Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [pron] in [art] " 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 | look I said I do n't mind vinyl , I do n't mind good vinyl the only good , the only one that , it was good for the toilet , but I got it in a pack cos we 've got such a small single toilet |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | ‘ New-fangled ’ ideas , the farmer said , but I convinced him in the end . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ It would have taken forty-five minutes by bus , but I did it in a quarter of an hour by bike , ’ he said . |
| 9 | But I want somebody in every one of those companies . |
| 10 | No , but I hang it in the garage which is |
| 11 | But I see myself in a different life |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I was terrified of him , but I found myself in a horrible Catch 22 situation . |
| 14 | but she got it in the greens |
| 15 | They are comfortably familiar tunes , but she interprets them in an intensely personal way . |
| 16 | This was n't so easy , but she managed it in the end . |
| 17 | He tried to kiss her , but she evaded him in a half-angry , half-flirtatious way , so they were in the middle of a clumsy clinch when Lucaroni walked in . |
| 18 | ‘ I tried to reason with her after , but she locked herself in the bathroom , crying . |
| 19 | ‘ It took the better part of an hour to get to brass tacks , but we managed it in the end , sir . ’ |
| 20 | He is n't a cousin or any relation but we thought somebody in the town must know of him or where he went . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I think our second half performance was our worst for a long time , but we murdered them in the first . ’ |
| 22 | So where he is now , they really stretch them but they unwind them in the afternoons by games and and |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The teenager tried to run away when the youths approached him but they punched him in the face and pushed him to the ground . |
| 25 | It was fully half an hour before the farmer and the farmhands beat out all the flames , but they managed it in the end . |
| 26 | He tried to get away in his wheelchair , but they caught him in the hallway . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | But he told them in a straightforward way . |
| 29 | He had , of course , known those grandparents whose glamour made Alexandra 's existence so difficult , but he saw them in a light so different from his wife 's that they seemed hardly the same people . |
| 30 | I pulled him away and tried to get him upstairs in case he was traumatized for life , but he kicked me in the balls . |