Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] [noun] but [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now does that have a er I , I know you lose the income but does it , does it penalize you at all ? |
| 2 | If you do not feel the tinkling , repeat the hum but make it lower in pitch . |
| 3 | That is to say , if you want a dishwasher but know you wo n't be able to afford one for , say , three years , then make sure the plumbing is available and that there is a niche for a new fixture before you install your worktops and units . |
| 4 | After pressing for about twenty seconds you remove your hand and , as you do so , you remove the coin but take it upwards so it can not be seen , look at the forehead as if the coin is still there and start everyone counting . |
| 5 | One currant bun in the baker shop , sticky and round with sugar on the top , Peter pay a penny but took it away , now there was none left on the tray |
| 6 | Alternatively , unplug the telephone but keep it near the socket for emergency use . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've no choice but to sell it . |
| 8 | In the wake of the gene-splicing revolution , we have the technology but have we the right to make our own animals ? |
| 9 | So I would say , Have a go but leave it till last , when you when you 've done everything else and maybe you when you 've just checked through to see if the others are okay . |
| 10 | Old body disposer Pugh 's nephew Duncan has been begging me for months to let him play and things have got so desperate I have no choice but to take him on . |
| 11 | We have no choice but to love him , nervously . |
| 12 | ‘ Since we have no choice but to pursue it . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Since the matter has been raised , sir , I have no choice but to pursue it , ’ explained the lawyer . |
| 14 | ‘ You have no choice but to marry me . ’ |
| 15 | They just behave like absolute pricks so that the ladies have no choice but to drop them if they have any self-respect . |
| 16 | ‘ You have no choice but to pay it . |
| 17 | But our focus is primarily upon people , not places as such ; the male survivors of the next generation of Titfords succeeded in wrenching themselves away from the town which had been home for their ancestors for over a hundred and seventy years — and we have no choice but to follow them . |
| 18 | We have no option but to see it as movement from left to right . |
| 19 | For there is no doubt that our prevailing intuitions about ourselves as agents , and a number of associated philosophical arguments about the concepts of choice , action and responsibility , have tended to make the case of individualism seem not merely strong , but so compelling that we have no option but to accept it . |
| 20 | It is Joe Lawley 's opinion that we have no option but to dismantle it , but this has to be done with very great care if we are not to compound the damage done by sixty years of weather and so destroy it . |