Example sentences of "[vb pp] but [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Steel said it was difficult to estimate when the gene would be located but he thought it would be months rather than years . |
| 2 | Mr Wolski did not want the eagle caught but he knew its chances of escape were very low . |
| 3 | The kids were mortified but I thought it was a real hoot . ’ |
| 4 | We 've slightly digressed but I take your , I take your point . |
| 5 | Country vets are n't easily sickened but I felt my stomach turning . |
| 6 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 7 | Horbury , 55 , said : ‘ I 'm sure Daniel will never forgive me for what I 've done but I hope he does . ’ |
| 8 | No I 've not decided but I know I am I 've done this thing before it 's |
| 9 | long time for dialects to be accepted but I think I think that boundary is giving way |
| 10 | I do n't remember seeing it written but you see it 's , it 's not |
| 11 | I was n't totally prepared but I knew what it was like . |
| 12 | ‘ Grease 2 must be the worst film ever made but they love it ! ’ |
| 13 | Nothing explicit had been said but she knew her relationship with Urquhart had crossed a new frontier : he had become an enemy . |
| 14 | There was a lot more she would like to have said but she knew it was useless . |
| 15 | Constance thought Ludovico the most romantic man she had ever seen but what intrigued her most were his luxuriantly long eye-lashes . |
| 16 | ‘ He could have exploded but I doubt it . ’ |
| 17 | It is not quite the setting the founders of the game envisaged but it has something to be said for it . |
| 18 | and they have these bloody great artics come down and put the stuff in your shed and it was nicked but he said there 's in , there 's about eighty odd hampers nicked worth about sort of , perhaps four thousand |
| 19 | ‘ People are commenting on the spirit we have shown but I think we have also played some good football . ’ |
| 20 | The walls are simply painted but they mix their own paint meticulously , experimenting until they get the colour just right . |
| 21 | It is quite adequately furnished but I wish it to be in really bon ton . |
| 22 | I think one of the main points is not so much the way it 's taught but who teaches it . |
| 23 | I do n't know whether that is widely understood but I think it 's quite and important feature of our proposals . |
| 24 | His knees almost buckled but he fought himself upright and managed to get Trent into focus . |
| 25 | The tea was much appreciated but everyone urged her not to leave the cellar again . |
| 26 | It 's wet through and 75% burnt but I kept it for you . " |
| 27 | Another group of children arrived but they joined their friends by the water without approaching the two men . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ I could have seen him this morning before your lot arrived but I funked it . ’ |
| 29 | The charge has not even been proved but it left him 12 per cent behind Paul Tsongas in the New Hampshire primary . |
| 30 | Dad told her that it was settled but he warned her she must never borrow again He warned Frankie and me as well . |