Example sentences of "[verb] but [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They compared her , in advance , to similar women in the States who had manifestly succeeded but when they interviewed her , and found how she differed from the stereotype , they were even more intrigued . |
| 2 | You can have a Snack if you want but if you do you wo n't have one for school tomorrow . |
| 3 | I , when , when we go down to playschool I walk but because it takes what fifteen minutes to walk into town I put him in the pushchair |
| 4 | ‘ We are n't saying we agree with what he 's done but if he knew we were there and we loved him it would have come out differently . |
| 5 | Mind , I 'm not bothered but if you get them little'uns they last no time do they ? |
| 6 | I think erm I think is quite fair maybe if concessions could be raised to one fifty or two pounds but overall I think that people who can afford it spend such a lot of money on the raffle and we therefore give raffle tickets to those who can afford it could jealousy and on the raffle generally about a hundred pounds is made and if there , if there was more charge for tickets , people might not give so much for the raffles and also if you give but if you charge them a nominal sum and then shove other things at them on their options they might be more willing to give to optional choices like a raffle . |
| 7 | She did n't know whether or not he was sniffing but when I searched his room I found empty aerosols . |
| 8 | and erm providing it 's nothing , sort of major and that forty nine pounds will cover but if they find anything major they 're it 's on top of their forty nine pounds ! |
| 9 | If you thrash a horse it will hurt but if you touch it with a whip it 's a tactile thing which is far less than a horse nudging another one |
| 10 | It 's a game of chance in n it I mean you pay your money , you you you come here to lose but if you win it' a bonus . |
| 11 | And the reason it likes you is not because of the bucket of wild oats you bring but because it thinks you are a horse too . |
| 12 | I know but as I said they have you by the short and curlies . |
| 13 | Er n back to these snaps that erm John takes but as I said they 're pictures of the rooms before he alters them , before he puts in a new decor , th the upholstery , furnishings and the erm |
| 14 | You feel But when you got it on right , you feel sort of like , mm mm mm , mm mm mm mm ! |
| 15 | So anyway I er the War came and went but before it went I was in , went int eh Army of course . |
| 16 | It took time , it took time , it took a period of years till they got it finalized but when we got it finalized , we had for example er welding areas , in which no one was allowed in unless they were a welder you know . |
| 17 | If you 've got a guy gathered , I 'm not saying try but if you got somebody who , who did the job and gathered it in like they would do . |
| 18 | Er the Director of Transportation recognises that , it was said that he 's happy to await the outcome of liberations by that er District Council and that 's what the Conservative group has suggested that we do but if he wants you to recognise that every policy has to be accepted , the way in which they have performed time and decided to be addressed by my members of of all parties and therefore I urge you to support the Conservative resolutions I now put forward . |
| 19 | ‘ I can not say when I will retire but when I do it will still be madness . |
| 20 | I said I said oh I said I ca n't wait to lose this guts and those two were sitting there while I dressed and I said oh my guts and oh how I hate them , I said but if I lost them I mean |
| 21 | Because you 're seen in public and you do sing in public , there 's a lot of people that sing but as you say it 's sometimes just in their own homes or they used to but they would never sing in public , they used to sing in the choir . |