Example sentences of "but you [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside the ring , you feel frustrated , but you try to argue and get some facts . |
| 2 | That 's the only explanation for it , but you try proving it … |
| 3 | But you keep trying , and one day , quite suddenly , you find you can do it . |
| 4 | ‘ But you keep telling me she 's been in love with me for years . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's bad enough — with Nicola being killed — but you keep coming round here — harassing me . ’ |
| 6 | What would happen if you did n't drink enough milk and you did n't get enough calcium and your bones did n't grow but you kept eating lots of protein ? |
| 7 | ‘ But you kept going to these Anglo-Catholic geezers ? ’ |
| 8 | But all in all erm I admire you for actually to hang in there , there was a few pregnant pauses but you kept going . |
| 9 | Sorry old boy , but you deserve to hang . |
| 10 | Or , I I ca n't re , I wo n't repeat here the things they said , but you know spread it , or get it out or whatever ! |
| 11 | yeah , you know quite hopeful so what I as I say what I 'm really looking for is I 've got a preference for older properties but you know try not to pin myself down to too much at the moment , I 've got about a hundred and thirty to spend so ideally I 'd like a cottage old style but I do need three bedrooms |
| 12 | Men and women , they 'd just fight each other but women used to have a go , ar argue not f particularly fighting but you know falling out . |
| 13 | But you know having said that they are there for a reason and the reason they are there for is is if the group did n't have somebody to pull them back down again then they 'd might be going off in all different directions doing all these wonderful things and ending up nowhere because you have n't had somebody who pulls them back and says well hold on a minute . |
| 14 | But you know d' you remember me going round the corner and seeing that erm |
| 15 | not a lot , but you know spend |
| 16 | ‘ But you 've gone all red . ’ |
| 17 | I got this clear but you 've messed it up again . |
| 18 | Many of these are planned for , is n't it , you might do it every day , but you 've planned for it , |
| 19 | So you , you 'll be able to do it every Monday , but you 've planned for it on Monday , you know who 's going to do it , and they , you know , it 's set up . |
| 20 | You did n't grow big cars but you 've grown much bigger flowers than we did . ’ |
| 21 | And one of the girls said yeah but you 've grown since then , I says no , they 've shrunk them ! |
| 22 | ‘ But you 've comforted many a weary soul , listened to lots of troubled folk and even given one or two the will to live again . |
| 23 | Beryl said : ‘ But you 've eaten hardly anything , father ! |
| 24 | Maybe not today , but you 've lost at some stage in the future when you least need to lose . |
| 25 | You may win the battle but you 've lost the war . |
| 26 | But you 've lost the , the overall shape of it . |
| 27 | Sorry , Terry , but you 've lost me there . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ But you 've lost fifteen months of Thomas 's life , ’ she said . |
| 29 | I know but you 've lost the . |
| 30 | ‘ But you 've robbed quite a number of their innocence . ’ |