Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] but [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean y you want what Jim wants but you want another one |
| 2 | And Richard says but you 've just picked that up so you 'll eat it ! |
| 3 | It avoids the pitfalls of other so-called green guides which might tell you which lead-free BMW to buy but which neglect to deliver the most essential message of all about consuming less . |
| 4 | Well then they all come out , everybody , even Dave come out of the union and the only two that were left in it were Jane and Karen on our side and a couple from the warehouse and like there was Judith and I think Sonyou and a couple from the letter shop I , I , I do n't know , I do n't think Elaine went but I think the rest were , yes there were Pam and I think , I think Nigel were , but anyway when Judith comes up about what union money was left , I do n't know where it was left from or how it 's imposed , but they split the |
| 5 | Elsie lived but we know very little about her beyond a few basic facts : she married an older man who was rather irascible and treated her badly ; she disappeared in mysterious circumstances when she was about twenty-six ; her body was discovered a year ago on the bed of the filled-in Loch Craig . |
| 6 | Like Aunty Mary does but they say that down there . |
| 7 | In that sense the traditional notion of Picasso as a more conceptual artist than Matisse holds but I think only in that sense . |
| 8 | ‘ I may not know how Selkirk died but I think I know why . ’ |
| 9 | Taras dies but his prophesy lives on in a resplendent welter of organ ( now assertively prominent ) , chiming timpani and bells . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've always been a great Archers fan but I 've been sworn to secrecy over what I will be doing . ’ |