Example sentences of "but [pron] be [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am sorry to disturb you , Abu , ’ said Owen , ‘ but there are things I would know . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't , but there are things I have to do at home . ’ |
| 3 | Please , I 'm asking you to give me your blind trust and it 's unfair of me , but there are things I ca n't bring myself to confess just yet . |
| 4 | " There are other things more unkind , but it is time I went . " |
| 5 | They are warm and but it 's colour I do n't know whether I perhaps if I saw cream again this year I might buy it but erm I 'm not sure that I want to when this deep orangy colour . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , you 're better-looking , Connie , but it 's Archie I 'd like to have a word with , ’ said Joe . |
| 7 | I 've always tried to happen to life ; but it 's time I let life happen to me . |
| 8 | ‘ I hate to break your heart , but it 's time I was on my way . ’ |
| 9 | But it 's Brian I would like to see . |
| 10 | ‘ But it 's Alice I 'm thinking of , sir , ’ Harry argued . |
| 11 | This I could have done from the Royal College — but it was Oxford I wanted — and to go to Somerville where I had a friend who told me about it . |
| 12 | Well it was a kind of fur coat but it was rabbit I think , it was . |
| 13 | But it was evergreens I can mind mother making them . |