Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] but [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every pang of this humiliation would be visited upon Tutilo , as every particle of guilt was being visited upon him now , the more successfully to extricate Herluin , innocent and devout , only wickedly deceived , with nothing to repent but his too profound faith . |
| 2 | None of them won but they still considered the day a victory . |
| 3 | A gust of wind throws rain against the window and shakes the frame ; it 's loud and surprising and I flinch but he just turns slowly and looks out into the darkness with what could almost be contempt before laughing and putting an arm round my shoulder and suggesting we have another drink . |
| 4 | I know but she still lives there , drop me then , she dropped me . |
| 5 | I know but you only need six next time ! |
| 6 | I know but it even when it 's not foggy here it 's foggy at East Leek . |
| 7 | I know but I just ca n't help fidgeting my bottom . |
| 8 | mother and I hope father and I will be around to want to pick up what we can to help you 've got ta start thinking about standing on your own feet , you know , because admittedly I er I , I , I could turn out to be not as bad a financial state as I anticipated but I never was stinking rich and I 'm certainly not stinking rich now , so erm I mean |
| 9 | Not that I mind but it just means things like painting and decorating what you looking |
| 10 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 11 | He says no , but he , he , he still half owns it , he says his name 's on the lease , I said but it still do n't make it right that if he , if he earned half of it then half the bills are his |
| 12 | causing bad feeling or trying to upset her trade , I mean we know she 's rubbish but erm I , I said er I just said well the children who enjoy it enjoy it I said but he never really settled and er we felt that between us we 'd got over twenty years ' experience of working with children , we reckoned we knew a little bit more about what makes children tick . |
| 13 | I did n't get difficult when I drank but I often could n't remember where I 'd been or what I 'd done or even how I 'd got back home . |
| 14 | Not only was the world into which you wanted to escape there for you to see but you also knew that it was a practical possibility to reach it . |
| 15 | She moved but she still kept glancing about . |
| 16 | say to th this chap you know but we just happened to mention in passing to Jeanette and she really jumped and said oh Pat did n't smoke a lot . |
| 17 | he 's got a few bits , there 's still another few bits to be done you know but it just looks such a mess |
| 18 | I 've tried that chewing gum you get but it still did n't stop me . |
| 19 | Those are the first ones you contact but you still have to sit down with one of the estate agents and say , Well look what sort of business do you give them ? |
| 20 | I think so I mean , there good and bad wherever you go but I never |
| 21 | Yes , the time of day will depend of menu that you offer but what else will it consider ? |
| 22 | Luckily we were still in time to get into the RADA auditions , which I did and got a letter from them saying ‘ not only are you rejected but we strongly advise you to think about another career ’ . |
| 23 | But in latter days they came with a tank and they put it out and put it in a trailer you see but I just worked with bags when it was the first of it . |
| 24 | Yeah I know you have but anyone else has . |
| 25 | An advice centre in Sheffield which helps claimants apply for special needs entitlements , like bedding , said , " We apply but we often have to take the DHSS to a tribunal to get them . |
| 26 | In every case , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , if we had not done what we did but something else the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |
| 27 | Yes I think we did but we also had something else . |
| 28 | We both knew what the other one meant but we never said it in so many words . |
| 29 | So whether we 've but nobody else seems to have noticed anything like this . |
| 30 | The two figures have been kind of squelched together just as in , in Exodus there are two , sorry in erm in er Genesis there are two er Garden of Eden stories so they claim there are two Moses figures who have been erm as it were compounded together , but both of them says Freud were powerful religious leaders and they probably did give their followers moral principles , perhaps not exactly as we have but something very like it and so Freud is not sceptical about that . |