Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing gave me the right to say it now . |
| 2 | I have n't , I have n't got a clue but I knew it the minute the second you said it I knew it . |
| 3 | Some people do n't do anything — some people 's places really are n't clean … well , this one is n't very , but I keep it the best I can . |
| 4 | I did n't know Tonya very well , but I wish her the best . ’ |
| 5 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 6 | People say they become imperceptive ; they spend hours looking for the car keys that were on the table in front of them all the time ; they become preoccupied and inattentive to what other people are saying to them ( ‘ But I told you the Smiths were coming over yesterday . |
| 7 | ‘ Wild geese , mon vieux , is what you presume me to chase , ’ said the gentleman to Bramble , ‘ but I assure you the stable door is bolted . ’ |
| 8 | I think I said it was a 6-iron or maybe a 7 , but I gave him the yardage and he hit his shot right at the hole . |
| 9 | I was utterly baffled , but I gave you the benefit of every doubt , which by this time added up to a couple of thousand . |
| 10 | Toughened glass is glass which has been heat treated to make it four to five times stronger than normal glass , but which gives it the characteristic that , should it break , it does so in harmless tiny fragments rather than the dangerous slivers associated with normal glass . |
| 11 | One of the tragedies to that it has now become so expensive but is very difficult but not because it was sponsored but somebody told me the other night that the Billy Connolly programme excuse me Billy Connolly programme about art and culture was |
| 12 | Good try — but you got it the wrong way round ! |
| 13 | But you see you the of Nick is , you see , he worked on his own for this twelve months . |
| 14 | Er so I 'm gon na have them but she showed me the small room , what they call the small room , well that was huge well it will be perfect for what we want . |
| 15 | She has n't , of course , but she gives me the landlord 's name . |
| 16 | Folly doubted if she would care what Luke got up to , but she gave her the flowers none the less . |
| 17 | Whereby erm we do n't end up actually doing the things for them , but we show them the way that they can do them for themselves . |
| 18 | The yeuk was the Well just as you would say er Just a hook but we called it the yeuk Y E U K. |
| 19 | its not , you ca n't , the thing is you ca n't defend them without how you die , you ca n't train people how to avo to die , you can only train them how to avoid it , so it does n't really matter if you get fired or not , but they show you the drills and you have to do them to the best of your ability the blank rounds are only there to the conditions , now this is why they 've got these laser got laser sights all over the body , helmet and torso and the actual weapons got a laser on top and you get , if you get near one of these things you go dead and your out , and you can actually simulate |
| 20 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 21 | But they do it the other way as well . |
| 22 | ‘ But he gave me the car … . ’ |
| 23 | I do n't quite know why , but he gave me the impression , without uttering more than a few words , that he had much more than superficial knowledge , and an amusing touch of the sardonic as well . |
| 24 | When he and his brothers left this world , I could not go with him , but he gave me the gift of never growing old . |
| 25 | General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt . |
| 26 | Police were told and tailed Newall but he gave them the slip and fled from Britain on a yacht he inherited from his parents , a court in Gibraltar heard . |
| 27 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 28 | ‘ But he sees me the other way — he spoke of another photograph — he was telling me that … ’ |
| 29 | I did n't know quite what to answer , but he saved me the trouble . |
| 30 | But he accords them the right to boast , for they have returned with money and presents which are proof of their achievement . |