Example sentences of "but it [verb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I forget what this Susan woman said exactly , but it sounded to me as though Chris Parker did n't like the idea at first . |
| 2 | But it occurs to me that if they are having sex with their patients ( or clients ) regularly , this may well be the only useful thing they are doing for them . |
| 3 | The procedures look fine for the purchase of one-off and novel items , but it occurs to me that it would save time and effort if we established ‘ preferred suppliers ’ for standard PCs , printers , and peripherals , so that we do n't have to obtain multiple quotes and give reasons for supplier choice each time we order an off-the-shelf system . |
| 4 | But it sounds to me as though it 's taking something off the telephone , which is simple in n it ? |
| 5 | I know it 's just distortion , but it sounds like it was definitely done on one of these ! |
| 6 | The moral of this story , was , she assumed , that one must see the beauty in what one has , and not search for it elsewhere ; but it carried with it , inseparably , the real sadness of the fading windows , and the fact that those within the house could never see them shine . |
| 7 | It ill becomes a foreigner to look in and pontificate on a short visit but it seemed to me that Australia as a rich country had given them only material goods , which merely sapped their self-sufficiency and their self-respect . |
| 8 | But it seemed to me that I had not properly answered his question and that he was really voicing the unthinking complaint of the people who lived in the little houses all over the world . |
| 9 | I 'm rather unprepared for this one admittedly , but it seemed to me that if you 're quoting a member of the absent hierarchy , you might as well hear er from , from a present member . |
| 10 | But it seemed to me that , had they loved one another well , they would have been able to support one another in their tragedy . |
| 11 | Their marriages had fallen on stony ground but it seemed to me there was still hope . |
| 12 | ‘ Hello , my dear , ’ he said to his sister , but it seemed to me that his voice was not completely friendly . |
| 13 | But it seemed to me you 'd made certain assumptions … ’ |
| 14 | But it seemed to me that most of us were just acting . |
| 15 | Now I do n't know much about running gags from books previous that I ai n't been in , but it seemed to me that one of them was toting a 7.62 M134 General Electric Minigun , which in my books generally spells schadenfreude . |
| 16 | The second point i is this issue about self containment , er Mr Davis accused me this morning of using some somewhat outlandish words , I think , erm , I did obviously refer to the er my vision of what a new settlement of this size proposed would be , and I I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't expect that with the right planning that it could n't have clearly local facilities , local school , library , etcetera , but it seemed to me quite clear that the scale proposed it would not have the higher order functions which as we 've heard earlier , Greater York has been defined based on York 's planning assumptions , clearly the major shopping , educational , and social facilities will continue to be provided in the city , and it will produce what is in effect dormitory settlement . |
| 17 | well I can understand that , yes well I , I , I , just say was n't going to rule on this and I 'm not in , not er convinced at the moment it would be appropriate to rule on it er as part of the er , in any judgment I gave , but it seemed to me quite important on reflection to , to hear the way what you were putting it |
| 18 | There was nothing else to cause alarm but it seemed to him that every now and then the dark object from which the movement came itself heaved a little , grew larger , and then fell back . |
| 19 | She tried to recall when she had last passed a house , an AA box , a public telephone , but it seemed to her that she had been driving through deserted countryside for at least ten minutes . |
| 20 | Clara did not understand this story , but it seemed to her to tell of an emotion a size larger than pathos . |
| 21 | At last she fell asleep , but it seemed to her that she woke up some time in the night . |
| 22 | But it seemed to her that the women in the East End never got away from it : everlasting wet linen in the kitchen , smells of flat-irons and scorching , burns on their knuckles and puffy skin up to their elbows . |
| 23 | She was no naturalist , but it seemed to her that every living thing around her was controlled in some way , by some — force : prevented from over-breeding , over-growing . |
| 24 | Nenna had no more than an animal 's sense of direction and distance , but it seemed to her that the right thing to do would be to try to reach the City , then , once she got to Blackfriars , she knew where the river was , and though that would be Lambeth Reach or King 's Reach , a long way downstream of the boats , still , once she had got to the river she would be on the way home . |
| 25 | Obviously there was some kind of partnership involved , but it seemed to her that Adam did most of the running of the outfit . |
| 26 | Special needs again we 've highlighted , we have put in a token on the er in the primary sector erm it 's a notional amount , clearly we ca n't tell the schools how to spend their money but it seemed to us that the increasing in managerial role of primary deputy heads , they would welcome er a small increase in non con in non contact time . |
| 27 | She vaguely heard Matilda 's angry voice , but it came to her from a great distance . |
| 28 | There was , but it said on it Twelve foot six . |
| 29 | It was a terrifying thought , but it had behind it a lot of erm I think of force , and the point is that the primary school teacher who was getting the child to crouch before the Roman gladiator was not in the business of training professional historians , was much more interested in getting the child involved in an educational way , yet ironically was coming closer to perhaps what we 're trying to do at university now , than the teacher who was going through a list of the textile industries and so on . |
| 30 | But it does to them , because they 've got side A and side B on every tape . |