Example sentences of "but [pron] [be] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , but I am Alice . |
| 2 | I 'm not sure how long wills take to prove , but I was Aunt Emily 's only living relative , and it 's always been understood that the place would come to me . |
| 3 | But I 'm Jessel , and I have Jessel 's life to lead . |
| 4 | No but you 're Dorset as well ! |
| 5 | ‘ But you were Mrs Darcy 's school friend . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But you were Mr Russell 's only child , my dear , and you must not doubt that he loved you , even if he did n't always make it perfectly apparent . ’ |
| 7 | Confusingly , a Gould is in charge of Smith 's campaign office at the House of Commons , but she 's Jeanette Gould , the daughter of Joyce Gould of Walworth Road fame ( and Keith Barron MP 's assistant ) . |
| 8 | But she was Mrs Love . |
| 9 | Please forgive my lack of knowledge but who is Victor Meldrew ? |
| 10 | But who is Lady Selvedge , after all ? ’ she asked on a note of challenge . |
| 11 | On The Tonight Show , Johnny Carson did a whole monologue on the theme of , ‘ yes , but who is Cameron Nielson the Second ? ’ |
| 12 | But who was Snookums ? |
| 13 | But who was Wallis ? |
| 14 | But we are Yek now . ’ |
| 15 | I thought that , and I 'm not an expert in but I thought this was a penetrating critique and all goes well for how the department is handling in a very difficult starting situation , a most important matter but there is Mr spoke to me about this paper and er I think we will have to hear what Mr had to say , I do n't know who 's going to report that . |
| 16 | But there are Bishop 's Stortford ones too . |
| 17 | The capital city , Jakarta , accounts for around 40 per cent of the Indonesian market but there are Guinness drinkers on many of the 13,677 islands in the archipelago and they also need to be served . |
| 18 | But there 's Ralph to consider . |
| 19 | But there 's Salome to think of , Tel , do n't forget her , because I wo n't . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We 've a room between us , ’ said Ginnie , ‘ but there 's Sophie . ’ |
| 21 | I thought ‘ oh no , not all the way back to the east end of London and risk my car being smashed to bits ’ , but there was Jim and Paul Simpson on the left , dazzling , running rings around those irons . |
| 22 | But there was Dottie and James and Addy and I 'd be sure to think of some others . |
| 23 | But there was Meg , and he knew his sister , her wrath , should she find out ; he was reluctant to escape . |
| 24 | But there was Jake too , and Adam , and her mother … |
| 25 | But there was Cara . |
| 26 | But there was Dinah ; how would he support her when he could barely support himself ? |
| 27 | But there was Hyacinth Scragg . |
| 28 | Not that one cared too much about the feelings of pompous , over-bearing Rodney Shergold but there was Eleanor to consider . |
| 29 | A new Herriot ( in this case Every Living Thing , published by Michael Joseph ) does not need to be torn to pieces on the book page of the Times , but there was Robert Crampton trying to make a reputation for himself : ‘ James Herriot did for the Yorkshire Dales in the seventies what Peter Mayle did for the hills of Provence in the eighties . |
| 30 | But there was Anthea to contend with first . |