Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] but [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er er , talk about being nice , but she really But we 've in |
| 2 | Well I 'd like you to try that one today but I go to pieces |
| 3 | A credit card with her name on it finally got her in but she left in a huff 30 minutes later . |
| 4 | She greeted him warmly but he responded with a perfunctory nod and immediately got up to leave . |
| 5 | I ca n't see him physically but I meet with him in dreams . |
| 6 | I tried to fight him off but he kept at me , panting ecstasy into my face and wagging his entire rear end . |
| 7 | Well the hose landed on him alright but it landed on his parcel and it the whole thing fell out on the road . |
| 8 | He has read it before but he dips into it from time to time as a priest might consult the Bible in preparation for a sermon , or a poisoner Feltman 's Toxicology in preparation for a murder . |
| 9 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 10 | The Unix festival , UniForum ‘ 93 , did n't feel as successful a show as it was last year : it was spread out over a lot more acreage and split into two widely separated pavilions , and attendance looked sparse and the aisles empty despite show management 's claims of a 10% increase in traffic — like as not , it was talking about the pre-registration which was up , but unofficially we hear attendance was down ; UniForum is still more a Unix celebration than anything else but it remains to be seen whether there will still be things to celebrate or whether erosion has set in . |