Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] get [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once I got out of the splitting shop out into the dry , handling leather rather than skins , er it were terrific , absolutely terrific . |
| 2 | But once you get down below the horizon you get to look round this area here where there 's some rope tangled round , some kind of padding , it does tend to get a little bit lost amongst all the pebbles . |
| 3 | Oh , it 'll burn your horn buds off , all right , but if it gets in among the food , that 's it . " |
| 4 | But before we get down to the equations I must say a few words in defence of the approach I choose . |
| 5 | But before we get back to Voluptua and the gas jockey from Bixby , Mississippi , here 's a message from GenTech … |
| 6 | But before you get around to it , chew on this : I 'll do what I like , when I like , and with whom I like . |
| 7 | It was an illusion of tired eyes , but before he got back in the car he stood , his collar open , looking up at the sky where there was nothing to see but black , and let the water splash down on his open face , his wet shirt clinging to the skin of his chest and belly . |
| 8 | The Americans were actually behind us in discovering the importance of preventive and rehabilitative services , but when they got round to looking for permanence for children in care their strategy was a combined one of permanence with natural families and permanence with new families . |
| 9 | Nelson had planned to take her to town , but when they got up to the car park he could n't get his car to start . |
| 10 | Thousands of different kinds of rocks have been described and separately named , but when one gets down to their chemistry , one finds that they all have a great deal in common . |
| 11 | but when we got up to the top of the house I needed to go to the toilet . |
| 12 | ‘ But when we got down to signing the papers I saw there was £198 charged for the fittings and £223 VAT on the original sum I had been quoted . |
| 13 | In the summer we can go out and draw from direct observation , but in winter it is too cold , but when we get back to the classroom we can draw from memory the tree we have just examined and put down on paper as much as we have learned and remembered about the tree , its form , its colour , and its texture . |
| 14 | But when I got back to Norwich , I started to cry . |
| 15 | Max and I were delighted with the result , but when I got back to the hotel I was taken violently ill and had to be put to bed . |
| 16 | But when I got back to the agency this morning , the place had been cleared out . ’ |
| 17 | But when I got back to England there was a picture in one of the papers . ’ |
| 18 | On the whole I would prefer to have that Lanston Monotype 's Cochin than Matthews , but when you get up to , I mean , you have to do that cochin black that 's fantastic in display sizes . |
| 19 | But when he gets round to it , I think he 'll control them a bit more closely , now you can invest in that sort of fund quite safely , and although it wo n't give you any capital growth , because if they 're giving you ten percent income , obviously the capital growth 's going to be limited , but er if it 's the income that you 're after , not a bad thing to do , so I mean at the moment I may actually combine one income-type er P E P with one growth and income , where the , where the , perhaps the yield is about five percent . |
| 20 | He 'd been right when he told Alison that he was n't overlooked , because he could only see a narrow slice of his lounge from here ; but when he got down on his hands and knees and peered through the wrought ironwork the angle improved and he could see almost half of the room . |
| 21 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 22 | As he did so , he kept darting his eyes nervously back to his little room and the manuscript on the desk ; but when he got back in , puffing a little , he was smiling and giving little mutters of pleasure : ‘ Well , this sure is nice of you , real friendly … ’ |
| 23 | She rang the Sunday Herald number , placating her conscience with the thought that she might not have time to ring Tracey that evening after all ; but when she got through to the news desk , she discovered that he had taken the shuttle to Glasgow the morning before . |
| 24 | He recounted all this without any anger or bitterness , but as he got up from his chair to go to the kitchen I had to turn away rather than watch him move around his flat as though he were still hampered by chains . |