Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not mean that the person needs necessarily to go faster , but that they organize their time more effectively . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But once he gets his hands all oiled up , he 's a whizz at refreshing your players ' tired muscles . |
| 6 | But although she opened her mouth to make it quite clear to her infuriating parent that she was not , never would be , and never wanted to even think about being in love with Luke Hunter , somehow the words would n't come . |
| 7 | One of the officials with whom I had dealings was John Hampden , who years later was to become a colleague ; but although he did his best to be co-operative , it was the men who held the purse-strings that counted , and , going between the MOI and Faber 's , I could not extract from officialdom any commitment and Eliot naturally needed certain specific undertakings regarding finance before Faber 's could think of commissioning a book , which also needed the Ministry 's imprimatur . |
| 8 | In 1941 he stood as an independent candidate in four by-elections ; but although he retained his deposit on each occasion , there was to be no political comeback for this highly cantankerous patriot . |
| 9 | that 's true but and they like their cup of tea they 've never had a cup of tea |
| 10 | ‘ We 'll fight them , but if we get your ship back for you , you must take me back to England . ’ |
| 11 | But if we change our own scarcity belief , so that money flows more freely into our own lives , we have reduced — by one — the number of people in the world who struggle over money ; and we might choose to use some of our wealth to help others — not out of guilt , but out of love . |
| 12 | But if we lower our ‘ poverty line ’ , we will at the same time reduce the number of poor people , and if we raise it , we will increase the number . |
| 13 | But if we improve our system , we can use it . |
| 14 | ‘ But if we have our way , we would be playing the bulk of our home games on a Friday evening , when they do not clash with either Liverpool or Everton . |
| 15 | But if we convert our traders into stock-jobbers , who is to carry on the commerce of the kingdom ? |
| 16 | But if they follow their usual form they will do nothing , because they are prepared to accept medieval barbarity rather than strain trade relations . ’ |
| 17 | But if they changed their portfolio balance , they would have lost out on this upturn , ’ said . |
| 18 | You could be James Bond , he thought , but if something had your number on it … |
| 19 | But if I use my words it follows that I have changed your meaning , however slightly … |
| 20 | I have had the same trouble now and again , but if I control my jaw when I yawn it does not happen so much . |
| 21 | But if I restrict my input to integers |
| 22 | And she said , ‘ George Dionisovich , at the moment I do n't want to sell them , but if I change my mind I 'll let you know ’ . |
| 23 | But if I know our Emily , she 'll have found some way of getting out of City Europe . |
| 24 | But if I take my five grand back : what difference ? |
| 25 | After all , if she loses her job , things may be difficult , but if I lose my job we can not pay the mortgage . |
| 26 | I did n't approve of what he was doing , but if I refused his money I would be more and more visible , so I took it , and when he had gone off in relief back towards the dining car I gave it to the barman . |
| 27 | The windows were obscured by curtains , but if I strained my eyes I thought I could make out the shadow of a figure standing behind them , never moving . |
| 28 | But if she restrained her imagination and waited until he showed his hand , surely the misunderstanding could be cleared up and they could part as friends ? she thought forlornly . |
| 29 | But if she takes her job too seriously , and acts in this way towards her own children at home , she will lose the intimacy of the relationship and seem a very impersonal and unkind mother . |
| 30 | Weakly she willed him not to , but if he sensed her resistance he ignored it , his mouth tantalising her with its warm desirability . |