Example sentences of "[noun] but [pron] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or if you 're a bridge player you might go and ask advice or read books but what do you do about your driving ? |
| 2 | She meant it as a compliment but it made me sound like her GP . |
| 3 | My chaplain snorts in derision but what does he know ? |
| 4 | Oh , he was covered in dirt and spoke like an actor reciting his lines but he made one mistake . |
| 5 | I know it 's boring Trev but what do you want me to do , done some work actually , you ai n't gon na do some work |
| 6 | Nutrition is a word everyone uses these days but what does it mean ? |
| 7 | Her body had stiffened for a moment but she made herself relax and huddle against him . |
| 8 | Oh yeah , they colonised all these places but it makes you wonder , you know , you see all this unemployment and of course this John Major 's in his answer now is ooh well it 's the same everywhe , it 's not , not here , it 's everywhere ! |
| 9 | He ca n't see me of course but it makes me feel funny . |
| 10 | tt right , yeah , incomes have risen throughout the world and that impacts both on the demand for agricultural products and also the demand for manufactured products but what do we know about demand elasticities for those two products , income elasticities what 's the income elasticity of manufactured goods ? |
| 11 | During a run in a Neil Simon play , I struggled with soft lenses but they made me cry constantly — which was unfortunate , as Neil tends to expect laughs . |
| 12 | Erm I stress it is just speculation but what do you think ? |
| 13 | It looks therapeutic in movies but it made me feel worse than ever . |
| 14 | ‘ Well ! ’ says someone , ‘ I know what you mean by talking to God but what do you mean by listening to him ? |
| 15 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with Elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 16 | So it 's unusual and I get told off for giving you a choice but what do you think ? |
| 17 | He played a lot of great shots but I felt I beat myself . |
| 18 | They thought I meant for five seconds but I made them practise holding their tone for twenty or thirty seconds . |
| 19 | The big boys tried to make me feel at home by taking me to the greasy spoon for a pie but what did I care for food as the table rang with drug quips and acerbic one-liners about Danielle Dax from Gavin Martin , James Brown and Danny Kelly . |
| 20 | He added : ‘ I made a tremendous start to the year and badly wanted that No 1 spot for the first time but it made me become negative . |
| 21 | I 've got some pills but they make me feel like a rag in the mornings . |
| 22 | and things , job families er , we 've got that already and we 've got , there 's gon na be the computer thing on careers but you see we 've only managed this year to get it brought down from year eleven , somebody who went into this , keeping it very close to myself , to bring it down to year ten they 're actually you know , it 's very , very difficult to let them remove it and I ca n't see that you can then make that down to ninth year just yet . |