Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] but " in BNC.

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1 But Forest manager Clough , already upset with his team 's disappointing start , yesterday declared : ‘ Both players have been to see me about new contracts but they 're not getting them .
2 The shame of it is we have the capacity to provide them with that peace but we 've decided it is n't worth it . ’
3 He he said you 're one person I can talk to , you listen to me and I can talk to you and er he did n't want to worry you at that time but for him , he did n't think he was suitable .
4 ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels .
5 Er perhaps it is impossible to answer it in this forum but I think it remains an open question sir .
6 You had different , different companies do the , do the job so you used to get say I mean th you get a receiver for that cargo , well it , perhaps he got so much for receiving that cargo , then that was his job then to allocate it to different people but he , cos that was another job for him which you do n't do now .
7 The worker , at the time , is not able to interrupt the woman to help her with that problem but after she leaves the bureau the adviser feels extremely worried about it .
8 he tries to do it with one finger but he 's just not quite strong enough
9 Now in order to make a prediction of what say what 's going to happen this year I would have to know the state of the system of the ocean and the atmosphere on January first and in order to do that in an ideal world I would have a tremendous amount of data about the ocean and about the atmosphere and be able to put it into this model but this data , by and large , does n't exist .
10 Sorry to wake you at this hour but we 've had a host of tasks during the night .
11 This pistol was so heavy that he could not , of course , stick it in his belt ; it was all he could do to lift it with both hands But he had been so enthusiastic about it that he had willingly gone through the laborious loading of its honeycomb of barrels , one after another , and now it was ready to wreak destruction .
12 Very difficult to quantify them at this stage but certainly it 's it 's my advice that er there will be distinct improvements in the environment .
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