Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't want him , but I persuaded them in the end . |
| 2 | I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . " |
| 3 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 4 | look I said I do n't mind vinyl , I do n't mind good vinyl the only good , the only one that , it was good for the toilet , but I got it in a pack cos we 've got such a small single toilet |
| 5 | ‘ New-fangled ’ ideas , the farmer said , but I convinced him in the end . |
| 6 | This repeated general principles well known to a ( l good teachers , but I wanted them in the Report so there could be no doubt about the kind of teaching we admired . |
| 7 | ‘ It would have taken forty-five minutes by bus , but I did it in a quarter of an hour by bike , ’ he said . |
| 8 | No , but I hang it in the garage which is |
| 9 | but she got it in the greens |
| 10 | They are comfortably familiar tunes , but she interprets them in an intensely personal way . |
| 11 | This was n't so easy , but she managed it in the end . |
| 12 | He tried to kiss her , but she evaded him in a half-angry , half-flirtatious way , so they were in the middle of a clumsy clinch when Lucaroni walked in . |
| 13 | ‘ It took the better part of an hour to get to brass tacks , but we managed it in the end , sir . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I think our second half performance was our worst for a long time , but we murdered them in the first . ’ |
| 15 | So where he is now , they really stretch them but they unwind them in the afternoons by games and and |
| 16 | The teenager tried to run away when the youths approached him but they punched him in the face and pushed him to the ground . |
| 17 | It was fully half an hour before the farmer and the farmhands beat out all the flames , but they managed it in the end . |
| 18 | He tried to get away in his wheelchair , but they caught him in the hallway . |
| 19 | Mind you do n't your tongue with that I tell you what they had in er Woolies market as well , I do n't know whether you 've seen them and I do n't , I 've not got you know an old Argos catalogue to compare prices , cos they 've not got it in the summer one , but they have them in the winter ones , it 's like a , a tool box , but it 's on wheels and you make it up , you , you know all the screws and the wheels come out and you 're not , it 's all plastic , I think it must be from age three , because of the little bits , and it 's like erm , I 've seen it somewhere , where I 've been , it has little figures sat in this erm , what would you , it 's like erm , a bit like a truck , yeah , and it 's got the , the figures in it |
| 20 | But he told them in a straightforward way . |
| 21 | He had , of course , known those grandparents whose glamour made Alexandra 's existence so difficult , but he saw them in a light so different from his wife 's that they seemed hardly the same people . |
| 22 | I pulled him away and tried to get him upstairs in case he was traumatized for life , but he kicked me in the balls . |
| 23 | Yeah , yeah was kind , it was kind of them , yes and we went all round the shops and er I thoroughly enjoyed it and in the new Co-Op as well you know , I thoroughly enjoyed it but he took me in the car so that we did n't have to hang about you see |
| 24 | She did not provide him with wine , to be sure , but he took it in the caffè he frequented , a caffè where politics were argued over far into the night and the arguers fell asleep at the table . |
| 25 | After several hours Matron managed to calm him down but he left her in a terrible mood . |
| 26 | But he did it in a way which seemed to belittle others . |
| 27 | Ben moved across to the other side s ) f the window , trying to keep them in sight , but he lost them in a moment . |
| 28 | Barth was deeply impressed by Anselm 's so-called ‘ Ontological Argument ’ for the existence of God — this argument will be looked at in more detail later — but he interpreted it in a particular way . |
| 29 | It does not do him justice to say he is on their side , but he leaves us in no doubt about the horror of what Jacob and Rebekah have done . |
| 30 | Stephen has gone through confession , and is , he declares , ‘ Ready to forge that language ’ , but he declares it in a language that will not yet take Joyce out of desperation . |