Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I am filled with remorse , loathing and longing , because I love my wife and children but I remain attracted to this girl and ca n't get her out of my mind . |
| 2 | Now I am filled with remorse , loathing and longing , because I love my wife and children but I remain attracted to this girl and ca n't get her out of my mind . |
| 3 | If you carried it too green , erm I ca n't remember that happening to our but I 've heard of some people , having to cut a shaft down into the stack you know . |
| 4 | Right there 's erm it 's a tin of fruit salad but I 've put in some er kiwi and grapes so it 's fresh fruit , it 's in its own juice , so it 's not in a heavy thick juice , there 's Viennetta or you can have a bit of each |
| 5 | No it was nice now but I had to sit like that with my arms up my sleeves . |
| 6 | ‘ I wanted to run away , to hide , but I had to return to this lonely , meaningless place . ’ |
| 7 | But I say I believe in in one respect alright , she 's got the car she can whip in and out but I do believe in another respect she 's got to the point where she ca n't be bothered ! |
| 8 | If people told me that was all well and good but if they did n't , but I did hear about this erm er she did the operation on the girl who er who could n't get rid of her baby , and then it , she lo she sent she sent a telegram to her husband or a letter er it took a long while to come from the Far East , he was in the Far East . |
| 9 | There was a deal of euphoria after the first night , the success of the missions , a certain element of surprise , but I did say at that time that we 'd be foolish to lower our guard , because erm there was still a lot of work to do , and that is exactly what it 's turning out to be , and we 're going for his military installations , and he 's got a lot of them , and it 's a wearing down process . |
| 10 | But I want to listen to these accents . |
| 11 | ‘ But I want to stress to all parents : Do n't be complacent . ’ |
| 12 | And we know there are various er responses to that question , and I would be looking to the districts to say whether or not they could cope with the various levels of provision that have been identified for Greater York , and it 's the view of whether they can cope within their own districts , I have n't said how you can cope , I said whether you can cope , you might I will I will leave you free to make the odd comment , but I want to focus on that part of the issue , and then the natural corollary to that is , will it be necessary , or is it considered necessary in the context of this alteration to provide specific guidance within H One policy for the distribution of that er development to er at sub , what I would call sub-district level , in other words do you want a specific entry for say Ryedale or Hambledon ? |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I 'm not sayin' I believe it , mind , but I want to know about that happy-birthday message . |
| 14 | I do not intend to list all the normal things Excel can do — just take it for granted that you will be able to set up a spreadsheet to calculate whatever you want to — but I want to concentrate on some of the features that will certainly save time , effort , and head scratching . |
| 15 | ‘ He will be out of prison in three years but I have to live with this , ’ she said . |
| 16 | The best thing to bring it all out , would be to write in my own African language , but I have to write in another language . |
| 17 | ‘ But you kept going to these Anglo-Catholic geezers ? ’ |
| 18 | Maybe not today , but you 've lost at some stage in the future when you least need to lose . |
| 19 | But you had to get past that first because Bill was always frightened of somebody , perhaps , trying to get the better of him . |
| 20 | Certainly , people are seduced and abandoned by the media , by its lush images — but you have to deal with that , infiltrate ideas in , give people back their vertebrae . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Leading can be uncomfortable sometimes , but you have to deal with that to win . |
| 22 | ‘ The rumours flew about Craig Short of Notts County joining us for over 2m but you have to live with that kind of rumour these days at Rovers . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd love to speak languages but you have to live in another country for a certain amount of time and in this job you have to get up and go , so I have n't had much chance to spend time abroad . |
| 24 | Yeah but you did say on that base oh well you pay tax but obviously you must do as well then |
| 25 | She knew from the frequent worried glances the other woman sent in her direction that Candy had seen through the act , but she 'd managed with some effort to avoid her , always finding some pretext to disappear in the opposite direction whenever Candy appeared on the horizon . |
| 26 | Kerry 's hair had been recently cut but she decided to go for another snip when she arrived at the studio . |
| 27 | ‘ They made us chase shadows for long spells but we had to go after this game and that situation was tailor-made for Spartak , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Things may change now but we 've working on that basis |
| 29 | Well firstly the bill did n't have that rough a passage in the House of Lords , because there are only two basic amendments , er that we 're dealing with in the House of Commons that matter , and one of them is the one you 've just mentioned , the answer to it is this , er I 've had a lot of criticisms of giving B R the untrammelled right to bid , er right from the outset their criticisms to do with the danger that you would n't get competition for the franchises the private sector would be afraid , and incidentally this is not a sell off it 's it 's a way of getting the private sector into British Rail with all the advantages that brings , they would be afraid that they would face subsidized and unfair competition , above all , perhaps , British Rail ge=management would feel if they were bidding against their employer that would be a real discouragement to bid , and we 've a lot of evidence er that they feel that and that there are many who do wish to bid in management/employee buy outs , so what we 've done in the amendment is we 've preserved the right for British Rail to bid , but we 've dealt with those criticisms and worries which have come from a lot of quarters not least from within British Rail itself . |
| 30 | But we have to continue with that . |