Example sentences of "but [pron] be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not a full man , and nothing can ever alter that ; but I am me , and I regard that as compensation enough . |
| 2 | And Chesterton says , I am what is wrong , not with the whole wide world , but I am what is wrong with my world . |
| 3 | I hate it , but I am somebody . |
| 4 | But I am myself an agent ; there remains the question of how I make my own decisions . |
| 5 | But I am yours now , are n't I ? |
| 6 | ‘ But I am your guest ! |
| 7 | ‘ He may be the head of this house but I am your mother and I 'm in charge of you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But I am your Queen — no one tells me what to do . |
| 9 | But I am you know — I am alien , other , under this façade . |
| 10 | He is not my brother but I am his keeper . |
| 11 | But I am his murderer ! ’ |
| 12 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 13 | But I was one now , fused for a preternatural purpose . |
| 14 | Ultimately , I decided that this was not getting us anywhere , but I was her last hope . |
| 15 | The dashing major declared : ‘ I have heard rumours but I was her riding tutor — and that was all . ’ |
| 16 | I also had a company pension but I was what , in the pensions trade , is called an ‘ early leaver ’ . |
| 17 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 18 | Well I was very reluctant to put in for this job , I did n't want to really , but I was you know people said , Put in for it , you wo n't get it if you put in . |
| 19 | Well I was going to but I was I was hoping to get some news on er summer cruise cos I 'm gon na do a whole sales department down in swops and changes first |
| 20 | ‘ But I was your friend , ’ he pointed out , a little desperately . |
| 21 | Yeah , but I was your |
| 22 | But I were I were upset about that , you know . |
| 23 | I 'll do whatever 's necessary , but I 'm nobody 's fool . |
| 24 | We think back to the antihero of Notes from Underground lamenting that he ca n't even call himself a lazy man , and we think sideways to Svidrigailov : ‘ Believe me , if only I were something ; a landowner , say , or a father , a cavalry officer , a photographer , a journalist say — but I 'm nothing , I 've no speciality . ’ |
| 25 | One of their products was erm you , when you see in the cars th th that they can er make them open top and they close the backs down , there 's a bracket on the side that er hinges up and well they used to special you know , it had come from the landaus of the horse drawn vehicle , the same sort of thing , well they used to specialize in that and they used to make some kind of locks but I 'm I have never talked to anybody that worked there so I , I do n't know , but that 's the only other one as I , as I 'm aware of er was the , was Wilks 's and er Bloxwich Lock . |
| 26 | But I 'm I 'm not here to teach you how to do the pitch . |
| 27 | But I 'm I I I 'm not sure what relevance it is , I mean is this some procedure that it 's got to be reduced into writing ? |
| 28 | Now the first disappointment in that respect was the appointment Now I may be wrong but I 'm I 'm I 'm s I think I 'm right here the appointment of the chairman of the railway executive , that 's what it was first called . |
| 29 | Erm , going to somehow , at the moment we 're thinking of well Jean 'll wan na do it , but I 'm I 'm thinking of doing some kind of I mean , we 're agreed on what we 're gon na do , but it 's how we do it , I want some ka er , some kind of grilling around the top , the cocktail bar area , so you can open it as a , as a bar , and it 'll have a sort of atmosphere in itself , so we open that as a pub type of thing , you know . |
| 30 | Yes , but I 'm I think I 'm gon na go drama class . |