Example sentences of "[pron] for the [noun sg] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | and sharpened up with typical 20th-century cynicism by the American lyricist Stephen Sondheim : I 've got those " God why do n't you love me , oh you do I 'll see you later " blues , That " long as you ignore me , you 're the only thing that matters " feeling , That " if I 'm good enough for you , you 're not good enough " And " thank you for the present but what 's wrong with it ? " stuff . |
| 2 | Then , if you like , you can do a little pantomime routine where you look behind you for the ghost but it follows you around until you finally find it , and then you can do a brief activity with the ghost , like walk around the room in ‘ follow my leader ’ style or sing a song such as ‘ My kneebone 's connected to my thigh bone ’ . |
| 3 | You can bring notes with you for the talk but you should avoid reading them to your audience . |
| 4 | As you know erm we , we take the money here we do n't charge you for the talk but we give ten percent back to your W I so it 's a self funding situation . |
| 5 | Each frequency required two plug-in crystals , one for the transmitter and one for the receiver but at the push of a button it self-turned . |
| 6 | The battle , he wrote , ‘ is not one for the future but is on NOW … |
| 7 | He decided to leave this one for the moment but logged the fact that Jennifer Morgan had still been interested in , and comfortable with , the man who had become her sister 's fiancé . |
| 8 | If he himself has not paid for them then the person who sold him the goods will be able to sue him for the price but will have lost any chance of recovering the goods . |
| 9 | City of London magistrates fined him for the refusal but ruled he could keep his licence . |
| 10 | I braced myself for the explosion but luckily it went between the wheels . |