Example sentences of "[adv] but [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They had been living together but she said she was leaving him , ’ said Mr Ben Hemo . |
| 2 | John tried to hold the family together but it knocked everyone back . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm not saying we all had it together but you say you can er say that about four of 'em would then as that as that they got rid of it the other the others 'd get it you know eventually and th we 'd all have it in the end . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , she did n't like the idea much but she said she 'd try . ’ |
| 5 | She had not liked him very much but she judged him to be one of those unfortunate men who dislike their neighbours even more than they dislike themselves and as such he was to be pitied , plodding on from day to day among his bingo-playing telly-watching parishioners . |
| 6 | We 're hoping he wo n't be there long but they thought he might n't be able to manage in big classes . |
| 7 | Er I 'm frustrated obviously but you know we all all managers go through this at some stage . |
| 8 | obviously but I think you need clearly in the first instance to use that |
| 9 | ‘ He does sometimes respond personally but it depends what letters are about . |
| 10 | ‘ He does sometimes respond personally but it depends what letters are about . |
| 11 | That was bad enough but what made it worse was that I had n't the faintest idea what was wrong with them . |
| 12 | The position was clear enough but she thought she ought to enlarge . |
| 13 | I have friends who worry that I do n't eat well and regularly enough but I suppose it is all a continuation of the habits formed when I was a one-woman farmer . |
| 14 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 15 | And then I thought I would write and suggest that she should suggest herself to tea one day and not only did she have the effrontery to do so but she brought her husband . |
| 16 | So But I like what I 'm taking I think it 's quite a good choice . |
| 17 | not with squirrels , no er I do n't think so but I mean you , you might be able to do something with a vole , or something like that and trap them but I 'm just wondering Stefan could it also be a fox ? |
| 18 | ‘ He never said so but I think he was bothered when I got that big . |
| 19 | I did n't lose her till she was over twenty but So but I think it was desperation because if I 'd had money I should 've had a house full of children because I loved them , you see , I 've always loved children . |
| 20 | so but I wanted something bright in there you know . |
| 21 | So but he thinks I 've got away with it but the pus in my mouth right now |
| 22 | ‘ I would have brought a copy away but they wanted them all . |
| 23 | Yussuf tried to urge her away but she resisted his efforts . |
| 24 | He wanted to rush round straight away but I asked him to be patient . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh I recognised you straight away but I thought you would be a lot taller , ’ said a cuddly-looking woman . |
| 26 | The cart was only a few feet away but he shrugged his shoulders and headed towards it . |
| 27 | She struggled to get away but he pulled her towards him , laughing down at her . |
| 28 | She went to turn away but he caught her . |
| 29 | It has taken a lot of chef 's skills away but it speeds everything up . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ The van was not there at 6pm but I noticed it a little bit later . |