Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'm sorry but where we went it was great |
| 2 | And for those who liked to go to the office every morning by the 8.15 there were class rooms and classes where nobody learnt very much but where everybody thought they were doing something . |
| 3 | These Rules may be disapplied by agreement in the case of non-private investors but where they apply they require that money is only held with certain approved banks and that the money in the account is , to the bank 's knowledge , a trust fund . |
| 4 | He remembered that Firelight had to feed it with milk , but where she kept it he had no idea . |
| 5 | But where I go I do n't need them . |
| 6 | So , but where I know it is a bit difficult with clothes because a market stall erm you do n't , you do n't normally get a chance to try the clothes on erm and you 're never absolutely sure are these clothes , is this garment going to fit or not ? |
| 7 | That , that 's open to the general public but where I stand you have to have a membership card to go in there now , and er you pay two pound before the season started and er local traders give you a discount and things erm it 's just one way of er segregating the supporters if you like , but there does n't seem to be so much trouble since they 've done this , but at the same time there does n't seem to be as much atmosphere |
| 8 | But it seems it 's not the hair which offends , but where you grow it . |
| 9 | But so we got it there . |
| 10 | This does not mean that the person needs necessarily to go faster , but that they organize their time more effectively . |
| 11 | A spokesman for the club said yesterday that the players realised the serious nature of their action , but that they wanted their fate in their own hands . |
| 12 | It is not that such people are necessarily ‘ inadequate ’ , but that they feel themselves to be inadequate . |
| 13 | The point about studies on non-human animals is not that they replace studies on humans but that they provide us with pointers to what we should study in people and how we should study it . |
| 14 | In fact what young children demand of us is not that we dilute the work , but that we make it more exciting , more tightly focused . |
| 15 | I feel that he is really saying not that he sees the cleverness and the artistic quality of the painting or the message in the paintings as might first be assumed , but that he understands what the church is doing , instead of helping the poor , it was showing the pictures to educate them about God . |
| 16 | There followed a time of uncertainty and bloodshed which was eventually resolved when the republic developed into an empire with Augustus as its first emperor from 27 B.C. The Augustan period from then until his death in A.D. 14 was one of the great and successful ages of man and , architecturally , this is reflected in the many great buildings which were erected under the auspices of Augustus whose boast was that when he came to Rome it was a city of bricks but that he left it a city of marble . |
| 17 | Florence of Worcester [ q.v. ] says Canute sent Edward and his brother Edmund to the Swedish king to be killed , but that he passed them to Hungary , where Edmund died and Edward married Agatha , daughter of the brother of an Emperor Henry . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He said that social security benefits , which are tied to movements in the Retail Price Index , would reflect the change , but that he recognised its particular impact on people with low incomes and therefore Peter Lilley would take it into account when benefits were uprated next year . |
| 20 | I think that a little bit apprehensive on things like that , and course when he saw Tony asked whether ga , whether he could go and Tony said no , I 'm sorry Doc but that he said I 've got my ponies and things there and I do n't want people shooting there ! |
| 21 | She had dared to hope he felt more than desire , but that he loved her … |
| 22 | Few there be , are there few that be saved , well what does the bible say about this , first of all it teaches abundantly clearly that all may be saved , God is not partial , God has no favourites , he does n't love you more than he loves any body else , he does n't love me more than he loves you or you more than me , he does n't love you more than he loves ah any other racial group or any other ethnic group , he loves us all the same God so loved the world that he gave his only son Jesus Christ , here in his love , not that we love God says the apostle but that he loved us , the old testament profit reminds us that he has loved us with an ever lasting love , who , this was one of the hang ups that the Jewish nation had , they thought that they were the cats whiskers , he chose them , but he in fact did n't love them any more than he loved the , the hitites , the parasites , the gergasites and all the other ites , he loved them all the same , God is not partial in his love because he is love , if there was any body that God did not love he would actually cease to be God because love is not something that , that God does , you and I do it no matter how loving you are , or how loving you think you are , you are not love , you choose to love somebody and you love them , there are times when that love goes very thin sometimes , perhaps because of events that have happened , it can actually come to an end where that love dies , you withdraw your love God ca n't do that , God loves us as we 've said with an eternal love , a love that will go on throughout the endless ages of eternity |
| 23 | It is not a matter of showing that he is entitled to have authority , but that he has it , that he is in authority , with all the consequences which follow from this fact . |
| 24 | By this I do not mean that he did no experiments , but that he explained his results by hypothesizing the existence of entities for which he had no direct evidence . |
| 25 | So , repression , it 's not that Freud dropped the concept of repression but that he elaborated it and made it much more sophisticated , and the mechanisms of defence are the means , you could say they 're the means by which er repression erm comes about . |
| 26 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |
| 27 | But that I raised it knowing you hate it . |
| 28 | Perhaps it was n't that loneliness chose me , but that I chose it , proudly wrapping myself in it , like a cloak against the pollution of the world . |
| 29 | But that I think they were |
| 30 | For the point is this : not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through the collective memory ; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen , that must happen . |