Example sentences of "[noun] but [pron] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm should she pack up her Saturday job , it pays around twenty pound and it will go up to about twenty five , and Sue and Will sat and talked about it and she got , she 's surprising been interviewed for the W R A F but I mean that 's not gon na be so easy these days , I mean they 're gon na take the exceptionals that they need are n't they ? |
| 2 | ‘ She 'd give you a hand with anything that needed doing , from packing , invoicing , cutting and laying to choosing and mixing colours ; she was n't keen on the administration side but she did that too , ’ Meirion recalled . |
| 3 | He had seen her fall with his own eyes but he doubted any other witness would have disagreed with the description . |
| 4 | I was gon na clean my tank tonight Jean but I suppose that 's |
| 5 | It could do good but it does more bad |
| 6 | I do not remember whether we enlivened the day with a penny ride on a donkey round the White Stone pond but I regarded these donkeys with the respect and admiration rarely afforded by the keenest jockey for his mount and one of my day-dreams ( only once realised and then somehow a little disappointing ) was to save up three weeks ' pocket money and have a 3d ride in place of a Id one , which took you for at least a hundred yards along the Spaniards Road . |
| 7 | I says no I 'm his brother-in-law but I know all his details and I said , he was n't here ! |
| 8 | The heating was on inside the car but it did little to drive out the chill that seemed to have settled in her bones . |
| 9 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 10 | ‘ He 's had trouble with campers , who 've broken down his fences and left fires that have caused a lot of damage — not Guides or Scouts , of course , who you know are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks but he puts all campers together and calls them all nuisances . ’ |
| 11 | In the last section we have come to the interesting conclusion that B may alone exist of all our variables but we reached that conclusion on a magnet shape not much used in practice . |
| 12 | Weber admits that a common market situation may provide a basis for collective class action but he sees this only as a possibility . |
| 13 | The Me if he had a Metro now he 'd , you 'd get a better deal but they said that |
| 14 | I mentioned erm benefits of er of exempt income and I showed er a feature with this and I apologize that the fact that 's it 's TESSA but I do this with TESSA because it 's the one way that you can illustrate the point I want to make . |
| 15 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 16 | laughter so that by the time we came to do the five practical ev exercises you know everybody was in a very relaxed and jolly mood but I think that 's was it 's about but from the results that we were getting from the practical exercises clearly what he said had taken root you know roll key words , roll them around in your mind er try running through letters of the alphabet to match up with your key word chains and you know if if if the word is ball try roll see if you can get it to rhyme and ultimately the creme de la creme is if you can actually get the title of a song or |
| 17 | ‘ I still enjoy going to racing at Croft circuit but I think this year 's trip to the Isle of Man will be my swan song , ’ he said . |
| 18 | D. Farms are smaller than those of East Anglia but they use more labour . |
| 19 | We 'd rubbish each other in the columns but they ring each other up and scream with laughter . |
| 20 | ‘ People are often complaining about the council but I think this time they deserve some praise . ’ |
| 21 | I wondered if my master knew something about my tryst with Mathilda but he had that distant , innocent expression . |
| 22 | It is perhaps asking too much to exact sympathy when one has killed a king and bedded his queen but he deserved all the accolades he received . |
| 23 | No , it was n't a conventional marriage but we gave each other what a lot of married people do n't : freedom . |
| 24 | This is essentially a digging tool but it has another function I have always found particularly useful . |
| 25 | He would n't be able to you know , okay he 'd probably potter about on a restoration job but I mean that 's not |
| 26 | He might well have formed his own opinion but he knew that would not bear cross-examination at some later date . |
| 27 | The win took the Republic back up to second place in the Group behind Spain on goal difference but they had enough chances to close the six-goal gap on the pace-setters . |
| 28 | ‘ They were taken to hospital for examination but none suffered any real injury . |
| 29 | Some players hate anything but perfectly even-grained tops on acoustic guitars but I think this one only adds character . |
| 30 | No well that 's that 's a debateable that 's a debateable point but I think that would that is the policy of the board . |