Example sentences of "[adj] but [pron] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 2 | No I ca n't and can I tell you , I 'm not being funny but I think that 's actually maybe quite important , I know this is not the in doubt visually impaired people but |
| 3 | One of my favourite presidents , Theodore Roosevelt , president from the early part of the twentieth century and known as the damned cowboy erm you might be interested to know how people become president erm Theodore Roosevelt was an arch imperialist and got very excited about the er war with Spain er America had a s little brief war with Spain at the end of the nineteenth century erm over the possession of Cuba , and erm in eighteen ninety eight , and this aroused great patriotic feelings in all red blooded Americans and especially in Theodore Roosevelt and er er Roosevelt formed his own company of cavalry called the Rough Riders and erm Roosevelt wore glasses and was asthmatic but he had this group called the Rough Riders , sort of early kind of Clint Eastwood stuff , and erm anyway he g he was engaged in the war with Spain er and there was one wonderful moment in the war Spain in which the Spaniards were at the top of a hill called the San Juan hill er and er Teddy , as he was known , of course he gave his name to the teddy bear , did you know that did you ? |
| 4 | I 'd got some old but we broke all the old ones , so we 're having to use the best |
| 5 | These two cases look very different but they have many aspects in common . |
| 6 | different but you see that one 's , you know what I 'm like with Domestos and |
| 7 | Well I do n't like it very much but it has this very interesting discussion as to whether a fax was cheaper or more expensive than the telephone |
| 8 | I always remember like I were only little but I remember these things you know . |
| 9 | Where there is more rain and cloud the beet grows larger but it has less sugar content . |
| 10 | ‘ White jeans are generally pretty unforgiving but I find these comfortable and not too unflattering ! |
| 11 | and I do n't , do n't know whether the forms were , I do n't think they were quite as complicated as , as these but I found that |
| 12 | Third in this trilogy of deaf men of remarkable achievements of this era who were mainly oralist but who respected those that used sign language was Abraham Farrar , born at Leeds , who became deaf at the age of 3 due to scarlet fever . |
| 13 | Erm I found the , the greeting and the appropriate sociability to start with very hesitant but I think that was most probably just nerves on your part Robert , I do n't think it was something that you would usually have a problem with . |
| 14 | No erm but I 'm sorry but whoever did that needs a fucking good kick in the head you know . |
| 15 | Now I 'm not entirely positive if I 'm right but I think that would be easier to do because you could then alter that round to and then you 'd have your three X as a separate thing . |
| 16 | Swindon will be pushing for compensation 300 to 400 hundred thousand pounds … theres 's been talk of dirty deeds illegal approaches … and things like that but they 've all shaken hands … everyone is happy … |
| 17 | Not only that but we expect that reward to be a fair and just one . |
| 18 | I was gon na go for that but I thought that was too bloody obvious |
| 19 | Not all the SPs were like that but I found most of them lacking in charm . |
| 20 | I worked at City Motors and I stayed there for seven years I had quite a few jobs before that but I liked that one . |
| 21 | That 's the next step we st we may need to treat your tummy with something else after that but I think that 's rather go going to depend on what the chest X-ray shows , and how you feel . |
| 22 | I w I would n't swear on that but I think that 's what happened . |
| 23 | I do n't understand that but it says that down on my script here , from morning show astrologer Peter . |
| 24 | And er she says Jean I swear to God she says if she comes over near my door , I 've told Jim she says , I , I 'm ready for her I 'll beat her round that square and she said I 'm not like that but she says that 's just the way she says , and she hurt my kids when I sent them Easter eggs over , doing that she says , that really galled me , she says cos they were hurting my kids rather than me . |
| 25 | Yeah well he says , he says I rea I would n't have thought that but he said that 's not really his style , that 's not really like Sal to do that . |
| 26 | Er the things that she said were that women used more hedges , such as I think er hedges are sort of things that get put into the conversation if al allegedly if somebody wants to give the impression that they 're not quite sure , and they would n't w You know like I would n't want to say it for sure but I think that . |
| 27 | Food for Microwaving is also useful but it has some curious entries : under flour , for instance , it simply describes what flour is and what it is used for , but has nothing to offer on how microwaving affects it in pastry , cakes , etc . |
| 28 | The Wanderers ' manager , Phil Neal , has some way to go before he can expect to be so honoured but he collected several brownie points after his side 's spirited performance . |
| 29 | Britain incidentally had two thousand times as , as many but I mean that 's the sort of contrast which perhaps you would expect . |
| 30 | She is a little short but she has these other advantages . |