Example sentences of "[noun prp] but [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum said how about renting one in Wisbech but I said well if she ca n't afford a mortgage you ca n't afford to rent one . |
| 2 | Scottish police found them in a women 's refuge in Inverness but they disappeared again and may now be in London a city Mrs Ivory knows and likes . |
| 3 | She wanted details about Pascoe but he offered only that the man had been found dead at home . |
| 4 | Erm , they had been discovered by Mendel but they remained more or less unnoticed until the beginning of this century , when they were independently rediscovered . |
| 5 | Although I have Well I 've come through two wars and I remember the relief of Mathaking but I 'd sooner that I 've was born when I was . |
| 6 | That was at Newcastle , where he faded to be fourth to Mazmoor but it turned out that he had hit a hurdle or two and cut his legs badly . |
| 7 | Bilbo , Frodo 's uncle once had the opportunity to kill Gollum but he did not and Frodo questions this , however Gandalf answers , ‘ It was Pity that stayed his hand , Pity and Mercy : not to strike without need ’ . |