Example sentences of "[pers pn] but [pron] have [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | I do n't want to threaten you but you 've forced me into a corner . |
2 | But if you phone up and they 've got one they reserve it for you but you have to get it that day , were n't it Bev ? |
3 | I had every intention of refusing when I interviewed you but I had read your articles . |
4 | I am writing hurriedly to you but I have thought it right to apprize you of this … |
5 | The boys could n't believe me but they had to do what I told them to do … . |
6 | But I got twe so that Mark blamed it on me but I 'd sussed it , as soon as starts tramping |
7 | They dropped their voices to a whisper when they saw me but I 'd seen them taking nips from a bottle of gin . |
8 | In 1941 , all factories were moved out of Leningrad ( as St Petersburg was called from 1924 to 1991 ) and I took my son with me but I had to leave my husband behind . |
9 | I went to several pubs looking for him but nobody had seen him , so , as it was getting late , I turned to go home to face the music . |
10 | In the heat of the moment he had wanted her but it had meant nothing after all . |
11 | He felt a great deal of anger towards his wife and really wanted to express it to her but she had cheated him , as he saw it , by deliberately having an accident and dying and therefore depriving him of having the opportunity to say what he felt . |
12 | This has ruined my sitting room and I have been onto the council about it but they have done nothing . ’ |
13 | Well I 'm not researcher I could n't say how they do it but it 's done it was done from their recruitment and marketing sales . |
14 | I have n't I have n't bought it but I 've seen it . |
15 | Oh , well maybe it 's It but I 've read something |
16 | But I , I really do apologize about it but she has done it erm |