Example sentences of "[pers pn] but [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereby he had represented to the finance company that the van was not his but that it belonged to the trader . |
| 2 | And I want it like yours but like you said I 'd have to buy erm Artex and get Chris to do it . |
| 3 | I do n't know about you but once I pick these Mills and Boone books up I ca n't stop reading the flipping things . |
| 4 | No they 're ca n't you see by retaliating , they are getting at you but if they had n't of got to you , you would n't of retaliated Like if I , i i it 's like if I |
| 5 | If you go to see this football club to watch the football match , you are not allowed to park on the grass verge outside because the police do n't let you but if you go to a car boot sale at the football club the next day the cars , the grass verge is littered with cars cos it 's Sunday presumably and the police are not allowed to enforce on it so I do think that some of the traffic problems maybe need to be more carefully reinforced to stop this , you know , to stop the dealers you 're not going tyo these places but you know I think you do need to , you do need to , to regulate them but please , you know , do n't let's push them out altogether . |
| 6 | But what date it was I could n't tell you but if you like to mind when when they first started . |
| 7 | You go inside then please go on you can take that with you but if you want the potty you g go and sit on it now cos I do n't want any more wet trousers . |
| 8 | Or simply told the truth — told them there and now that it was n't Syl 's smile that repelled me but that I had an intuitive conviction that there was something unsound in him , something unwholesome by virtue of being undeveloped , something that would , sooner or later , cause me to turn on him with bitter cruelty as Nour had turned on me . |
| 9 | I admitted he visited me but that I 'd had a history of violence with him , and anyway I 'd got an injunction . |
| 10 | I had hoped you would be able to help me but since you say you ca n't I shall have to pursue other avenues . |
| 11 | I think he had a little corner in his heart for me but if we had got together and he had gone off with someone else I could n't have stood the hurt and humiliation . |
| 12 | If I was born in that period , I would be dead already , and you would n't need to listen to me But if you look at this as far as the medical profession and the insurance profession need each other , what happened to these people when they develop an infective condition ? |
| 13 | ‘ I pushed the pram to the top of the street I was afraid they were following me but when I looked round there was nobody there so I just ran to my mum 's . ’ |
| 14 | An O S one to fifty thousand and that 's what I thought I 'd picked up this morning to take with me but when I looked it was Chester and Wrexham so it did n't do me much good . |
| 15 | Oh well we 've been walking when we 've gone into town but I mean just between you and me but when I got home Bev said pop into town I 've got a parcel to post and I said well I ca n't I said because according to Des well nothing happened |
| 16 | ‘ I do trust George completely ’ Annette went on ‘ I just have to with his work and so much he ca n't tell me but when he come back in that state I just could n't help … |
| 17 | Not because I thought I should have been picked there were at least 15 guys playing better than me but because I had n't performed as I felt I should have done . |
| 18 | I only hope that you will never have to read this letter — not because my life is worth anything to me but because it breaks my heart to think of you alone in a world which I have found to be so harsh and unforgiving . |
| 19 | The plates still had some food on them but although I found some meat , it had a strange gloopy liquid on it so I gave it a miss . |
| 20 | If you can hear me you must be within five or six miles of them but if they get to the Motorway first they 'll be able to lose you . |
| 21 | At times the sounds seemed so close he could have reached out and touched them but if he moved from his spot everything fell silent . |
| 22 | She really has this er attitude which I can not understand because erm a a as I think it was Al Reeve said , you know , erm some people ca n't bear children , we ca n't , but we like them but if you have actually borne children , you are in other words a mother , you 've got ta have a attitude , not only to children in general but to your children in particular , which is very very difficult for er a male to understand and a non-father , it 's gon na be very very difficult cos I personally do n't have any children at all and therefore it is very very difficult for me to even comprehend but given that I can erm I can sympathize with something I do not comprehend it must be monumentally difficult for her |
| 23 | She said : ‘ I 'm disappointed I did n't catch them but if it happens again I 'll get ‘ em . ’ |
| 24 | Stuart pointed just ahead of them but as he spoke , a little white Mini sped past them and slid into the place he had spotted . |
| 25 | They wanted to keep them happy , they let them carry on with their religion , it did n't interest them but when it comes down to serious things like killing erm political agitators , the Romans wanted to deal with that themselves . |
| 26 | The number of people to whom he is a friend , if not because he has met them but because they know of the good works that he has done not only in Britain but throughout the world , must run into many hundreds of thousands . |
| 27 | At the time I believed that I surrendered completely to him but that he did not surrender completely to me . |
| 28 | One night Major , Deekie as he was known , came down to inspect and the young chappy who was on guard , he challenged him properly er before he allowed him to advance towards him but after he 'd advanced toward him and he 'd been recognized Major says is the rifle alright ? |
| 29 | I meant to be open with him but when it came to it I beat about the bush . |
| 30 | Lee wondered why the barman tolerated him but when she looked towards the bar she saw that the barman seemed hypnotized by the antics of the pub 's female singer , not pleasantly , but as if he had been created permanently attached to a painful but essentially dependable puzzle . |