Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] but [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Brendan designed it for hop pellets but I only use whole hops . ’ |
| 2 | FALLING interest rates may be good news for home buyers but they do n't do savers any favours . |
| 3 | We tried lots of rehearsal spaces but they were all a rip off and totally out of the way . |
| 4 | Such statistics aid our understanding of population movements but they mask the bewildering complexity that was the reality of the situation . |
| 5 | We do n't have many sitters capable of milking goats but we will provide someone if we can . ’ |
| 6 | But , you know I think it , I thought it was his dingy grey suit to begin with that smelt of moth balls but it , it was his breath . |
| 7 | As I recall it had all started about three months ago when Miss Court first joined the group of church helpers but she was more of a helper as we had never seen her at church before . |
| 8 | This is partly the result of government cutbacks but it also reflects the closure of business activities which were judged not to be viable plus the contracting out of many non-technical services and a continuing quest to achieve greater efficiency in all aspects of the business . |
| 9 | On the other side of the stream there was a collection of farm buildings but they linked to a different road further down . |
| 10 | We have had the chance of training courses but we get the information too late . ’ |
| 11 | Not only must we limit the scope of animal goals but we must also limit the sense of the claim that animals act for the sake of goals . |
| 12 | I ca n't remember when I first bought a box of Neocolor crayons but I do remember wondering just what they 'd do . |
| 13 | Not that I have anything against gas fitters but I do think that to do what I did at 15 takes a bit more courage . |
| 14 | GMB union official Mary Kenny said today ‘ Management have been talking about measures like pay cuts but we never expected anything like this . |
| 15 | they talk about surface features but I mean that 's gon na be e even more for people to understand . |
| 16 | Certainly there are commercially available recognition units which can be plugged into home computers but they are very unsophisticated . |
| 17 | The radial shields are also covered with rugose granules but it is possible to distinguish their position on the disk . |
| 18 | The children have to learn footwork , shadow boxing , and sparring and are encouraged to thump every ounce of their energy into punch bags but they have to wait until they are 11-years-old before they are allowed a real fight . |
| 19 | If it had been the following week with school holidays but I , I do think you 'd be very tired the next day . |
| 20 | It clashes with Family Fortunes but I must remember to tape that must n't I ? |
| 21 | And give us back the pride and the credibility that we once took for granted as trade unionists but we allowed to slip away from us , and make us a force to be reckoned with , and send this government a message , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to tell us how to run the G M B , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to prevent us from protecting our brothers and sisters and we 'll no never ever allow anyone at Westminster to defeat the trade union movement . |
| 22 | He told me that in the past insulin had been used to put people in coma states but he would n't dream of doing anything as crude or violent ; a silky drip of valium sedation was all that was required . |
| 23 | It is difficult to assess the effects of the first true humans in rain forests but it has been argued that the Australian aborigines may have been responsible for the removal of some of the Araucaria forest of tropical Queensland , leading to the advance of Eucalyptus there , as well as locally exterminating much of the megafauna . |
| 24 | Rats will live in rabbit burrows but they usually take over one section for themselves and the rabbits leave them in isolation . |
| 25 | It may be the last word in consumer issues but it has never been available on news stands . |
| 26 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ There 's a lot of talk about success in waiting lists but it is not at all clear that there is any great benefit that 's arisen here . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I have earned a comfortable living from Party Planners but I lost the bulk of my money as a Lloyd 's Name , ’ she said . |
| 29 | Software might be restricted , as in this book , to computer programs but it is sometimes used as the generic term to include all sources of information . |
| 30 | West Indians never went to self-defence classes but they can still beat us up . |