Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't want to appear awkward , ’ said Lili that evening , ‘ but she looks like something the cat dragged in . ’ |
| 2 | They were beasts , not men , but they had about them the features of nightmare , of ghosts , and though she recognized the animals of the forest in limbs , teeth and eyes , what struck her most powerfully was the element of madness in them . |
| 3 | But they went about it the wrong way . |
| 4 | But they went from him the way they did in dreams . |
| 5 | The old legends have not only this factor of being immortal , but they have in them the property of conferring the peak experience . |
| 6 | This is merely routine arrogance , but it obscures from them the fact that they could impress everyone a lot more if they could do a better job — and with a bit of help they could . |
| 7 | I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it . |
| 8 | But it carries with it the usual problem associated with rapid and anonymous observations , viz. lack of information on the social identity of the speaker . |