Example sentences of "[noun prp] but [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's Thursday and she was supposed to phone you Tuesday but he still keeps |
| 2 | Nearing the end , Pip realises that he could find contentment with Biddy but he soon learns that he is too late as she has already found happiness with Joe . |
| 3 | I thought coming forward Leeds played brill on saturday but they still looked a bit lazy and complacent at the back ( esp . |
| 4 | I intended to give you a card on Saturday but I completely forgot . |
| 5 | But as long as she do n't forget Ga cos I wo n't see her , well we 'll see her on the Saturday but it well I suppose that 'll that wo n't make much difference will it ? |
| 6 | I carried on , then came back to live in the North but it just seems to have been a really cemented bond . ’ |
| 7 | Of this period Glass says ; ‘ I loved Charlie Parker and Bud Powell but it never occurred to me to play their music . |
| 8 | ‘ I loved Charlie Parker and Bud Powell but it never occurred to me to play their music . |
| 9 | We thanked Peckle but he never stirred a hair . |
| 10 | They have their background , in the church and church matters in England but I personally do n't think it matters if you are not familiar with the details . |
| 11 | I worked in England but I always seemed to miss the good jobs abroad ; every time I started rehearsing for something special , my mother would drag me away . |
| 12 | We were the first British team ever to play in St Thomas and Tortoal ; in Anguilla we made history again because we played the first ever ‘ first-class ’ in England but it certainly will in Anguilla ! |
| 13 | I have n't a lot of time for Rodney but I really do feel sorry for Eleanor , ’ Melissa went on thoughtfully , remembering the afternoon 's encounter . |
| 14 | ‘ A friend keeps inviting me to visit her in Scotland but I always turn her down . |
| 15 | He is deeply in love with Estella but she just does n't want to know him . |
| 16 | We read in the papers about the German war in Russia but we only knew one boy who was fighting there : Ada 's brother . |
| 17 | Maidstone had now stepped up to the bar beside Sandison but he still did not look to be at ease . |
| 18 | Not only does it offer the opportunity for forging strong links and friendships between schools in Northern Ireland but it also allows them to learn about a very different social and cultural environment in Japan , ’ said Mr Hanley . |
| 19 | In the next 20 years the NHS did not escape criticism from academic Fabians but it never reached the volume and intensity of the criticism which , for example , social security and income maintenance attracted as they appeared to retreat further and further away from the principles of the Beveridge Report . |
| 20 | I ca n't believe I actually bought Benson but they never said that |
| 21 | It is , though , more overtly apparent when he attempts to limit the damage to the atmosphere of the conversation caused by McKendrick 's accusation of his insincerity when praising Stoke university : Rather than make a straightforward denial , Anderson tries to diffuse the tension with humour by playing on the literal sense of McKendrick 's accusation. his display of urbane wit brings about some laughter from McKendrick but it also elicits a sardonic comment which is a valid observation on Anderson 's character . |
| 22 | He also throws away too many key phrases : ‘ This Triton of the minnows ’ is a magnificent epithet for Sicinius but it here gets lost and although in the great banishment-speech Mr Dance 's body-language is good ( as he hurls his coat to the ground in fine disdain ) it is significant that the directors resort to an echo-chamber effect on ‘ There is a world elsewhere . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Hell ’ , indeed , might be some acoustically Stones-ian descent into a nightclub in Hades but it also could be the only relationship song where a harshly dissected third party pollutes Simon 's playpool . |
| 24 | Not playing her piano might have meant not going to Rickmansworth but he still went . |
| 25 | my Lord I I do have some other observations on matters with Mr but it maybe more economical and effective on the new issues to wait until after Mr has addressed you and to deal with them at one point |
| 26 | The main operations are in Coventry but we now have a satellite office in Grimsby to provide a regional service and handle smaller projects competitively . |
| 27 | ‘ First , Hopkins was a monk , a Benedictine from Glastonbury but he also served as a chaplain for the Santerres here at Templecombe as well as for the outlying farms . |
| 28 | I like that , I do n't like Jason Donovan but I quite like that , do you ? |
| 29 | His real name is Bruce but he never answers to it . ’ |
| 30 | Well I sent it to the B B C , I sent it to Duncan but I also sent it to the the Lady a shorter version to the Lady their competition and I said their competition was gon na be on the eighteenth in their issue they would give the names of the of the winners , but I had looked in the Lady yesterday in Smiths and there was none of nothing about it , but I do n't think I 've won anyway because it said you 'd be notified by post so . |