Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Er … thanks for everything but I 've got to get these ladies some food . |
| 2 | I am going to be less particular , but I 've got to find some paper first . |
| 3 | I buy everything from him but I 've got to buy another tumble dryer erm I 've been drying clothes off in the house and the three men and all them well two of them wearing work wear jeans and the next one that comes in will be wearing jeans , it 's no go I just can not dry stuff off in the house , I 've just got to have a tumble . |
| 4 | You see but I 've had to have this run |
| 5 | And I said , well , you know , overall it 's gon na be what we said , you know I said , we I 've tried to meet your targets , I said , but I 've had to increase some up fart higher than others you know . |
| 6 | But I do want to stress that ‘ confusion ’ and ‘ defence ’ are two of the key words in anorexia nervosa , and that the disease could serve as an illustration of Lomas 's belief , being a process in which the two concepts are inseparable and mutually reinforcing . |
| 7 | I certainly would not want to attempt a summary of the route we have taken all the way from the mind-body problem to children trying to win chocolates ; but I do need to make some concluding comments to justify the bold claim in the first paragraph that constructivism makes the mind-body problem less intractable . |
| 8 | I could hardly refuse , but I did refuse to take any payment , although I really needed the money . |
| 9 | Kevin would either lock into it or he 'd miss , but you 've got to let these people do what they do and if it does n't work , it does n't work . ’ |
| 10 | You could kill him , I suppose , but you 've got to remember this : if you do , what you have to do next is ruffle up your hair and mess up your garments and appear howling and all distressed at your local nick , saying you do n't know what came over you . |
| 11 | But you 've got to get some years in to get a really good pension , but I 've got thirteen and the maximum you can get is forty years but you get , then get two thirds of the salary you would have got , |
| 12 | mine wrapped up he said I 'll take you over but you 've got to have all your presents wrapped up , I said yeah alright . |
| 13 | You 'd be stupid to go across the stepping stones if you did n't have the power to jump from one to the other , pretty big , but the , so are the distances between them and at that time of the year the river was pretty high too and r rather boisterous , so it would n't be very pleasant if you had fallen in , but you 've got to have that but you 've also got to have stamina as you said , but it would n't have been any fun if you 'd got halfway across and your stamina had run out , then fire brigade called out , the fire brigade or something . |
| 14 | But you 've got to have that peace of mind to be able to do that . |
| 15 | But you 've got to have those caravan , those vents because the van is so small and you 've got gas supplied . |
| 16 | Check the er , but you 've got to have some way , I believe , of measuring what 's going on . |
| 17 | Legally , you do not have to maintain 500 ft between you and the sea ; but you do have to keep that distance between you and any vessel on the sea . |
| 18 | But you do have to make this nomination whilst you are employed in reckonable service . |
| 19 | ‘ It might not be popular with the fans but we 've got to do that to keep our noses in front . |
| 20 | ‘ Everybody 's saying our game against Spain next month is the big one but we 've got to win this one first and get the job done . ’ |
| 21 | Maybe it 's late , but we 've come to know each other , and , you know , I do n't feel lonely any more over there . ’ |
| 22 | But we have managed to get another car booked with another firm . |
| 23 | But we have had to do those things . |
| 24 | That wo n't be popular , but we have got to use less and conserve more . |
| 25 | ‘ Firefighting has traditionally been a male preserve but we do expect to see more women joining our ranks , ’ said a brigade spokesman . |
| 26 | ‘ But we do have to take this condition seriously and get it under control . ’ |
| 27 | Erm , and so , but we do need to do that , and I believe the work that you have been doing erm , I do n't know when that 's to be published , er , but will I 'm sure assist us in developing the criteria which will help voluntary organisations to decide what they properly should be doing . |
| 28 | So what we actually are possibly seeing is ourselves coming out of the trough so therefore part of it 's a training curve , but we do need to see that training curve start to come down and get back on to a level but we do n't know where the level is , that 's what worries us at this stage . |
| 29 | There had never been any warmth between the women , but they had learnt to respect each other , and Sarah had become accomplished at running the house . |
| 30 | But they 've failed to find any suspects . |