Example sentences of "but [pron] can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People try to beat that misery with barbiturates , but nothing can cure it because you 've taken away from yourself all chance of feeling pleasure . |
| 2 | Other things may play their part in helping us to understand , but nothing can take its place . |
| 3 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 4 | It is rumoured to contain many answers but no-one can open it . ’ |
| 5 | But no-one can doubt his steel . |
| 6 | But I can show you , I can show you the eighth floor and show you where the gang where is the eighth floor ? |
| 7 | It 's probably one that picks up conversations in the room as well as just on the phone but I can show it to the boys at — ’ |
| 8 | He smiled a harsh smile and held her eyes as he told her , ‘ You may be able to offer Kirsty a comfortable single-parent home in London , but I can offer her a great deal more than that … ’ |
| 9 | I have n't got any cider , but I can offer you plenty of whisky . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The precise scale you ca n't quantify , but I can give you the parameters . |
| 11 | But I can give you some idea of general trends in your life . |
| 12 | The chalets are kept for groups , but I can give you a room in the house . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But I can give you a lift home . |
| 14 | And , we 're not in doing , not intend telling you at the er , proposals we will put in the budget , but I can give you an assurance at this point in time , that we shall be borrowing money . |
| 15 | But I can do what I want , so perhaps it is possible to use one or two frames of a timpani shot to realize a particular moment in the music . |
| 16 | But I can do it for you . |
| 17 | ‘ He proved today that he is very fast but I can tell him that tomorrow is not going to be so easy , ’ said Fittipaldi , who clocked 101.472mph . |
| 18 | My husband tries to be sympathetic , but I can tell his patience is running out . |
| 19 | Mark says that if it 's a fuel leak I can chuck down a lighted match , but I can tell he 's only joking . |
| 20 | ‘ Your generation just was n't educated , Pop , but I can tell you I hardly know anyone who does n't read French . |
| 21 | But I can tell you that Simon is well . |
| 22 | The world does funny things but I can tell you that 's the furthest thing from my mind at this point in time . |
| 23 | But I can tell you , no one shirked and discipline was strict . |
| 24 | • There 's no cut-and-dried answer to your question , but I can tell you that a great many people would disagree with you — both about your view of your own childhood and about smacking your children with a slipper . |
| 25 | Putting out a hand for him to shake , she added , ‘ It 's a bargain , but I can tell you now , that I shall never belong to anyone but my husband . ’ |
| 26 | You do not know Italian men yet , my dear , but I can tell you they are all — without exception — unbearably vain . |
| 27 | Anyway , you 'll say it 's none of my business , but I can tell you , you 'll go further and fare a lot worse . |
| 28 | But it would be very interesting if er you had a positive er proposal or something constructive to make which we might be able to examine , but I can tell you at the end of the day money is required and this government wo n't allow to spend er , the money that er we have got er er erm at the moment that we could , er use but they wo n't let us . |
| 29 | But I can tell you you 're wasting your efforts looking for Martin Bormann in South America . |
| 30 | I ca n't prove that lay readers enjoy books more than professional critics ; but I can tell you one advantage we have over them . |