Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't want him , but I persuaded them in the end . |
| 2 | I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . " |
| 3 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 4 | My superior self had taken over-call it the result of time-shock , if you will , but I felt myself in the presence of myth and , by association , accepted myself as mythical ! |
| 5 | ‘ New-fangled ’ ideas , the farmer said , but I convinced him in the end . |
| 6 | This repeated general principles well known to a ( l good teachers , but I wanted them in the Report so there could be no doubt about the kind of teaching we admired . |
| 7 | No , but I hang it in the garage which is |
| 8 | Hobbs v. Clark was considered and followed in two further driver 's option cases , Director of Public Prosecutions v. Magill [ 1988 ] R.T.R. 337 and Regan v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1990 ] R.T.R. 102 , but I find nothing in the judgments in these cases which provides independent support for what I have called the doctrine of driver 's preference . |
| 9 | Yeah but my done it in the morning go rush out to the post box |
| 10 | Lasswell ( 1960 , p. 195 ) sums up this scepticism about the rule of law : ‘ The number of statutes which pass the legislature , or the number of decrees which are handed down by the executive , but which change nothing in the permanent politics of society , is a rough index of the role of magic in politics ’ . |
| 11 | but she got it in the greens |
| 12 | This was n't so easy , but she managed it in the end . |
| 13 | ‘ I tried to reason with her after , but she locked herself in the bathroom , crying . |
| 14 | ‘ It took the better part of an hour to get to brass tacks , but we managed it in the end , sir . ’ |
| 15 | He is n't a cousin or any relation but we thought somebody in the town must know of him or where he went . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I think our second half performance was our worst for a long time , but we murdered them in the first . ’ |
| 17 | So where he is now , they really stretch them but they unwind them in the afternoons by games and and |
| 18 | But they had one in the corner you see and I could see the back leg was gone said to Margaret an said I might as well do something of that , you know , to do up it 's the only one that they had there that wanted really wanted repairing , so the feller said ooh I do n't know he said hang on , I 'll look in the book . |
| 19 | The teenager tried to run away when the youths approached him but they punched him in the face and pushed him to the ground . |
| 20 | It was fully half an hour before the farmer and the farmhands beat out all the flames , but they managed it in the end . |
| 21 | He tried to get away in his wheelchair , but they caught him in the hallway . |
| 22 | Mind you do n't your tongue with that I tell you what they had in er Woolies market as well , I do n't know whether you 've seen them and I do n't , I 've not got you know an old Argos catalogue to compare prices , cos they 've not got it in the summer one , but they have them in the winter ones , it 's like a , a tool box , but it 's on wheels and you make it up , you , you know all the screws and the wheels come out and you 're not , it 's all plastic , I think it must be from age three , because of the little bits , and it 's like erm , I 've seen it somewhere , where I 've been , it has little figures sat in this erm , what would you , it 's like erm , a bit like a truck , yeah , and it 's got the , the figures in it |
| 23 | I pulled him away and tried to get him upstairs in case he was traumatized for life , but he kicked me in the balls . |
| 24 | His Irish wife , Aylish O'Flaherty , ran off with their son , whom she feared would be raised as a heretic ; this was enough , by the statutes of the time , to have the marriage dissolved and the boy dispossessed ; but he distinguished himself in the Civil War , raising a troop of horse for the royalists , while the castle was occupied by Cromwellian troops . |
| 25 | Yeah , yeah was kind , it was kind of them , yes and we went all round the shops and er I thoroughly enjoyed it and in the new Co-Op as well you know , I thoroughly enjoyed it but he took me in the car so that we did n't have to hang about you see |
| 26 | She did not provide him with wine , to be sure , but he took it in the caffè he frequented , a caffè where politics were argued over far into the night and the arguers fell asleep at the table . |
| 27 | When he 'd finished at the sink I came out and wound myself lovingly around his legs but he shut me in the kitchen . |
| 28 | But it got him in the end . |
| 29 | It seems necessary to remind de Man ( who claims that " deconstruction is not something that we have added to the text but it constituted it in the first place " ) of Todorov 's statement that de Man himself quotes in Blindness and Insight : |
| 30 | This might have been all very well for my ego but it put me in the position of a complete novice , with my boss listening critically from the platform to everything I said on his behalf . |