Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb base] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have not discussed the essays by d " Auzac , Asher , Frowe , McGonigal , Seitz and Gibson , but I recommend them to the reader 's attention . |
| 2 | ‘ I never thought it would be so , but I miss her like the devil ! ’ |
| 3 | I disagreed with much of what he had to say , but I welcome him to the House from this Bench and look forward to debating these issues with him on many occasions . |
| 4 | But I put it at the bottom of the list and consider it can really be done without . |
| 5 | But I put it on the table because it is a risk . |
| 6 | I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . " |
| 7 | I am still very critical of my own shape but I console myself with the fact that while it is far from perfect , it is better than it used to be . |
| 8 | She struggles , eyes widening further , but I pin her to the sheets with my weight and keep the glove firmly over her mouth even though she is n't making any noise . |
| 9 | Yeah but I want it for the men that 's going to alter the gas . |
| 10 | My final choice will doubtless find few supporters elsewhere , but I want someone with the dynamism to ensure that no winning opportunity is missed . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm extremely sorry , Monsieur de Chavigny , but I have someone on the line who wants to speak to you personally . |
| 12 | No , but I hang it in the garage which is |
| 13 | He is certainly all that , but I see him as the new Jasper Johns — that great transformer of icons — with sex , shopping and the detritus of the suburbs in place of Johns 's targets , beer cans and flags . |
| 14 | But I think we with the wet stuff we 've had going through , the chute is blocking up . |
| 15 | Tough shit really , but I soften it for the sake of the delicacies of future interaction . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | But you pat me on the bottom and send me home , and hope I 'll ‘ keep in touch ’ ! |
| 19 | ‘ But you tell them about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ . ’ |
| 20 | Clovis 's campaigns and ruses against other Frankish rulers should perhaps be seen as power struggles within a small kin-group , and therefore as precursors of the civil wars that were to follow , but we know nothing about the connections between the petty kings of the years prior to 511 . |
| 21 | We already have a car , motor cycle and bicycle lined up , but we need someone for the bus and train . |
| 22 | So where he is now , they really stretch them but they unwind them in the afternoons by games and and |
| 23 | And erm I did n't get the actual job I went for but they put me on the , on the relief register so that I go round to different people 's homes or different big hospitals and different Mencap homes relieving people when they 're on holiday or if they 're short of staff or something like that . |
| 24 | Yes but they take it from the book . |
| 25 | They discuss how information is processed to achieve a particular end ( storage and retrieval in memory , for example ) , but they say nothing about the borderline to be drawn between the conscious and unconscious parts of these procedures . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | Women are responsible for family finances but they have none of the power that goes with possession . |