Example sentences of "[noun prp] but [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was saying sorry on Tuesday but you could n't fault him here , ’ said Lions boss Mick McCarthy . |
| 2 | To be sure working with a narrower aperture will decrease Ap but it will bring about a compensating uncertainty Ax in the electron 's position . |
| 3 | I 've never heard of it Dennis but I 'll have a wild stab in the dark it 's |
| 4 | ‘ Some players may be stronger than David but nobody can live with him in terms of all-round ability . |
| 5 | I said no bugger ever asked my opinion David but you can guarantee I 'm always there to give it |
| 6 | Yes , Euro Cities is an organisation of Brussels but it must not be allowed to dominate the proceedings and massage and manage the cities . |
| 7 | Midwinter will never be the president of the United States but he will be close to the President . |
| 8 | ‘ I think I should earn more as the WBC title is recognised as a better class than the WBO but I might come to a 50-50 split . ’ |
| 9 | It has already become fashionable to knock Kylie Minogue but I can take it , ’ she added . |
| 10 | We may need your young friend ( relative ? ) for the dinosaur sequence on Friday but we will need to discuss this . |
| 11 | ‘ In 10 years , it wo n't be Crystal Palace but it may be Southern League , Division Seven . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Everybody still calls her Mary Penrose but she should be Mary Parkes . |
| 13 | It 's going to be tough on Saturday but she wo n't mind the rain which might frighten one or two away . ’ |
| 14 | I mean , I 've had an offer from who said I 'll come in any Saturday but I ca n't take him off Dick cos Dick needs him there . |
| 15 | Anton 's likely to play at Brighton on Saturday but he 'll probably be away on Monday and it would be difficult to play him on Wednesday . ’ |
| 16 | Mr Gorbachev may refrain from saying it publicly on Saturday but he can be expected to press Mr Honecker all the more urgently in private . |
| 17 | Ormsby from the Weld stable is joint top weight with Salmon Eile but 10st is a lot of poundage to carry and it may be best to rely on Loki who rather disappointed at the Curragh last Saturday but who should be given another chance if going to the post . |
| 18 | She had not had an answer from Ellen but she could not wait . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's in the Hennessy but we 'll probably miss that . |
| 20 | had to take a sort of erm south to erm not just thought of both the names and the other one but they would be nearer to Exeter but it would n't be sort of in Exeter itself I was thinking , you know , probably get erm you know , see if there 's any new houses being built there and what sort of price and what have you . |
| 21 | He knows he made a mistake at Ibrox but he will have wiped it from his mind . |
| 22 | Oh , I mean we wanted to go in May but we ca n't we can may apart from the fact it 'll be half tricky , we 'll be more busy , I do n't like it when it 's busy |
| 23 | To date there is little evidence of this happening within the NHS but it must soon occupy our attention as a matter of urgency . |
| 24 | I am a great fan of Monica Seles but I can not believe all the letters about these two players . |
| 25 | ‘ I could ask Sebastian but I 'd rather he did n't know . |
| 26 | They happened to end up in Cork but it might just as well have been Hamburg or Paris or London , or America , as so many other Jews did . |
| 27 | When I said she was n't here , he asked where she was and I said Maidstone and he said she 'd moved and I said then I did n't know but he could leave the flowers here for Frank but he would n't . |
| 28 | Lewis , 54 , is chairman of Glamorgan but he will quit that job next week . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's different from England but they 'll soon get used to it ’ often sums up the attitudes of those who play a part in posting staff overseas but who have not lived abroad themselves . |
| 30 | Driving round Piccadilly Circus in a taxi he would screech out of the window , ‘ I 'm the Queen of England but I ca n't remember which . ’ |