Example sentences of "[to-vb] but [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She was not going to answer but he remained , so she said , ‘ It 's all right , David . |
| 32 | She said ; He was self seeking He talked a lot about a leader being able to lead but he dictated . |
| 33 | She might pretend to listen but she would n't hear . |
| 34 | So , I mean these are the supporters that they , they 've got to sort of focus on erm even i he does say that some of the erm er leaders of the associations are n't actually up to scratch but he says eighty five percent of them are and it would be wrong to attack or to arrest , you know , the other fifteen percent and it 's got to come from their own discipline of the association , you let the movement grow together , do n't try and er become er , you know , resisting forces because er these are the people who we 've got to erm s stay with and to look after , to harness erm to work for and er so that 's basically , is his conclusion . |
| 35 | An informal producer is always difficult to define but it is used here to describe an owner or an employee of a small-scale enterprise comprising less than ten people , operating from an impermanent site , under an ill-defined registration and tax scheme . |
| 36 | Charisma — difficult to define but it attracts others . |
| 37 | I am too young to remember but I think he began his career as a supervisor in the turquoise mines of the Northern Desert , towards the end of the reign of Nebmare Amenophis . |
| 38 | Maybe I 'm a bit young to remember but I do n't recall those two playing for Leeds at any time ! |
| 39 | In this case and if the time constant RC also happens to equal the pulse duration τ Thus As anticipated , this integral is difficult to evaluate but it does reduce to the solution expected from chapter 4 of when when when Help with difficult inverse Fourier transforms is often available from special tables . |
| 40 | Now , that 's really great to me because I mean , you 're really stimulating the youngsters at that age , and quite obviously I could tell you loads of stories the way this neighbourhood engineers er er , scheme works at the moment but as I say we are embarrassed at the moment because , quite obviously , loads of school want us to participate but we got a very shortage of engineers . |
| 41 | Well you 've got to get them to participate but I suppose you would do if you question them |
| 42 | Erm there are differing work practices which I try to erode but it is very difficult |
| 43 | I want to build a plane to escape but I ca n't find the books I need . |
| 44 | Tradition maintains that many of the Campbells warned Macdonalds in time for them to escape but it can not be denied that on that winter morning in Glencoe many of the Clan Campbell plumbed the depths of treachery and horror . |
| 45 | He thought that his school was perhaps not quite as civilised as his mother cared to imagine but he remained silent . |
| 46 | ‘ This is much harder to handle but I know what is required because I have been here before . ’ |
| 47 | I 've done that on trains , I 've done that on a tour bus quite recently , and of course the response you get can be very , very aggressive and that 's sometimes quite hard to handle but I take the precaution of always checking before I go somewhere that I 'm going to , I 'm going to be backed up , for example , erm before I go I purchase my holiday , I actually checked with the tour company that they did n't allow smoking on the buses |
| 48 | Using logic it would be easy to fit but they do n't mention that you 've got to unplug the old keyboard or that the Spectrum 's PCB must go in the right way round . |
| 49 | Erm I 've been out as on the er line three this morning and I think there 's another little bit we ought to buy but we 'll discuss that as we 're going on eh ? |
| 50 | Some times you go into supermarkets and you see food you 'd like to buy but you ca n't . |
| 51 | Very clear and pretty complete account really of , of what I 've you to cover but it was quite a lot of ground erm she went over and er some of it may be less easy to understand than other bits . |
| 52 | Dot tried to smile but it would n't come . |
| 53 | He tried to smile but he could n't smile properly : one side of his mouth seemed dragged down . |
| 54 | Now , many of the other items are also sound and have a part to play but they could be improved upon . |
| 55 | Each of them has a value and a part to play but they should serve us ; we should not be their slaves . |
| 56 | Steve White of Swindon says they 've still got some tough teams to play but they are in good form and if they do n't get into the play-offs it will be their fault |
| 57 | ‘ Of course we want him to play but we ca n't do any more than wait . |
| 58 | No doubt he will want to play but we will have to check on whether his injury restricts his movement . |
| 59 | She had known not what to expect but she was certainly unprepared to find them alone together so soon . |
| 60 | Mark says , ‘ I 'd given my consent to AID but I could n't have told you how I might feel if Wendy did conceive . |