Example sentences of "he [verb] but [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me he applied but I thought he told me he 'd been turned down . |
| 2 | Now I were bloody daft , If I 'd 've gone to the foreman and wanted to put a suggestion in , I , I , I 'd 've beat sure they were crowing abou when he got but I was first really was n't I ? |
| 3 | And he gets about , he did n't say what he got but it 's over the twenty three thousand drawings that er they 're worried about the level of er tax , you know , for the next |
| 4 | Webb , a Bristol surgeon , has secured the orthopaedic registrar 's position he sought but it will not , as initially feared , end his rugby career . |
| 5 | So that he ca n't see what 's going on , cos she thinks if he do n't see what 's going on he wo n't bark , but he cries but I mean she should n't have them there , she 's never here so she should n't have them , I mean look at the trouble Alan had to get Jessie , because they worked , but Emma goes home every lunch time to see to Jessie from the bank , but I mean the woman one of them would n't let her have a dog , one kennels , which is how it should be , but I mean this one breed those three herself so , yeah I mean if you breed dogs yourself and you have three in the house of the same breed , what the hell do you want an alsatian for , as well but the whole point is she do n't have them as enjoyment , she do n't have them as company |
| 6 | I know you will he disappointed but I really would like you to give me a change . " |
| 7 | Yeah he has but you need a very powerful microscope . |
| 8 | The lights went yellow as he approached but he just managed to squeeze through , to a chorus of horn blasts . |
| 9 | Tell him I 'll give him anything he wants but I must have time . ’ |
| 10 | about it the other day aye he says but they were n't supposed to cut anything down he said , they were only supposed to cut a bit off the top . |
| 11 | I do n't think he 's right in what he says but I think it might have been a bit tongue in cheek as well . |
| 12 | and he 's Ron you 're going to experience a lot of things that you 're not going be happy about he says but I 'll let you find out for yourself . |
| 13 | I know he says but I 'm losing weight and I might go back to where I was |
| 14 | so he says but I do n't know what to do he says cos if there 's a job you know , if there 's any overtime , cos there ai n't been none but if there 's any overtime he says I do n't know what to do I said bloody do the overtime , let her hang about . |
| 15 | and he says they looked he says but I never forgot what I looked like , or what I when he started , but you ca n't join the boys ' service now . |
| 16 | he must of done Arthur , he moved and pulled everything , he 's ever such a good boy , he 's says to ya , I do n't know why he says but I can eat as much as I can , said I never get fat , I said I know why you do n't get fat |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Yeah , he says but he did n't want to buy er five by fours . |
| 19 | But he says but he 'll not accepts the eleven o'clock . |
| 20 | He was not rewarded with the birdie four he deserved but it did not matter . |
| 21 | Bunny kept talking as he drove but I had no idea what he was saying . |
| 22 | Erm now and again he practises but he usually tries to do it when I 'm not here but erm not |
| 23 | They all fixed in a pure tenseness of watching as he shaved but he did not cut himself . |
| 24 | He shaved but he did not wash and his bright , shallow smile was like the contentment of a piglet fresh from the teat . |
| 25 | Well he did but we did n't sort of take Christopher . |
| 26 | Some time later a man came along the path and stopped to ask me if I was all right , I told him yes and to please go away , which he did but I thought he 'll go to fetch help so I 'd better do it now . |
| 27 | On Wednesday night he did but it was n't Bangor wearing their usual strip … they are also Apoel Nicosia 's colours and it was the Cypriots who squeezed through 3-2 on aggregate . |
| 28 | It was wrong what he did but he should be shown compassion . ’ |
| 29 | He sh he did but he did n't . |
| 30 | Fernando Serra could make all the threats he liked but he could n't stop her carrying on her business . |