Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun] but [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a cat kills a mouse we may feel sorry for the mouse but we no longer accuse the cat of wickedness . |
| 2 | But you just had to do that sort of thing , I , we used to feel awfully sorry for the patients but you had , they had do it because they would n't have got a wash otherwise , there was so mu so much to do . |
| 3 | Sorry about the mess but you caught me on the hop like . |
| 4 | It may have been different if Arsenal were top of the table but they 're not . |
| 5 | Yet our soaps are top of the ratings but they could increase their viewers even more if they eased-up a little and balanced things out . |
| 6 | Martin was afraid of the churchyard but he knew he had to go inside . |
| 7 | Something , we do n't wan na pa paint the walls cos there 's so many like bits that are wrong with the walls but we want if we Anaglypta it , it wo |
| 8 | ‘ It might not be popular with the fans but we 've got to do that to keep our noses in front . |
| 9 | It got quite windy in the morning but he got his head down and played to par , not speaking hardly a word , even to me . |
| 10 | Given the apparent turbulence of much of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , with religious Reformations , agricultural riots and the Civil Wars that stability and prosperity may seem elusive to the historian but they were very apparent to many contemporaries , at least among the higher ranks . |
| 11 | erm , well , the , the roads are empty on the Sundays but I |
| 12 | In these cases the society not only fixes and receives the fee payable for the report but it retains the fee for itself . |
| 13 | Jim Pike of the solar flair team says it 's very hot and bumpy in the car but it manages to keep on the road even with the road trains flying past solar cars are simple machines … the cells on top soak up the sun and the energy drives an electric motor … |
| 14 | She says it 's because the water is pure from the mountain but she does n't really believe it 's just that . |
| 15 | Barnes believes he will be fit for the Test but it would be a major risk playing him . |
| 16 | Now it may well be that the whole balance of things is that we 're generally okay for the moment but it seems to me that as time goes on and there 's a need to review plans and there 's a need to make further provision that it would be very very difficult indeed against a blanket policy as opposed to individual justifications around ind er individual settlements . |
| 17 | But there 's two ways of getting them off if they do latch on to you , one is to burn them off with a cigarette or a match and the other way is to use rock salt , and if you put rock salt on them they then just come off so that 's a little bit erm more humane for the leeches but it depends what you feel about them really as to whether you want to give them another chance . |
| 18 | Miss Grimes had certainly been glad of the presents but she had not really seemed as destitute and lonely as Ianthe had expected — perhaps secretly even hoped — and she found herself resenting the way she had taken the violets . |
| 19 | She was always quick on the uptake but she had never got at him before . |
| 20 | I was very naive at the beginning but I learn fast . |
| 21 | The fellers down there are always good for a laugh but they do n't know what any of the places are like . |
| 22 | ‘ Not good for the bedu but it 's good for a rest . ’ |
| 23 | Unfortunately , the posters they sent to us arrived too late for the exhibition but they will be used at future venues . |
| 24 | Not sure about the ANSI but I would put the Himem before the erm Three Eight Six . |
| 25 | He 's not sure of the time but he says it was after he 'd eaten his sandwich , say six in the evening . |
| 26 | Lib-Dem candidate Chris Abbott tells us it was very good of the printer but we are unable to reproduce what he himself says . |
| 27 | York is a vigorous , exciting city famous throughout the world but it would be much more low key without the visitors . |
| 28 | Soviet naval forces have been present in the Gulf but they have by no means matched the American military presence in the form of a small naval force permanently stationed there and facilities in Oman and sometimes Bahrain . |
| 29 | The bride was going to get married in a tutu but we persuaded her against it . |
| 30 | ‘ We certainly hope Scottish and UK companies will become involved in the project but we are determined to get the very best expertise , even if it means going abroad , ’ he said . |