Example sentences of "[pers pn] but [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I says I 'm gon na stop with me father and they said well , we 're sorry to lose you but we know this trade 's know good to you and we hope that you 'll stay with your dad and , well I did , I stayed with me dad until , as I say after I come out of the army and they would n't let me increase me coal trade . |
| 2 | If it makes a mess James I 'll help you but you try first . |
| 3 | I know she 's right , but she should , set an example in some ways , mm people are so used to her now they just look at her and carry on talking silly old bugger , you know , , shut up Deirdre I 'm do n't want to do that , should n't be , cos there was n't much to put on , although they left , left quite a bit off yesterday , they cut short , there was five hundred breast portion short and two hundred oyster eggs , so Deirdre informed me but they injected six hundred too many and four hundred eggs to Tescos all quite ridiculous . |
| 4 | And that was through they not me but I mean that was all alright . |
| 5 | ‘ A packed five-match programme tired me but I felt stronger afterwards . |
| 6 | ‘ A packed five-match programme tired me but I felt stronger afterwards . |
| 7 | ‘ Nick 's about seven years younger than me but he has tremendous talent . |
| 8 | He was where I had left him but he looked different as he beckoned excitedly to me . |
| 9 | I 've had this twice and each time its been , its been other people , because his got a lot of goods people 's belongings out of one cupboard into another and the second time round there 's been purgatory because he brought Karen 's house , her hoover and the saucepans and everything that was his , everything that belonged to him but he said that before , I said why was Michelle able to jumped in between him and Karen , he said well Karen had been getting moody , and he said Karen was getting bored , Paul is boring , she 's told Paul that his boring boring . |
| 10 | We will be looking for another assignment for him but it looks unlikely until next winter . ’ |
| 11 | I know I mean I stayed with him but I had three kids . |
| 12 | He must have been equally surprised to see her but he recovered first , and while Rachel was still floundering to find something to say and Julie was murmuring something about hoping he would enjoy working at OBEX he said , ‘ Actually , we 've met before . |
| 13 | Everybody seemed to shun her but I felt sorry for her and we became close friends . |
| 14 | No I I I honestly do n't know I mean we fetched Mrs home to bury her but I mean that was oh nineteen fifty odd . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was only that the hot climb had tired her but it seemed more than that . |
| 16 | Everything was against her but she came good in the end , ’ said a relieved George , who had survived the aircraft near-miss in the morning . |
| 17 | People were all around her but she felt distant . |
| 18 | Not that Dorothea minded their laughing at her but she felt protective towards her idea . |
| 19 | Creggan hesitated to tell her but she seemed different from other vagrants he had met and in the last few days a trust had developed between them , so it seemed natural to say . |
| 20 | She wrote back to him careful little letters to which no one could object , fearing to display too much emotion in case it called attention to the boy 's over-regard for her but she managed all the same to make her affection felt , telling him : — Pilade looks for you everywhere and will not believe I have not hidden you in a box . |
| 21 | Social Services or somebody to do with or somewhere contacted him and asked him to do it but they paid all cash . |
| 22 | So I asked for help ; I did n't like doing it but it seemed necessary . |
| 23 | There 's a follow-up series on a Sunday evening now called king of something , king of ca n't think of the name , ca n't remember the name of it but it starts this Sunday evening at nine o'clock |
| 24 | I 've got the phone number er it 's just a case now of er getting on and getting it advertised and marketing it but it 's all been signed |
| 25 | You were secretly terrified of it but you kept that very secret . |
| 26 | I thought he 'd gone off it but I got wrong bag . |
| 27 | You know yeah may be may be and it is difficult situations do it but I think some of the problem comes in that it 's very difficult for us to stick with the point and hear ourselves say the same thing over and over again because it does n't feel right how many how many of you did n't feel right doing doing what you were doing ? |
| 28 | He would not admit it but he felt secure with Ranulf who would guard his back . |
| 29 | She did n't know what made her say it but she felt proud , a lovely , running excitement went through her , like water . |
| 30 | She did n't know how he would do it but she felt sure he would . |