Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun prp] but i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't have a chance to get a briefing from Graeme but I did n't get one when I took over from Kenny Dalglish . |
| 2 | We were to do it from Friday to Friday but I turned on the tapes on , when was it |
| 3 | ‘ One fifty an hour would be considered exploitation in London but I daresay it 's par for the course round here . |
| 4 | ‘ There will now be a recommendation to strike put before our annual conference in May but I hope that between now and then the Government sees sense . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , he had a very good record in England but I feel hi is sacrificing skill at the expense of power — or brute force if one is to be honest about it . ’ |
| 6 | I 've enjoyed my four years at Widnes but I think a change of clubs will help me get back on the international scene , ’ said Tait , 27 , who has agreed a three-year contract with the Headingley club . |
| 7 | they wanted me for the whole day of Friday but I said I 'm sorry I can only do you half day if you 're interested , they were , they were desperate . |
| 8 | Both of these places are within walking distance of Docklands but I did not go to the Great British Beer Festival . |
| 9 | Erm in Wales and Scotland also slightly better than people expected erm a rise was , was expected but not as strong as we , as we 've actually seen erm the Welsh and Scottish er economies , certainly there 's cle clear evidence in Scotland but I think one can read it for Wales as well , showing that the manufacturing economy er very much being buoyed up by the electronic sector erm and that probably er helping to explain why growth has been so strong in those parts of the country . |
| 10 | Much more importantly , not only does it preserve the integrity of the people of Highfields but I guess in many ways it preserves the integrity of both the parties concerned while moving and supporting this particular amendment . |
| 11 | I knew of the Knowlton Circles in Dorset but I had never seen them , although I had seen an air photograph . |
| 12 | ‘ He came around a bit to Michael but I do n't believe he ever liked him . |
| 13 | Although I have Well I 've come through two wars and I remember the relief of Mathaking but I 'd sooner that I 've was born when I was . |
| 14 | Now when you say right across , I mean you you 've ta seen the photos of , of er shell pitted ground with the nineteen fourteen eighteen war , well that 's how Bentley was then cos it had been rooted for coal and nineteen twenty six strike everybody got it all out cos there was a lot of top surface coal , course it was just left there was a lot of mole holes , stuff from the furnaces when they tip tipped the slag , it was up and down and there was Buttons Brook , was n't it Buttons Brook across there , called Buttons Brook there was a pool across there called Leg of Lamb but I mean it , it er you can imagine what I 'm trying to say , what the ground was like to go over in pitch black night , to go over there and we went out and course we was issued with er ammunition which was one of the o only times I can remember when we went really out prepared with live ammunition , and er we scouted and scouted till daybreak and we did n't find nothing . |
| 15 | I would not presume to add anything to the Word of God but I have a sneaking suspicion that if Isaiah had been writing in the 1990s he might have added a phrase . |
| 16 | Yeah I 'll have a word with Stu but i mean he 's gon na be that busy today . |
| 17 | I used to do a lot for Joe but I do n't do them now . |
| 18 | So I I 've digressed er from er considering what erm erm er what this has got to do with the er erm congress of Vienna but I think it 's er hopefully er er a worthwhile erm er digression . |
| 19 | ‘ We had six good seasons under Kevin but I suppose his departure had to happen , ’ Wilkinson said . |
| 20 | I have n't got , I have n't got any school on Monday but I have got ta get up early . |
| 21 | I think that 's a silly decision by Vic but I expect he 's got the unions on his back . |
| 22 | I think he might have been the first black player in England but I know Celtic fielded jazz and rap pioneer Gil Scott Heron 's Dad in the 30s — a great success there apparently . |
| 23 | I had a ghost in my house in France but I 've never seen anything but people have . |
| 24 | Bu I meet a erm , a different oh , tribe in Saherli but I got married in England with my , though we make , this , I 'd say , this man to be my wife forever , but when I got home , back home in Ingeria you know , we did it in a , a different way . |