Example sentences of "but [pron] be [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nay , ’ said the victor courteously , ‘ but I am in yours . ’ |
| 2 | " But I 'm for it . " |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't like this job until this talk with you , John , ’ said the young seaman , ‘ but I 'm with you now . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It sounds a bit idealistic , ’ remarked David , ‘ but I 'm with you one hundred per cent . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It did shake me up , but I 'm over it now . ’ |
| 6 | But someone is onto you . |
| 7 | Till May came and the day came When she wore 'em down to Shoreham , But nobody was for 'em So she wore 'em nevermore … |
| 8 | But you are in you ca n't recall . |
| 9 | But you was with it all the War , even before the War , and then when the War came , and of course you 've got a fair amount when the War came on you see . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ It 's crazy , but she 's worth it . |
| 11 | But she 's worth it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ But who is behind it ? ’ |
| 13 | What I really want is to meet someone who I can have a bit of fun with , but who is in it for the pleasure and does n't want paying . |
| 14 | The plot centres around an aristocratic sportsman who in turn becomes the subject of a manhunt : he is alone against the world , but we are with him through every breathless paragraph . |
| 15 | Spokesman Sylvia Rigby said : ‘ They seem to think we are only objecting to the level of the charge but we are against it all together . ’ |
| 16 | But there is in us another level of being which lies deeper than knowing or acting , and it is at that further depth that the genuine religious impulse arises and lives . |
| 17 | Because , although Jesus was speaking to the people there , his words were not just for them , but they 're for us as well and these are conversations that we can well eavesdrop on and learn something , I 'm sure , for our benefit . |
| 18 | But if it 's a bolt that holds a lamppost down and they 've under under-ordered , there 's not , but they 're with them , then we can take those . |
| 19 | But they 're above us on cos our goal average must look absolutely diabolical now . |
| 20 | ‘ Aye , dad , but they 're like him sort of , are n't they ? ’ |
| 21 | Oh I would n't he might be to you but he 's worth it to us . |
| 22 | Not for much longer but he 's with me now . |
| 23 | But he 's like you , he 's got the talent but nothing to say . ’ |
| 24 | But he was behind her now , his hand heavy on the nape of her neck . |
| 25 | His ankles clicked , his knees snapped , but he was after it , past crosses , round tombs , over mounds . |
| 26 | But he was against it . |
| 27 | In that , he was like Wallace and like Norman Lockyer , the first editor of Nature ; but he was unlike them in that he went on to become President of the Royal Society , at the time of the First World War . |
| 28 | He lacked the Boswellian charm , to say nothing of the genius , of the Italian , but he was in his alternately gay and lugubrious way better company than Mitford had suggested . |
| 29 | Not his case , but he was in it himself , stuck like a fly . |
| 30 | You will have to be organised or you 'll never find anything but it is worth it . |