing because the branch had buckled it . |
| 20 | ‘ Ours but to do or die , right ? |
| 21 | Such groups were said to be like the foreigners in the adjacent forces , for it was constantly repeated that many wanted to join us but failed because of some inadequacy . |