Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] but [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we I think the only way we can actually really do this is is to pick one from area , one from your area , one from area and one from Europe and just have er almost arbitrary er decision but justify it . |
| 2 | Erm and so now rich peasants are actually actively seeking to join er associations but finding it difficult , I mean they have to be er pay an additional admission fee may be ten yuan or , or whatever , you know , usually far higher than the normal peasant or erm they have to get someone to actually put their name forward to say that you know they 're not such a bad bloke . |
| 3 | Shadow National Heritage spokesman Ann Clywd was also pleased with the Government 's plans but warned they must not put pools staff out of work . |
| 4 | Caroline cut the split ends off Meera 's hair but decided she should keep the length . |
| 5 | This not only gave the masters an extra hour 's work but saved them having to pay the breakfast allowance of 1½d ( 0.6p ) . |
| 6 | Finally , she left for the airfield in a pale-green safari suit , which marked her a soldier 's wife but distinguished her from the lesser spouses . |
| 7 | It is as if the wife remembers a detail out of the Miller 's Tale but misattributes it ( deliberately or by accident ) to the wrong context . |
| 8 | Only one thing stood out : Benjamin said there was a scorch mark on the outside of Cosmas 's door but claimed it could be old . |
| 9 | The RL board of directors accepted Steadman 's explanation but said he was ‘ irresponsible ’ in not checking the contents of the medicine which he bought from a chemist 's shop . |
| 10 | He thought of taking the man 's rifle but knew it was too heavy for him and that he would be incapable of aiming it . |
| 11 | The second one is erm a bottom up study which is based on today 's commitments but projecting them forward into the timescale in which we will have the aircraft and looking in that way to see how many and and in what way we would need them . |
| 12 | Catt accepts that it was only a minor detail in her boyfriend 's sacking but feels it has a relevance . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm proud that this will be done , not only in Father 's memory but to remind us of how the stories came to be . ’ |
| 14 | The husband is one potentially appreciative figure in the housewife 's landscape but does he play this role effectively ? |
| 15 | McLeish instantly understood the man 's nightmare but realized he could give only qualified reassurance . |
| 16 | Indeed , Berry was offered the Brooklyn pastorate after Beecher 's death but declined it . |
| 17 | The Court accepted that the agreement did not formulate precisely the inhabitants ' rights but thought them sufficiently precise for judicial enforcement . |
| 18 | On 29 July 1991 Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C. [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 857 dismissed the solicitors ' summons but gave them leave to appeal . |