Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er er , but er well it 's not a perfect analogy but you see the point I 'm making . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I knew my club would hit the rock but I popped the ball up to 20ft and two-putted . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , ’ said Pete , ‘ the tractor 's nice and I like the motor boat but I like the wee red car best . |
| 4 | Tessa , a keen machine knitter , was a little nervous as she had just moved from the South and was conscious of the supposed North/South divide but she found the warmest welcome . |
| 5 | The defending solicitor tried to fault her on identification but she described the car as having a metallic paint job , wide wheels and a number of triangular stickers in the rear window ; she also thought that she could remember a couple of fluffy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror , and she gave the first three letters of the registration number . |
| 6 | Mr Bellingham said : ‘ We do n't want to condone anyone who breaks the law but I think the extreme sentences on these men are completely out of order . ’ |
| 7 | Go on I tell you what why do n't you flip it over and start on the other side , even though it says this side done , this is an old tape from a seismograph and er we were afraid to use it in our work but I think the sound 's alright on it , you flip it over and where it says this side down , put that side up and use the other half of the tape and let me hear your comments back . |
| 8 | Mr Buxton would not say how many companies were bidding for the work but he hoped the successful tender would be accepted in March , allowing work to start . |
| 9 | I mentioned to her about renting , she said that she had n't , you know , took that idea out the window but she said the only thing is your at the beck and call of the landlord . |
| 10 | Er there was a titanic party battle but I think the turn out , the local election turn out was over sixty percent which is dramatically high for local government elections . |
| 11 | The caddie 's face showed his disapproval but he took the cover off the driver and handed it to his pro . |
| 12 | ‘ I am not the bravest of men , I 'll be honest I did not like Sir Ralph using me as a page boy but he distrusted the others . ’ |
| 13 | I still thought it meant the truck was used for hunting but I asked the labs to check her clothing just in case . |
| 14 | ‘ Helloooo — I 'm sorry to ring you at home but I represent the High Hills Park Golf Course and Leisurama Centre and we 'd like you to open our new Theme Park and Sub-Aqua Scuba Centre . |
| 15 | Contemporary Soviet commentators were reticent on this reference to the Zone but they praised the Non-Aligned for condemning the attempts of ‘ external forces … to aggravate tensions in the region and set one group of countries against the other ‘ and for stressing the need for ’ a comprehensive political solution of the problems of the present tensions in Southeast Asia ’ . |
| 16 | He told reporters the United States was still committed to getting enforcement of the no-fly zone but he left the impression US allies were still opposed . |
| 17 | The wretched animal could only carry away one chicken but he bit the heads off all the others in a sheer lust of killing . ’ |
| 18 | Possibly they had all gone off looking for help but I found the child and I cradled the child round my neck with some sort of rag and headed off back to Basra . |
| 19 | He locked away his books on Catholic theology but she took the bus to the Westminster Cathedral and bought more from the bookshop there . |
| 20 | It was the number one awkward question but I discerned the faintest gleam of hope ; he had spoken in the unmistakable harsh , glottal accent of my home town . |
| 21 | You take the two , the smaller digit from the larger digit but you give the answer the sign of a larger digit . |
| 22 | Like most such documents it was probably an exaggeration but it marked the approaching end of a peculiarly rich period of vitality in the county . |
| 23 | There was some feeling among his staff that AEAs corporate strategy of ‘ All sticking together ’ had been undermined by the latest announcement but he believed the best way forward was in maintaining standards of service and keeping customers . |
| 24 | She said her husband had always been a bully and used to say they were both partners with a voting right but he had the casting vote . |
| 25 | Right , they do n't change much as a result of the degrees of freedom er adjustment okay with er squared distribution yes , sort of different distribution but we interpret the tables in exactly the same way so if you just have a look on your screen erm , there 's an L M version of the serial correlation test , right , and that has a squared distribution one right and the test statistic we obtain on your screens is calculated in two point eight eight , no two point zero eight . |
| 26 | excuse the wrapping but it keeps the |
| 27 | Mary McKenna , playing in the tournament for the 25th year , could have made it a tie by winning the bottom match but she lost the 15th and 16th to go two down , won the 17th with a big birdie putt and salvaged a half when her opponent , Fiona McKay drove into bushes at the 18th . |
| 28 | Cassie was tempted to attract his attention but she resisted the temptation and contented herself with gazing at his undoubted magnificence . |
| 29 | The visitors had by far the better chances in the second period but they lacked the confidence to take them . |
| 30 | Derry City 's new boy conceded Roy Coyle 's side had been going through a lean period but he said the lads would bounce back . |