Example sentences of "[verb] but [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Hennessy was no fluke and he has obviously been under-rated but he does need soft ground , ’ said Murphy . |
| 2 | By whom I do not know but I intend to find out . |
| 3 | I , I 've not been near one , I would n't know but you have to stand next to them to get an effect , to kn know how big they are . |
| 4 | It has but I 've turned the stat back up on the cylinder just made the boiler cut in again cos that 's that 's why the boilers cutting out cos it what it does once it gets up to temperature then it 'll shut itself off . |
| 5 | I try to write but we have run out of words . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll be honest with you , I did n't want to come but I 've got no choice . ’ |
| 7 | The CLA wo n't get exactly what it wants but we hope to get some sort of general agreement . |
| 8 | His lashes flickered but he continued to probe . |
| 9 | It has impressed but it has to have the right tools if it is going to provide the safety that councillor referred to and the saving of life which was referred to by councillor . |
| 10 | The compromise of an extendible lead gives him some freedom to wander but it does give rise to ‘ incidents ’ . |
| 11 | It was emptying but it 's started filling up again . |
| 12 | The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore . |
| 13 | Mrs Sams ( 44 ) from Birmingham , said : ‘ I do not normally swear but he has driven me to it . |
| 14 | They bomb the airfields and we shoot down their bombers , lots of young men die but we expect to win . |
| 15 | Now that 's not what President Eisenhower wanted , I 've just read out this quotation , it 's the last thing I want to do he says but he 's driven to do it because the state governor refused to accept the arguments that , that Eisenhower put to him . |
| 16 | The two separate Minutes may not necessarily be related but it does suggest there may be more in the Cup 's name that has hitherto been appreciated . |
| 17 | He said it 's you know it 's it 's it 's not easily done but he 's seen them quite a lot . |
| 18 | These are now having theirs done but he 's done quite a number of them in this area . |
| 19 | I said I fully realised the job had to be done but I wished to protest against the shabby trick ‘ Ark Royal ’ had played on us . |
| 20 | Something she had missed but he had seen . |
| 21 | I did not smoke but I hesitated to reply . |
| 22 | If you 've got an idea or a message to send it has to be encoded in some way then there 's various mediums or media by which it can be transmitted but it 's got to be decoded by the receiver for the idea or message to be understood , and there 's some kind of feedback mechanism potentially from the receiver to the sender . |
| 23 | Because they are semi-skilled they are low rated but they have got to learn to fit in with our ways you know . |
| 24 | In this case and if the time constant RC also happens to equal the pulse duration τ Thus As anticipated , this integral is difficult to evaluate but it does reduce to the solution expected from chapter 4 of when when when Help with difficult inverse Fourier transforms is often available from special tables . |
| 25 | What would happen if you did n't drink enough milk and you did n't get enough calcium and your bones did n't grow but you kept eating lots of protein ? |
| 26 | All I do know is that we 're very conscious a great deal of money 's been spent by the Council and by the Trust to try and make the place outside more inviting those tubs been put there er they been planted etc there 's a lot of litter there we 've put litter bins there there 's taxi rank there there 's lot 's of things been put there I think the problem is it is n't the people who do that I mean it 's the people who actually do the litter and it 's quite clear that we do go out we do tidy up but it happens and it 's a case of balance of what we can do and what you ca n't do but we do work at it I can assure you . |
| 27 | I know I will do but I 've got t I 've got a few appointments for next week . |
| 28 | ‘ A lot of bad things have been said but I 've fulfilled a lifelong dream this season for which I 've worked very hard . ’ |
| 29 | Clinically no problem was seen but we preferred to place a second stent , more proximally , overlapping the first one , to correct this angulation . |
| 30 | The second bit I 've seen but I need to see the first bit . |