Example sentences of "[adv prt] but [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The players are down but they could not have given any more . ’ |
| 2 | You can perform relaxation exercises lying down but we would prefer if you try initially sitting in a comfortable armchair . |
| 3 | ‘ We may not bring them down but we can undermine their authority . ’ |
| 4 | And my pictures were upside down but I could see the rings of Saturn with it , which was more than what Galileo saw first when he looked , he thought there was two stars at either side of Saturn . |
| 5 | By the age of 25 or so the oiliness should be settling down but you may find yourself with a new problem : laughter and frown lines must finally be acknowledged as the first signs of an ageing skin . |
| 6 | I 'll write it down but you 'll have to write to see what father Christmas says . |
| 7 | These are all divides all the way down but you can change them all because you say four threes are twelve , seven threes are twenty one |
| 8 | Well , to me if a child has got a by all means encourage along but you should n't push them into anything cos later on in life they get a bloody complex about everything you know if they |
| 9 | Anyway , she was above all the lads in our year — she liked stringing them along but she could n't have fallen for any of them . |
| 10 | Any other and I put diabetes in there asthma is an illness which erm you may come across , it 's the clogging up , it 's something irri irritates the tubes , the windpipe and the bronchial tube and the person can not draw air in , well they can draw it in but they ca n't get it out and they 're , and they 're trying very hard and the noise , has anybody heard anybody with an asthma attack ? |
| 11 | but we 're having votes to see if we should let girls in but we should n't . |
| 12 | I think Dianne said she was gon na be in but she wo n't erm |
| 13 | I mean when , when , when she was home she could have spent the evening with us when all the children were there and joined in but she would n't , she cleared out back and that 's how Julie heard |
| 14 | He put his finger in but it would n't hop on to it . |
| 15 | It 's , you can put it in but you ca n't put it back with your fingers you do n't realize it when you go up and get it and you ai n't got enough |
| 16 | I had treaded in but you ca n't have treaded , still , oh a tyre is treaded is n't it ? |
| 17 | You may obviously you 're going to have two payments coming in but you may well find that you know they 're no longer on the same sort of day . |
| 18 | Well old was , was er absolute er you 'd never think anybody 'd would buy anything out of his shop , er my father went in for something once and he , and he said you can see them hanging up ca n't you , I mean er salesmanship was on unheard of as far as he was concerned they were there , why ask him if he 'd got any , but erm course you must remember I was only a little boy I mean I can remember all this , I took it all in but I would n't say that I knew them er I knew Miss , from the grocer 's shop she was a Sunday School teacher , and er the Sunday School used to be at Road School we used to have a Sunday School there and a Mr used to take this . |
| 19 | The roof of the barn concerns me because eventually it will fall in but I dare not start on it just yet — the house must take priority . |
| 20 | and lovely , I just woke up , er a couple of minutes before then the insurance lad come cos when I only , he should of come yesterday and I waited in but I could n't , you know when I opened the door I says I , I he says , you know |
| 21 | Well I could still get in but I could n't lock the door say no bugger off . |
| 22 | He worked in but he used to go and relieve the sailors and firemen in the steam boats he used to go you know . |
| 23 | They had never spoken of the future and what would happen when their time was through but they would , because a love so consuming could n't just end this way . |
| 24 | I mean all the papers wo n't be through but they can tell us whether it 's |
| 25 | ‘ The Palace deal nearly went through but it would not have been the same as this , ’ said Phelan . |
| 26 | They would they would never allow our men to go over but they would be there to take it . |
| 27 | Laidlaw had tacked his brains over and over but he could n't place the name . |
| 28 | ‘ Others go over but I would n't set foot there even in the height of summer ! |
| 29 | Really what I was saying is I , I think probably came over but I will rephrase it . |
| 30 | They wo n't mind odds-and-ends like us clearing off but they wo n't want to lose you . |