Example sentences of "[vb infin] but [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he drew near they heard the sickening crack of the rod striking flesh ; once , twice they heard it fall but it brought no anguished shout of pain in response . |
| 2 | We do n't know but somebody had a look at it , Shirley , the teacher . |
| 3 | Probably were n't I do n't know but they seemed to us I may be looking at it from a child 's eyes but er that 's how they seemed to be to me . |
| 4 | wh I remember that when I was at home it was a mixed sort of meeting in which some of the people from the village were coming who you did n't really know but they had to be asked |
| 5 | Then of course , then when they the kids went up , did n't know where they were going , and the parents did n't know but they found new found freedom because all the bloody kids had gone to the countryside |
| 6 | He veered higher over another kind of wood whose trees he did not know but which had lighter bark and were higher . |
| 7 | Right so maybe this is an intermediate stage , we do n't know but we know carbon dioxide comes out of it . |
| 8 | By whom I do not know but I intend to find out . |
| 9 | How the poor fellow finally got his report together I do not know but I doubt that even he did n't realise that he was dealing with a supernatural force that did what it liked when it liked . |
| 10 | He said well I do n't really know but I know he lives local somewhere . |
| 11 | And I said I do n't know but I said I should n't think it would be too late . |
| 12 | Oh I do n't know but I mean I would n't have thought so . |
| 13 | Well I do n't know but I mean not someone |
| 14 | I was actually quite low on the activists and higher on these three but I managed to wonder sometimes where I worked ever so hard on a session I ca n't really ca n't understand you know why it 's not going very well and I thought well when I then watched other people do something that had a lot of action I thought well why did they like that more and I never I did n't know but I 've actually learnt that you have to put activities in , cos you , you know you do get people with a very strong activist preference . |
| 15 | Aye it 's yeah it 's well I do n't know but I think it 's it is definitely coming on Friday . |
| 16 | I do n't know but I think I 'm supposed to , yeah that 'll do . |
| 17 | So I said well I said I really do n't know but I think so . |
| 18 | How this applies to the crew as well I do n't know but I expect Vic 's got some theory to cover it . |
| 19 | So how on earth they keep them to a schedule I do not know but I do n't want to know now . |
| 20 | We do n't know but I do n't know but that is a doubt as to whether the manufacturing flavour of the past will be carried on through the decade . |
| 21 | I do n't know but you know . |
| 22 | cos he did n't know but you did he said and you have to ge , when yo can you come round is tha |
| 23 | I , I 've not been near one , I would n't know but you have to stand next to them to get an effect , to kn know how big they are . |
| 24 | Whether it 's slipped again I do n't know but he said he 'll look . |
| 25 | But whether he really was a s time served one or not I do n't know but he did it then . |
| 26 | put it in the vice , I mean put it in the vice whether , whether it just pull the head off I do n't know but it came out |
| 27 | So we , the answer is we do n't really know but it seems common sense to apply barrier precautions and to do everything you can to modify the type of surgery so that the chances of having an injury with a sharp instrument are reduced , and people have made some constructive proposals along these lines . |
| 28 | , but she told Helen , I just called her an old cow and she put the phoned down , well if she thought I said cow , well I do n't know but she went and used that . |
| 29 | I do n't know but she likes his name . |
| 30 | She said , she did n't know but she getting somebody down here now ! |