Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I ca n't Nana , the river too high just now . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | But you ca n't sort of turn round to Hannah and say Hannah , you 've got B O ! |
| 5 | understand the meaning behind the sentence but you could n't word for word . |
| 6 | So it 's not engaged , but you can still camp on to their handset , basically the computer , tell them when it 's next used . |
| 7 | But she could not distance herself from her friend 's tragedy . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |