Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing gave me the right to say it now . |
| 2 | I have n't , I have n't got a clue but I knew it the minute the second you said it I knew it . |
| 3 | But I mean what the pay relative to us the cost of living and everything else , I do n't know . |
| 4 | I do not know what the answer is , but I know what the answer is not . |
| 5 | People say they become imperceptive ; they spend hours looking for the car keys that were on the table in front of them all the time ; they become preoccupied and inattentive to what other people are saying to them ( ‘ But I told you the Smiths were coming over yesterday . |
| 6 | But I think what the Franks Report illustrates to me very , very clearly indeed is that , within a parliamentary democratic system of government , there are some issues which are insoluble in that the government of the day … are incapable of delivering through the House of Commons . |
| 7 | I think I said it was a 6-iron or maybe a 7 , but I gave him the yardage and he hit his shot right at the hole . |
| 8 | I was utterly baffled , but I gave you the benefit of every doubt , which by this time added up to a couple of thousand . |
| 9 | Thomas was sent for tests but nobody knew what the problem was . |
| 10 | Toughened glass is glass which has been heat treated to make it four to five times stronger than normal glass , but which gives it the characteristic that , should it break , it does so in harmless tiny fragments rather than the dangerous slivers associated with normal glass . |
| 11 | But you know what the Press is and people are . |
| 12 | She 'd already made a bit of a name for herself , only locally but you know what the Germans are about music , and the district party bosses liked romantic pieces so she became the star turn at their more respectable booze-ups . |
| 13 | ‘ None at all , Madame , but you know what the police are like , especially that idiot Hassan . |
| 14 | She has n't , of course , but she gives me the landlord 's name . |
| 15 | Folly doubted if she would care what Luke got up to , but she gave her the flowers none the less . |
| 16 | But who knows what the grapevine will bear next week ? |
| 17 | Whereby erm we do n't end up actually doing the things for them , but we show them the way that they can do them for themselves . |
| 18 | The yeuk was the Well just as you would say er Just a hook but we called it the yeuk Y E U K. |
| 19 | Exactly how this will be done remains to be seen , but one wonders what the effects will be . |
| 20 | But they know what the game is , and they know when they have done a good job : the rewards are tangible and clear . |
| 21 | its not , you ca n't , the thing is you ca n't defend them without how you die , you ca n't train people how to avo to die , you can only train them how to avoid it , so it does n't really matter if you get fired or not , but they show you the drills and you have to do them to the best of your ability the blank rounds are only there to the conditions , now this is why they 've got these laser got laser sights all over the body , helmet and torso and the actual weapons got a laser on top and you get , if you get near one of these things you go dead and your out , and you can actually simulate |
| 22 | ‘ There always seems so much to do — but they like everything the way it 's always been . |
| 23 | When he and his brothers left this world , I could not go with him , but he gave me the gift of never growing old . |
| 24 | I do n't quite know why , but he gave me the impression , without uttering more than a few words , that he had much more than superficial knowledge , and an amusing touch of the sardonic as well . |
| 25 | ‘ But he gave me the car … . ’ |
| 26 | General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt . |
| 27 | Police were told and tailed Newall but he gave them the slip and fled from Britain on a yacht he inherited from his parents , a court in Gibraltar heard . |
| 28 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 29 | I did n't know quite what to answer , but he saved me the trouble . |
| 30 | But he accords them the right to boast , for they have returned with money and presents which are proof of their achievement . |