Example sentences of "[pers pn] but [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I but we 've got two products there . |
| 2 | He 's still kept his but he 's got lived in , all the property he owns he can have the town square , there 's nothing ! |
| 3 | I do n't want to threaten you but you 've forced me into a corner . |
| 4 | But if you phone up and they 've got one they reserve it for you but you have to get it that day , were n't it Bev ? |
| 5 | ‘ It 's your father , ’ Spencer said , ‘ I 'm sorry to be the one to tell you but you have to know , he is in financial difficulties . ’ |
| 6 | I do n't want to rush you but I 've booked at the bistro down the road for nine o'clock so we ought to have this drink and go . ’ |
| 7 | I 've never met you but I 've had to think about you a good deal during the past few weeks , mainly because my young daughter Jean has been unable to think of anything or anyone else ! |
| 8 | I had every intention of refusing when I interviewed you but I had read your articles . |
| 9 | Again , this I have n't got an example to show you but I have seen one of these that 's caught fire and the only reason it 's caught fire is because this total piece of equipment is only capable of taking a maximum of thirteen amps . |
| 10 | I am writing hurriedly to you but I have thought it right to apprize you of this … |
| 11 | The boys could n't believe me but they had to do what I told them to do … . |
| 12 | I did n't bring any of it with me but everyone 's seen the tall hat have n't they ? |
| 13 | you u u use your brain a bit more , see now if er they used to come to me , my brother was one , he 'd come to me and he 'd say , right I 've got a heavy lift , so will you come up here and sling it for me but we had to put the slings round the heavy lift , say , I say right I 'll come up and another time we had a railway carriage come down like that 'll be shipped abroad , old railway carriage . |
| 14 | I was devastated when he said he fancied me but we 've started a relationship . |
| 15 | She said it 's a big , big cut off , if your phone rings you 're out , so of course the phone were ringing , then it went to one in post , no it never , it went first from Ann from Lynnette then to Ann and then it went to Kathy and then it went to erm somebody else and then it come to me but I 've got seven hundred thousand pounds worth of money on my desk that I were banking and Jane had got that job and Jane was on post in cash cos she ai n't got a job cos that thing with them shoes did n't take off and do you know |
| 16 | But I got twe so that Mark blamed it on me but I 'd sussed it , as soon as starts tramping |
| 17 | They dropped their voices to a whisper when they saw me but I 'd seen them taking nips from a bottle of gin . |
| 18 | In 1941 , all factories were moved out of Leningrad ( as St Petersburg was called from 1924 to 1991 ) and I took my son with me but I had to leave my husband behind . |
| 19 | This prospect is pleasing to me but I have seen Mr Landor and confess myself alarmed . |
| 20 | She 's really beginning to annoy me but I have to get the job done : I just want to go back downstairs . |
| 21 | Tommy Gilmour , Clinton 's manager , said last night : ‘ Pat had tried to go through the pain barrier and keep his injury from me but I have taken the decision to withdraw him after consultation with an orthopaedic surgeon . ’ |
| 22 | John began the season better than me but I have fought to catch up . |
| 23 | surprise me but he 's got erm , he ha he wears glasses does n't he ? |
| 24 | During the last Energy Question Time , more than a fortnight ago , he promised to write to me but he has failed to do so . |
| 25 | The ground had rushed up before them but they had survived . |
| 26 | Swindon Town are through to the third round of the Coca Cola Cup after a nine-two aggregate win over Torquay … and tonight Oxford United will be trying to join them but they 've got to win at Aston Villa … |
| 27 | Notts in this first half are going to be as they like to be , attacking the Kop end , a Kop end which is utterly deserted because Pisa have n't brought any fans with them but they 've brought a very large following of journalists , and as I said in the initial two-way with Martin , there has been a language barrier between them and me , but when they pointed to the weather and all shivered together , I knew precisely what they meant . |
| 28 | People will say we should beat them but we 've seen how difficult this trip has been so far . |
| 29 | " Well , " says the official , " nobody can help because of all the rules and regulations — we do n't make them but we have to abide by them . " |
| 30 | Oh Mrs , she said she 'd be , she would do them but she 'd felt absolutely terrified at the prospect because she had a a few years ago cos Gerry never had trousers with turn ups . |