Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , but I ask you that one . |
| 2 | Can I jump from this , they 're all interconnected , over to question of magistrates , one of the questions in the notes , really , it points out that there are about , not quite , but er , about two third of magistrates are men , and about a third women , erm , is there , is that because of history , and shall , because they 're are more women than men , I mean logically , because there are more women than men in the community , there should be more women magistrates than men , should n't there , on the on the basis of presentation , I take it that , I do n't know the figures , but I take it that er , more and more women now are er , being , accepting , the called , of course , to be magistrate , you did n't have any choice once , do you in a way . |
| 3 | ‘ But I promised you that painting on your wedding day , and I had to send it . ’ |
| 4 | But I want it that way . |
| 5 | We agreed that the accusation was obviously nonsense , but I warned him that rape , like child abuse , was a powerfully charged topic at present in England . |
| 6 | No , I , I was gon na do it but I gave you that other half for Marie |
| 7 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 8 | That 's it like a desk that 's really that that was the American way of spelling it but we spell it that way now . |
| 9 | Now , you may wonder , along with one of my guests this week , what the point is of having Punch lunches if their proceedings remain private , but we like it that way and , besides , it means that we get some seriously filthy gossip . |
| 10 | But he told me that , in the eyes of the law , theft is actually a lesser charge than handling stolen goods If there were n't people handling stolen goods then nobody would nick things in the first place . |
| 11 | But he gave us that there . |
| 12 | It is natural for mathematicians to be the first to study problem solving but it surprises me that other disciplines have been so slow . |