Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] them [prep] [art] " 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 | At planning meetings with the senior management I often had to endure predictable little jokes about Andreas 's ‘ harem ’ , but I took them with a good grace . |
| 3 | They did n't want him , but I persuaded them in the end . |
| 4 | ‘ I have a full staff here but I released them for the fiesta in Palma . |
| 5 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 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 | ‘ But you tell them about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ . ’ |
| 8 | They are comfortably familiar tunes , but she interprets them in an intensely personal way . |
| 9 | but she leaves them with the neighbours or a neighbour , but I mean it 's all different to bringing them up yourself , in n it ? |
| 10 | ‘ I think our second half performance was our worst for a long time , but we murdered them in the first . ’ |
| 11 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 12 | So where he is now , they really stretch them but they unwind them in the afternoons by games and and |
| 13 | But they took them into the castle at Montgomery , prisoners . ’ |
| 14 | But they sell them without an import licence — which is illegal , In practice , the licences are monopolised by the brands ' parent companies , who can afford the extensive clinical trials on the drugs that are necessary for licensing . |
| 15 | Our high-rise flats were based on Scandinavian flats , but they build them to a much higher standard . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | But he told them in a straightforward way . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The students followed but he threatened them with a knife before running off . |
| 20 | The January price rises [ see p. 38730-31 ] had been higher than expected and painful , but he described them as the logical conclusions of the policies of Soviet Prime Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and Valentin Pavlov . |
| 21 | Ben moved across to the other side s ) f the window , trying to keep them in sight , but he lost them in a moment . |
| 22 | He may use tools of analysis developed within a wider European tradition , but he applies them to a special problem : the uniqueness of our nation 's formation ; the condition of England . |
| 23 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 24 | Oh yes , but he wants them for the whole of the year you see , which is impossible . |