Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consumer will be informed to keep the product away from his eyes but if it does get in the eyes , to wash them out and seek medical advice . |
| 2 | In San Salvador , the Committee headquarters is a table under the shelter of three mango trees in the garden of the Archbishopric- Their files are kept in the garden shed where the CDHES has its offices but when it rains , there is no alternative but to close up shop . |
| 3 | Most of these possibilities exclude animals but where they do not ( we might , for example , feel it appropriate to praise the sheepdog by saying that it has earned the right to a good meal ) the attribution is clearly analogical since it is based upon such a slim comparison with human capacity . |
| 4 | Er so we are all very keen to see this get these extra fire fighters but as he has n't identified the source for which they could pay more , this believes that fifty thousand pounds which slices , there is a good way of doing it and suggest that that 's the way we should do it . |
| 5 | Well as long as you do n't mind the high mileage cars but if they 've been going up and down the motorway all the time |
| 6 | At the time the offer had thrilled her , not because of the pearls but because it had indicated she would be in his life in the future . |
| 7 | Our problem is not that we have the wrong answers to particular doubts but that we do not have the right attitude to doubt in general . |
| 8 | Recourse is already had to white papers and official reports not because they determine the meaning of the statutory words but because they assist the court to make its own determination . |
| 9 | But I thought good structure control overall , painted pictures well erm and I think perhaps just probe a bit more just a little bit stronger than you are at painting pictures but as you see a picture paints a thousand words . |
| 10 | Although she felt a little guilty about letting him do it Sally found she quite liked the feel of his fingers stroking her flesh and teasing her nipples but when he tried to put his hand up her skirt beneath her scratchy petticoats she tried to stop him . |
| 11 | For example , we would often go on expeditions to Hay-on-Wye looking for French , nineteenth-century pattern books but if you found any yourself you could not possibly claim originality . |
| 12 | There followed a time of uncertainty and bloodshed which was eventually resolved when the republic developed into an empire with Augustus as its first emperor from 27 B.C. The Augustan period from then until his death in A.D. 14 was one of the great and successful ages of man and , architecturally , this is reflected in the many great buildings which were erected under the auspices of Augustus whose boast was that when he came to Rome it was a city of bricks but that he left it a city of marble . |
| 13 | The questions involved did not relate to the guilt or innocence of the defendants but whether they had been wrongfully deprived of material which should have been available to them in preparing for the trial and for use at the trial if relevant . |
| 14 | Because now after one hundred metres you 've got two posts after two hundred metres you 've got three posts , after three hundred metres you got four posts , after four hundred metres you 've got five posts but after you 've five hundred metres you 've only got five posts cos that one doubles up . |
| 15 | Yeah but do n't you think he he he finds , I mean if alright y y you 're not ex always exactly like your parents but if you 've bro , if he 's brought up , his mother 's lazy |
| 16 | The bodice hung in folds but when she pulled the belt good and tight it did n't look so bad . |
| 17 | CHARITIES are losing money not so much because of the practice of suggesting the amount of donations but because they impose such high postal charges on the goods they offer . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ They were shooting in all directions but as I drove towards them on my tractor they started to run . |
| 19 | We , very seldom that we have boiled potatoes but if I wanted a potato I think to cover all the needs to keep , I would go for Desiree because that one will fit almost any bill at all , it 'll do everything , it 's the best all round potato , late potato that I have ever grown and eaten . |
| 20 | ten which would actually give you a B in , in , in normal circumstances but as you know we 're only allowed to give you a C. Right and there 's a few notes in there as well , did I 'll tick your box on your one . |
| 21 | We have all had these emotions but when they reach such a pitch that our suppression of them can not cope , we explode , turning against whoever or whatever is in our way in an attempt to destroy it . |
| 22 | ‘ Before she went to university she had great expectations but when she got there she was disappointed . |
| 23 | Well she was in her younger days but after she married Aye after I was born I ca n't mind her being away . |
| 24 | I mean , everybody took loads of everything in those days but if you have an incredible tour schedule and you can find a way of having extra energy , which you can get with cocaine , you overdo it if you have n't ever had it before in such huge quantities , and you 're that big , and girls come to the dressing room afterwards , and everybody gives you free packets , and suddenly you 're everybody 's pal . |
| 25 | Well her daddy he 's not so bad , he 's I think he has two long days but as you say well sh sh you ca n't |
| 26 | I mean it 's not a major issue I mean it is an issue it 's not a major issue it 's just that there have been one or two occasions like where we have cross purposes but considering you know they are a relatively minor tour operator I would n't want that to muddy the water because that was just just erm a misunderstanding . |
| 27 | I hope to see most of you personally over the next few weeks but if I do n't then can I say ‘ Thanks ’ and ‘ All the Best for a healthy and prosperous future . ’ |
| 28 | Belfast loyalists did not vote for Seawright because he wanted to burn Catholics but because he lived in a council flat , spoke up for those loyalists who tried to kill IRA men , and was not prepared to abandon working-class Protestants in order to appear respectable . |
| 29 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 30 | A lady who suffers with a hiatus hernia wrote , ‘ I have had to take Rennies after meals for years but since I have been on this diet I have n't had a Rennie for five weeks ! |