Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [noun] but [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He waved weakly after the car but he did not speak as Rose shut the door and they turned back into the house . |
| 2 | If you want to use three or four colours in one row on a Passap/Pfaff machine you will need to punch your card or mark your mylar sheet especially for the design but you need to mark only one row at a time as the machine automatically knits the two rows . |
| 3 | I mean , a feeling that it it was n't naturally in the area but it could be stirred up . |
| 4 | A European political union is perhaps in the making but it is doubtful whether a European political union would act as a superpower — the task of co-ordinating military efforts , of ‘ speaking with a single voice ’ , may not even be worth attempting . |
| 5 | She 'd spread my business all round the neighbourhood but she 'd lend a hand without grudging it . ’ |
| 6 | There was a tapered garden on a hill , before those houses in a row , and though I did not understand reincarnation , I knew , he told me , about a narrow road smelling sweetly of petrol and roast potatoes , and though I 'd never been , Chock had been , it was only across the street but I could n't see it , he could see it , he told me so , and pointed to the ornate roof across the street , at the chimneys springing from a platform like stalks of green marble , the roof framed by edges intricately ribbed like steeples or the currents of the sea . |
| 7 | ‘ It might mean overtime for the physio but we need all our strikers fit to face the Reds . ’ |
| 8 | Usually dies away in the evening but it has been known to last all night . |
| 9 | Flynn delays naming his side until shortly before the start but I believe young Kevin Jones will be asked to make way for one of the two vastly experienced defenders . |
| 10 | The darkest hour may be just before the dawn but it is no time to go to sleep on the job . |
| 11 | I obviously had just before the war but I do n't , do n't , did n't remember then until afterwards . |
| 12 | It 's probably one that picks up conversations in the room as well as just on the phone but I can show it to the boys at — ’ |
| 13 | The wind and rain on the little hill above Jaffa had ripped away at the paint but it was just possible to make out the words ‘ David Damiani ’ to the left of the broken wooden gate . |
| 14 | I think he would like to do more for the band but we are completely stupid and like do everything for ourselves . |
| 15 | Now I know that 's not selected and I do n't make any complaint about that erm far from it er I would not complain ever against the chair but I did introduce erm well I do n't and I would n't but I erm introduced the erm first reading of a bill on this matter yesterday . |
| 16 | The third again focuses directly upon the child but we may sometimes ask ourselves whether the dissonance between child and parents , or child and society at large , is mutual rather than child-centred . |
| 17 | I 've heard bottles rattling early in the morning but I , sort of one o'clock , two o'clock but I had n't |
| 18 | He had only a few hundred yards to go as the house he was planning to visit was also in the Vomero but he did not wish to arrive with perspiration on his forehead or dust on his shoes . |
| 19 | Station cafés like the one at Temple Meads — I saw the freckly man with the ginger hair , stared him straight in the eye but he did n't recognize me — you ca n't sleep there at night , Vern said , but you can buy a coffee during the day and sit there nodding off and they think you 're just tired from travelling . |
| 20 | ‘ Somewhere in London then ; it 's probably in the files but it 's unlikely he 's there now . |
| 21 | At one time he lived in Devon I think and he also has association with Yorkshire , so that is could be quite probably in the countryside but it does n't have to be a forest , does n't have to be a fox out there but he does actually say I imagine this midnight moment 's forest . |
| 22 | This result could have been spelled out more clearly in the statutes but it seems to me to follow from the provisions of the statutes as they stand and , contrary to the argument of Mr. Page , to be no more curious than the alternative for which he contends . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , Frank was there all night and then he went straight to the office but they sent him home at lunch-time . |
| 24 | Cayard was recalled instantly by the committee but it took them 40 seconds to hoist the French recall signal , by which time they were well up the track . |
| 25 | It might have been all right in the past but it does n't work now . ’ |
| 26 | They 're trying to get somewhere now with the police but it could have happened anywhere ! |
| 27 | a certain part of I beg your pardon sorry I 'm getting my definitions wrong may be looking after something which the erm corporate locations are solely within the south but it 's handled by an corporate account . |
| 28 | Now , it 's obviously very good news that all this aid , that is there it 's just not getting to the people that need it , that it is now on the move but it is n't as simple as that is it ? |
| 29 | Erm I see so I 'm not really will make sure that erm that we are kept in touch so that we are not so far down the track but they ca n't be reversed committee as a whole |
| 30 | ‘ I feel local justice has been dispensed very successfully over the centuries but we are now increasingly facing the prospect , due entirely in my view to financial pressures , of seeing the closure of many local courts and everything being centralised elsewhere . |