Example sentences of "[noun] but [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Now correlation , in a similar way , measures something similar to association but it gives you a bit more detail . |
2 | ‘ We 're so sorry about what happened to poor old Goosie Lucy but she gave us no choice . |
3 | I gather this is normal practice but I find it a little unreasonable . |
4 | It is neither the ninety seven thousand , nine hundred and fifty seven pounds claim by Mr nor the forty seven thousand one hundred and eighty five pound figure contended for by Mr but I find it a fair figure for the cost of the plaintiff 's transport in the years ahead . |
5 | I intended to ask the Baronessa Dulcibene why she had come to pay her last respects to this mysterious Englishman but she gave me a glassy look of non-recognition and moved rapidly away with her companion . |
6 | The yeuk was the Well just as you would say er Just a hook but we called it the yeuk Y E U K. |
7 | It took them I ca n't remember how many hours but it took them a long time . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | We never sold anything of course but it gave me a sort of status plus it was a very interesting time to be around the art world . |
10 | Einstein proposed a simple relationship but it took him a number of years to identify the precise form of the curvature tensor involved . |
11 | But I 've I think it is a valid facility but it depends what the facilities for . |
12 | He claimed the housing market was showing signs of revival but he gave it a prod anyway by raising the threshold on stamp duty from £30,000 to £60,000 , move that will help mainly first-time buyers . |
13 | And he said well my father is doing today I ca n't do today I 'll do it Friday and I shouted down the stairs but he owes you a day you should n't be going in . |
14 | Police were told and tailed Newall but he gave them the slip and fled from Britain on a yacht he inherited from his parents , a court in Gibraltar heard . |
15 | ‘ We saw each other around quite a lot but it took me a while to warm up . |
16 | 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 . |