Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But I mean what the pay relative to us the cost of living and everything else , I do n't know . |
| 4 | I did n't know Tonya very well , but I wish her the best . ’ |
| 5 | I do not know what the answer is , but I know what the answer is not . |
| 6 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | But I think what the Franks Report illustrates to me very , very clearly indeed is that , within a parliamentary democratic system of government , there are some issues which are insoluble in that the government of the day … are incapable of delivering through the House of Commons . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I was utterly baffled , but I gave you the benefit of every doubt , which by this time added up to a couple of thousand . |
| 12 | ‘ None at all , Madame , but you know what the police are like , especially that idiot Hassan . |
| 13 | She 'd already made a bit of a name for herself , only locally but you know what the Germans are about music , and the district party bosses liked romantic pieces so she became the star turn at their more respectable booze-ups . |
| 14 | But you know what the Press is and people are . |
| 15 | Good try — but you got it the wrong way round ! |
| 16 | But you see you the of Nick is , you see , he worked on his own for this twelve months . |
| 17 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She has n't , of course , but she gives me the landlord 's name . |
| 20 | Folly doubted if she would care what Luke got up to , but she gave her the flowers none the less . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The yeuk was the Well just as you would say er Just a hook but we called it the yeuk Y E U K. |
| 23 | But they know what the game is , and they know when they have done a good job : the rewards are tangible and clear . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | ‘ There always seems so much to do — but they like everything the way it 's always been . |
| 26 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 27 | But they do it the other way as well . |
| 28 | In 1686 he became a London alderman , sitting for Broad Street ; but he discharged himself the following year , probably in anticipation of the purging of Anglicans from the bench . |
| 29 | ‘ But he gave me the car … . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |