Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adj] [verb] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have this agreement in America which I am prepared to fulfil but there 's all these things going on and I ca n't pass any comment . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm sorry to say but I think that we 're talking about this education day at the beginning of October and I mean god knows we 've known this is coming for , it 's almost as if we 've got to the brink of , you know like lemmings just about to throw ourselves off the cliff and we do n't know why we 're going to do it . |
| 3 | I like the guitar , I like to listen to the guitar , not the classical stuff , I 'm sorry to say but , I like to listen to the guitar . |
| 4 | I , I mean I 'm willing to come but I ca n't come each , every . |
| 5 | I 'm not at all sure I 'm fit to drive but I have to if I 'm going to get to Inverness in time for the connecting flight . |
| 6 | I 'm prepared to pay but I 'll have to do it , just let me do it a bit a week . |
| 7 | He was chosen for Scotland 's tour of North America in May , played in four of the six games , including the two non-cap Tests , and scored three tries : ‘ I was delighted to go but I never thought for a moment that I would make the Test side . |
| 8 | I was sad to leave but felt that a turnover of paid staff was unavoidable with the present pay and conditions . |
| 9 | Erm Oh dear this is going to be a long list of things I was supposed to do but did n't . |
| 10 | This was not an area I was likely to visit but , nevertheless , my poor mother , hearing the report on the wireless , was sure that I must be among the casualties ! |
| 11 | Pattern recognition techniques that have most often been applied to script include spatial analysis methods ( where strokes are coded by a numbering system on a grid ) which are easy to implement but are only suitable for unconnected characters , and will be user dependent in order to keep the database of character codings small and accuracy high . |
| 12 | There are many crimes which are hard to prove but they remain nonetheless crimes . |
| 13 | Ours is n't a century like the eighteenth century which is impossible to love but which has its own integrity , an identity . |
| 14 | What sanction does the right hon. Gentleman suggest for those who persistently flout the view of the court that somebody is able to pay but refuses to do so ? |
| 15 | One retired Somerset man told a visiting kinsman , ‘ You are likely to have but a short feast here , but I pray you if you have not good cheer blame my sonne John Webb and not me , for of my troth I have made him master of all . ’ |
| 16 | The author who is anxious to wound but fearful to strike too obviously will not escape . |
| 17 | I did n't understand what you said , that 's all , ’ she was quick to change but she refused to withdraw . |
| 18 | There is also a third form of competition , one which comes neither from the academy , nor from the laity , one by which we are all influenced but which rarely receives the attention it deserves : novelists , journalists , film-makers and dramatists are , at least in part , also professional students of the social world . |
| 19 | And granddad does n't li want people to see him sort of you know when he has to get up and walk about and go to the loo with the door open and I mean it 's not so bad for us because we 're all related but it 's awful for You know I mean I ca n't imagine Jody or Jessica or Alison or anybody liking it very much . |
| 20 | We were all rationed but we , we everybody got their fair share . |
| 21 | We were ready to leave but the lady insisted that we keep looking , she was convinced there were more . |
| 22 | This one is easy to do but difficult to get right . |
| 23 | I have concentrated on the higher forms of life , not only because they are easy to observe but also to some extent because they have greater meaning for our own species . |
| 24 | A corduroy pair in livid crimson , they are horrid to behold but a joy to paint , and were immediately transferred to the canvas . |
| 25 | said they 're all versioned but what I still ca n't get hold of is , is a copy of . |
| 26 | And they 're all creating but you know |
| 27 | They 're all saying and they 're all talking but I 'm the only one , I have been at the council , I have been at the councillor , I have been at Waterloo Place , but nobody will back me up at all ! |
| 28 | I think they 're both gone but I 'm not too sure . |
| 29 | An analysis of what people have done is likely to be useful not only in ascertaining what they 're likely to do but also what their linguistic needs are . |
| 30 | But but they looked wild because they would have long hair beards a and and all oh my word they were wild looking but er . |