Example sentences of "[verb] but [conj] [pers pn] [vb base] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can write down what you like and people can read it any way they want but unless you 've got no job , no money and nowhere decent to live then you do n't know what it 's like to be out of work . |
| 2 | It may sound a little long winded but after you have read the manual ( twice ) you should understand the plot and the idea . |
| 3 | If they were all the same colour you 'd think But because you 've become so used to seeing the green and ambers and the reds |
| 4 | no Bev 's flown but when I 've gone up with her |
| 5 | Turkey on its own is easy to accommodate but once you have piled on the stuffing , sausages , bacon and cranberry sauce , your poor old wine is struggling to hold its own . |
| 6 | I agree with what you 're saying but when I 've done it before and involved the pupil in such a report I put it on a separate sheet , so that |
| 7 | In most cases of detinue there would be a concurrent liability in conversion based upon a demand and refusal to return but as we have seen conversion required a positive act and had never lain where the defendant once had the plaintiff 's goods but was unable to return them because they had been lost or negligently destroyed . |
| 8 | Which is a nice promise to make but when you 've got so many thousand houses to get through it took about six months to set the scheme up . |