Example sentences of "but [pron] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But everyone is in that position . ’ |
| 2 | The German countess then began to speak , but I was at this point , for some reason I do not recollect , obliged to leave the drawing room for an extended period . |
| 3 | Investing all this hope in a girl I hardly knew was , in retrospect , highly dangerous , but I was in that sort of a mood . |
| 4 | But I 'm through that now . |
| 5 | ‘ I wanted to tell you the morning you left , but you were in such a hurry to be gone and — ’ |
| 6 | Bert Head brought many fine footballers to the Palace from north of the border but none was of more value to the Palace than Tony . |
| 7 | Jenny let them spin on for a while ; but she was above all things a sensible girl and had no desire to find herself irretrievably stuck . |
| 8 | But she was on this chair so when I came back cos she , I sat over there . |
| 9 | But she was in such a hurry that she just could n't stay for long enough to help me with breastfeeding Stephen . |
| 10 | Marguerite was not exactly a motherly woman , but she was in some way comfortable . |
| 11 | They are writers who have parted company , but who are in some ways at one . |
| 12 | I was the goodie and he was n't exactly the baddie , but we were against each other all the time . |
| 13 | ‘ But we were in some trees , and so — ’ He made a motion with one finger across his throat . |
| 14 | So far in Freud 's argument we are only concerned with a descriptive statement , albeit one with many theoretical overtones , but there is at this point no assertion about the genesis of this hostility , or about the degree to which it is innate , or produced by the way humans are reared , or by the interaction of the two . |
| 15 | Not only have many such parties appeared on the scene during the present century — the communist parties and anti-colonial parties such as the Indian National Congress — but there is in all socialist parties ( as well as in some right-wing parties , such as the fascist parties of the 1920s ) a persistent element of non-participating opposition . |
| 16 | Perhaps he was wearing his customary flat cap and voluminous raincoat , but there is in any case something highly appropriate about this scene of forlornness and dampness ; the picture of Eliot in a prospect of drizzle evokes a quality in the man himself . |
| 17 | But there was in any case no doubt that the areas of the family , education , and public morality constituted part of the sacred sphere . |
| 18 | They overlap but they 're to some extent slightly different criteria . |
| 19 | There are others he did n't buy and wants to unload , like Tony Cottee who cost £2.2m , but they 're on such big contracts other clubs ca n't afford their wages . |
| 20 | I du n no what it is but they 're about that long and about that round and then they got this trigger like you similar what you do on the Vax hold the trigger . |
| 21 | ‘ But they 're in this with us . ’ |
| 22 | No , the the well some of them are , those particular ones some of them are joined but they are to all intents and purposes separate in that they can be er , rented out separately they 're not tied to the house erm in that they are they go with it but the housing department have the opportunity to rent them to whoever applies for them . |
| 23 | The posts may not necessarily be particularly lucrative ( regius professorships are worth £100 a year , religiously paid in quarterly £25 cheques ) , but they are at some of the pinnacles of national life , they open doors and they command respect . |
| 24 | Most of them are indeed trying to pull the ‘ off with the old , on with the new ’ wife replacement technique but they are in such an emotional mess that they subconsciously drive away any woman who tries to get close to them . |
| 25 | During the bad weather we experienced a few disasters and events , but they were of little consequence . |
| 26 | But they were on this bonus system you know , they were you know on the bonus but they were n't quarry men . |
| 27 | But he 's in such a bad mood at the moment . |
| 28 | But he 's like that , I 'm afraid . |
| 29 | Of course Oswald Mosley , our own exponent of Fascism , went a bit far in that direction , but he was worth some support if he stuck to the Mile End Road and did n't provoke clashes in such cherished halls of entertainment as Olympia and the Albert Hall . |
| 30 | but he was like that with it |