Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] at the [noun sg] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked . |
| 2 | Rebels stopped him at the airport but his whereabouts were not known last night . |
| 3 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 4 | I did n't know it at the time but a greater blow awaited me A few days later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again . |
| 5 | She says I 've seen him at the shop but he did n't speak . |
| 6 | She says I 've seen him at the shop but he did n't speak . |
| 7 | She says I 've seen him at the shop but he did n't speak . |
| 8 | She says I 've seen him at the shop but he did n't speak . |
| 9 | I did n't realize it at the time but I think it wants |
| 10 | It was a thoroughly tested number as Tiller had not only shown it at the Palace but his La Scala Girls had also performed it at the Winter Gardens Pavilion , Blackpool , the previous year . |
| 11 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |
| 12 | The plonker does n't actually know how to operate it at the moment but he will once he 's passed his night school exams . |