Example sentences of "[pers pn] at [noun] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Helloooo — I 'm sorry to ring you at home but I represent the High Hills Park Golf Course and Leisurama Centre and we 'd like you to open our new Theme Park and Sub-Aqua Scuba Centre . |
| 2 | PS I told Nero you 'd meet him at Dover but I should leave your chariot behind he might not understand if you cut him in two , he 's funny that way . |
| 3 | His wife cares for him at home but this is very demanding and she finds that she needs regular breaks . |
| 4 | In Cable v Dallaturca ( 1977 ) 121 SJ 795 , the defendant who deliberately withheld an expert 's report was given leave to call him at trial but was deprived of half the costs of the hearing . |
| 5 | The mother also agreed to place a small plate of Ben 's favourite food ( chunks of cheese and pieces of apple ) in front of him at meal-times but then not to watch him eat by getting on with a job in the kitchen . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's not suffered any leg problems since then and I wanted to run him at Newcastle but he was a little flat in November . |
| 7 | There was a letter from George Langley , from Cambridge , waiting for her at Bishopstow but somehow it did not interest her , she could hardly be bothered to open it . |
| 8 | A quick examination put her at ease but may have done little for her embarrassment ; the culprit was a misplaced liquorice all-sort . |
| 9 | I did mention it at lectures but . |
| 10 | The Torygraph is OK — we get it at home but it 's just too London , Sum biased , but then again what is n't these days . |
| 11 | We cleared it at night but you could see the spray smashing up against the cliffs — it was a pretty narrow escape . |
| 12 | I mean you liked it at night but I mean we 've got people right but some Friday nights we 've only got them in that bar . |
| 13 | I , I liked it at college but I 'm glad I went just one day a week because |
| 14 | No I ca n't er , I ca n't tell you that I did definitely , although I , I 've heard a lot of them at times but er , I 'm not sure . |
| 15 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 16 | There was a ten-ton truck supposed to be waiting for us at Dili but it was n't there . |