Example sentences of "[noun prp] but [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good progress was made on the Saturday but when I looked at what still remained for Sunday , I thought we 'd do well to finish half the distance . |
| 2 | He said , Johnny but because you know them I would n't waste |
| 3 | The original objective was to liberate South Korea , it then began to unite Korea but if you raise the objective to an assault on China proper then , then you would have to quote General Ridgeway , who was a commander on the spot , er you 'd be fighting the wrong war , the wrong time and in the wrong place . |
| 4 | The original objective was to liberate South Korea , it then began to unite Korea but if you raise the objective to an assault on China proper then , then you would have to quote General Ridgeway , who was a commander on the spot , er you 'd be fighting the wrong war , the wrong time and in the wrong place . |
| 5 | Fisheries Minister Jan Henry Olsen said a quota would be set after the meeting of the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) in Kyoto in May but that he expected it to be in the range of a " few hundred " minke whales a year . |
| 6 | ‘ We may not be in the same league as Servette but where we score over most teams is with our spirit . |
| 7 | He is persuaded to teach the talented Marin Marais but when he detects the young musician has little sympathy for his belief music is only an expression for sorrow , he returns to his hermit 's existence . |
| 8 | The following extracts from it , written before Edward had met Helen Noble but after he had left St. Paul 's catches the effect the old man had upon the young would-be writer : |
| 9 | Well Rudy can take you down to you know where to go Tarrers But if you do n't wan na go you 're , you 've got the telly . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought we played some good stuff against Oldham but when you concede three goals you obviously have problems — if you score three at home you should run out winners . ’ |
| 11 | and six pound fifty then week cos I wo n't , you wo n't have them on Monday but if she keeps working it 'll be most Mondays anyway |
| 12 | they go on about Shakespeare and Chauce Chaucer but if you spoke to them the way Chaucer used to speak they would n't understand a word you were saying . |
| 13 | I wanted to find someone to help Mrs Hobbs but as I went to the desk , she was already being carried through the door . |
| 14 | Well I , he lived at Stowmarket for years but then I heard not so long ago that they had moved to Ipswich but where I do n't know but they must be , whether he 's than I have now I do n't know either . |
| 15 | I know they do Jed but but I mean what I 'm saying if priority states other forces have probably been waiting and rather than us sort of trying |
| 16 | I 'd thought it was Dargaville but when we reached the small town of Warkworth , the name ‘ rang a bell ’ . |
| 17 | Erm er I was concerned when my Noble Friend said that he 'd looked up Hallsbury but that it did n't contain the right words , er er I rather wonder whether he looked up so to speak the right version or the last version . |
| 18 | I shall be on holiday during the last two weeks of August but if you have any queries during my absence on vacation my assistant , Jack Robinson , will answer these . |
| 19 | Behind the HQ building , to the right of what Waters called the Paddock but before you got to the Wood , was a small black circle quite close to the boundary fence . |
| 20 | He was put clean through by Ray Houghton in the 68th minute , rounded goalkeeper Bryan Gunn but although he steadied himself to convert from only six yards , he somehow failed to even hit the target . |
| 21 | Their weakness is not that they will not commit themselves to God but that they do not commit themselves to anything . |
| 22 | It was a secret that made her even more different , because now that people were saying that she was turning into the dark beauty her mother had been , she knew much more about why men and women made babies , that it was n't because it was a duty to God but because they enjoyed it ; and seeing him in church every week , noticing that his voice was going deep and that her own body was changing too and that they were becoming man and woman made her think about him and long for him more and more : she wanted to have him completely , entirely for herself . |
| 23 | Okay it 's not going through Hertfordshire but if they 've got half a billion to spend , I am sure it would be better spent , public transport is only one way . |
| 24 | The opposition leader Hugh Gaitskell pressed the point and eventually , on 14 May , Eden was forced to admit that an underwater spying operation had been carried out against the Russian ships by Crabb but that it had been done without official approval . |
| 25 | Twice during February , the White House dispatched a CIA official to see him , This man was selected not because of his knowledge of Iran but because he exuded a certain gravidas . |
| 26 | When I first saw her again I was surprised to find that I was now a little taller than Daphne but that she had lost almost as much weight as I had . |
| 27 | We audit ten of the forty main requirements in Manchester but as I said earlier taking P G's and P W's as being er predominant in the larger plc markets . |
| 28 | It should have been a relief to escape from the train at Holborn but as she crossed the platform and began to mount the stairs a feeling of confusion and disorientation took hold of her . |
| 29 | I walked from Holborn but as I got close I discovered the attraction of setting foot in there again had faded rather badly . ’ |
| 30 | Er yeah it is Stefan but because you know it 's the first one to come into leaf and the first one to shed , then possibly it will flower at a different time as well I would think and that may be the clue . |