Example sentences of "but [Wh det] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faussone talks about ‘ the way we bent our elbows ’ — an expression ( for eating or drinking ) which I have heard spoken in English , but which I had never before seen written down in a book . |
| 2 | Can you give me any information , including availability and cost , of the Photon guitar synthesiser which is used to great effect by John McLauglin but which I have never seen advertised . |
| 3 | Another trick that I have learnt is for increasing the likelihood that I will actually get down to a job which is becoming urgent but which I do n't want to do . |
| 4 | But what I set out to do was to show the idiocy of his ideas by bouncing them against other ideas , some of them perhaps equally extreme and absurd . |
| 5 | But what I like best about Remembering Night are the clothes . |
| 6 | But what I had also noticed was that certain firms for example that w were er th then extant , er they in fact would s er say have a three-piece moved , and you 'd have a huge van would go to pick up a three-piece suite . |
| 7 | ‘ But what I got out of Jimi is the freedom on the guitar , to show how you feel at the time . |
| 8 | ‘ Jack told me so many things but what I remember most was him stressing that I should keep my energy and emotional levels the same throughout a round of golf . |
| 9 | Perhaps I discerned something they had in common , but what I saw chiefly was that they were different from me . |
| 10 | But what I saw earlier tonight was n't Christine Baldwin . |
| 11 | I have quoted these latter points at length because I can readily agree with them , and consider them important , but what I find politically weakening is the dichotomy between promoting socialist developments which do not depend on the existence of a socialist government and the stigmatised ‘ scheming ’ as to what such a government should do . |
| 12 | but what I find so interesting is because people talk nowadays as if it 's only recently women have had jobs erm |
| 13 | But what I have n't |
| 14 | And sh excuse me but what I do not want happening on records of achievement as regards cos we are totally honest and I could name a school not too far from us |
| 15 | I 'm not really worried about that , seeing as I was born in this country , but what I do n't understand is why they should doubt me . |
| 16 | ‘ But what I do n't understand , ’ he says , ‘ is exactly how it all … fits together . |
| 17 | ‘ But what I do n't understand , ’ says Howard later , with genuine humility , ‘ is how you know more about everything than I do . |
| 18 | ‘ But what I do n't understand , ’ he says to Phil , smiling conversationally , ‘ is what you 're doing here . ’ |
| 19 | But what I do n't like is that Hilary Frome seems to spend a lot of time with him . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But what I do n't understand is why she said none of this before . |
| 21 | ‘ But what I do n't understand is why he 's so damned angry about it ! ’ |
| 22 | Yeah but what I do n't know why it 's in there anyway . |
| 23 | But what I do n't understand is though why we have n't got an underground station at Stoke Newington and why Stoke Newington train station is n't linked up to Whitechapel . |
| 24 | But what I do n't understand is what is it for ? |
| 25 | But what I did n't know was he was a member of the local mafia and did n't want to see his chance of making a fortune disappear into thin air . |
| 26 | And anyway he he was one of the candidates , but what I did n't know at that time there was a real feud between the women and the men . |
| 27 | I did n't expect her to do so , but what I did n't know then was that she had a holiday cottage in Muker , which is not far over the hills in Swaledale , and one day she turned up with some friends of hers . |
| 28 | But what I did n't know , and what Control probably did n't know either , was that by then the DEA , as well as the terrorists , was gunning for me . |
| 29 | But what I did n't realize , and what has proved the gravest shock to me , is that Pietro is the worst of you all . |
| 30 | ‘ I always knew we could score from a set piece , but what I did not expect was to concede two from set-pieces , ’ reflected manager Nigel Best . |