Example sentences of "but [pron] [modal v] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But I ca n't Nana , the river too high just now . ’
2 I do recall something of it now , but I ca n't details .
3 Yeah , but I ca n't sides than that .
4 Aisha 's insistent words in the grain store , as she shook her gold earrings and the bangles on her wrist , urging me to stay at home , but I could only gaze at her shoes and marvel at how exactly they matched her handbag .
5 ‘ A major misconception is to treat IT as a department but you ca n't hive it off , it has to pervade an organisation and be built into marketing , sales , finance , production and so on . ’
6 ‘ Oh , but you ca n't dice about like that , ’ Joanna said boldly .
7 But you ca n't sort of turn round to Hannah and say Hannah , you 've got B O !
8 But you ca n't Mr Mallards , can you ?
9 understand the meaning behind the sentence but you could n't word for word .
10 So it 's not engaged , but you can still camp on to their handset , basically the computer , tell them when it 's next used .
11 But she could not distance herself from her friend 's tragedy .
12 There obviously are n't more than thirty one days in a month but we 'll just practice then counting from twenty now and we 'll stop at thirty nine
13 Collectivism would eventually lead to totalitarianism — fascism and communism are collectivist ideologies — but it would also surface in the bureaucratic thinking of Western governments and multinational corporations .
14 She would never mock it , he was certain of that , and he could not believe that she would be shocked , because she was far too experienced and sensible to waste energy on such a useless emotion ; but it would probably distress her , and she had enough distress to absorb without his adding to it .
15 As Pollitt notes ( 1986a , p. 165 ) ‘ a government can force its employees to go through the motions , but it can not mandate enthusiasm and commitment ’ .
16 But what will not ambition and revenge
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